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@ Nima @leminal.space

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  • What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

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  • "our society has pushed smart phones down our throats"

    smartphones evolved from older methods of just getting through the day. taking notes, listening to music, calandars, date books, libraries, files, methods of communication.

    you make the assumption that everyone is a slave to their device just because it's a smart device.

    some of us were alive before smart phones existed. and we'd prefer not to go back in tech. and would instead prefer the devices we have now.

  • What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

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  • you couldn't pay me to go backwards in time, sorry!

    see I was around before the age of the smartphone. growing up, I thought my cassette Walkman was the most revolutionary thing ever. and when PDAs were new, I would dreaammm about everything being on one electronic device.

    smart phones have given me a freedom that younger me never had.

    i no longer need to carry a notebook/memobook around, because I have powerful software on my phone that not only let's me note-take, but index and SEARCH my own notes. from my pocket.

    i don't need to carry the 3 novels im reading at the moment because they're on the ereader app in my pocket.

    contacts, games, all my news sources, photos, videos, all my media.

    to me, this is still revolutionary tech and it has only improved my life

    i think we are seeing a rise now of adults who were raised as iPad kids who never had to carry all their shit around the way us older individuals have. so they naturally would want to get away from it because they've known no different and they never had to live another way before that point.

    its an understandable mentality from that one standpoint. but no, I will never give up my smart phone. i understand the reasons for those that do, but some of us don't really want to go backwards.

  • Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads

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  • all inputs are just run through hdmi. and I don't use any internet based services on the device at all.

    its basically the same as a computer monitor. as all my media is on computers now.

  • Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads

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  • what updates? this TV can't use internet.

    at all.

    it can't GET updates.

  • Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads

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  • my roku TV can't talk to the internet anymore because it was foolish enough to show me a banner ad while I was gaming

    its a dumb TV now 🥰💕

  • TIL KFC plans to sell chicken flavoured jelly beans.

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  • that scene was so well done it made my stomach hurt a bit. No joke.

  • TIL KFC plans to sell chicken flavoured jelly beans.

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  • are you alright, man? did jellybeans kill your family or something?

  • TIL KFC plans to sell chicken flavoured jelly beans.

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  • i have eaten huge amounts of the buttered popcorn flavored jelly beans. they're delicious.

  • Pikachu

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  • if money is preventing you from buying simple flea medication for your cat, you absolutely should not own a cat.

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  • some of them likely did, given the current theory of how oil happens. dead organic material is dead organic material.

    there's just more vegetation than animal matter.

  • NSFW

    Bag o' Skin

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  • heya just to let you know, this didnt post correctly if you meant to post a cat image here.

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  • Ash Zombie Patrick?

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  • i am a nerd and I don't know pop culture. i am just as confused as you 😭

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  • cutest powdered donut I ever did see =D

  • Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones

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  • no I meant the expectation that people will just comply without complaint. especially if its not been stated otherwise in the lesson plan or syllabus.

    this guy makes it seem like he magically was able to charm people into not using their laptops. and then wrote praises to him for such a thing, and quite frankly I'm certain all of that is embellishment.

    I'm all for being more productive in classrooms, but banning note taking methods that quite a few people rely on is just silly.

    if people want to join classes where note taking is analog only, that's great and I encourage it. but let me know its that way ahead of time so I don't waste my time having to get a refund for the course.

  • Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones

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  • read the entire article yesterday, yes. how can i help?

  • Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones

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  • this entire thing reads like a fantasy. or some reddit thread where "everyone clapped" to me.

    if I was told by a professor on the first day of class which I paid for that I wasn't allowed to use my own note taking method I had been using for decades, I'd just say "No." and if pressed further, I'd take it as high as I needed to. or get a full refund for the class and find another.

    this isn't an elementary school. these aren't children. these are adults.

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  • don't believe me just staaalks.

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  • "How have you managed to not understand this?"

    I am sorry that you are taking this seriously. i meant it to be a light joke. i wanted to write the phrase 'genital jousting'.

    i know they're not males. most people who look them up using a search engine know that as well. just trying to have fun.