What's your 'old person' trait?
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if it helps people like me have a 50% suicide attempt rate by my age
..I'm 18
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I refuse to use TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. I only have Facebook because 90% of my friends and family are there and it's the primary way I stay in touch with them, but I'd like to get rid of that too.
Regarding TikTok, I was serving in the US military as an IT sysadmin when it became popular. But we discovered that the app embedded itself deep in your phone's hardware, granted itself full administrative access to your phone, then started trickling all your data to servers in China. And you couldn't fully uninstall it once you'd installed it once. Your phone was completely compromised if you ever installed that app.
It became a huge security risk and we were told to never use it. It was a horrifyingly effective spy tool China could use to easily collect data on us. That's why President Biden pushed to ban TikTok in the US.
But of course, TikTok became super popular among our civilian population and they refused to give it up, which led to a lot of pushback against the ban. It never held, and now people are still using it and sharing all their private information with China.
Meta does something similar with Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp, but we at least can keep tabs on what they're doing with your private data, since they're an American company. They mostly use your information to build advertising profiles on you, to better catch your attention with ads. But that information could easily be used against you if federal organizations wanted to. ICE could use it to identify non-white Americans and their daily habits and easily intercept them.
Still, if you don't want your private information being potentially stolen by these companies, it's best to dump these programs. I don't install them on my phone or tablet and I keep Facebook's website isolated on my computer, since it likes to read other open windows and use those sites to fine-tune advertising data for you.
Google has turned into one of these companies that collects data on everything you do, so I'm in the middle of de-Googling my life right now. But it's really hard because they're embedded everywhere.
We're living in a dark time where the only way to prevent corporations and governments from collecting information on you is to stay offline. Which is nearly impossible nowadays. We don't get privacy in this modern Information Age. Not while Capitalism is still a thing.
These days I only go on facebook for marketplace and a few community groups.
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Is this an old person trait? Consider me a curmudgeon then.
Anything invented before you turn 15 is just how the world works.
Anything invented between the ages of 15 and 30 is revolutionary and groundbreaking and you should pursue a career in it.
Anything invented after you turn 30 goes against the natural order of things.
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Why is every sentence a question? This comes off as defensive.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's more of a take your pick as to which of those is my "old" trait.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Some part of my body always hurts. Mostly back, intestines, and joints, but these feet of mine have been finding their footing in this game lately too. Life is pain ;(
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The streak of white in my beard?
The fact that 75% of my media consumption is things I've already seen before?
I can maintain eye contact in a conversation and at no point do I want to fuck/fight the other person nor do I believe they want to fuck/fight me?
I can maintain friendships with people who do not share all of my views on things, with a select view even having opposing views?
Comfort wins over style every time, with zero exceptions?
I'm confused by the fuck/fight portion. Is it normal to want to fuck or fight every person who maintains eye contact? Have I been unknowingly threatening/coming into all of my work colleagues?
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I don't own a smart phone and never have. Miss me with that Fisher-Price technology.
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I upgraded from a normal electric range to an induction range... OMG the difference!
It really is fucking amazing. I was always a
gas guy but induction is a game changer -
I stopped caring about a lot of pop culture stuff coming out. I don't hate it. But like it used to capture my interest. Literally never heard of Lebooboo's until SP27E4.
Basic Fuckenomics I guess.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
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Cast iron and stainless both work fine. Glass not at all.
Here's what you can do if you want to experiment without jumping in with both feet like I did:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KSNTSVR
You can get a single induction burner for a little more than $100.
Do you make a lot of stuff that involves boiling water? Tea? Noodles? Other pasta? These things boil a pot of water in 2 minutes. Not kidding.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I don't care if what I say makes someone upset
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I upgraded from a normal electric range to an induction range... OMG the difference!
Where I rent now sadly has induction as well. Really miss gas.
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What's SP27E4?
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70s. Maybe some 80s, too.
1870s that is
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wrote last edited by [email protected]
My grandpa was infamous for forgetting which of his three childen he wanted to speak to, so he just used to shout "ChrisEricJen" when he wanted one of them to turn up. He'd then send away the ones he didnt need.
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Where I rent now sadly has induction as well. Really miss gas.
One less monthly bill though... unless there are other gas appliances.
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Gen Z here. I think you'd be surprised to find that gen z generally hates ai slop. Specifically the slop, most people are ok with some AI use.
For llms It's seen the same way I imagine search engines were (I was born after Google existed). People can just find an answer for their problem instead of searching for it in a book or asking someone. This can either be amazing for learning new things, or for cheating. My professors even tell me to USE ai to learn, just know how to actually use it to help learn rather than get the correct answer and be done with it.
I can't bring myself to trust any information from LLMs that I don't already know.
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Anything invented before you turn 15 is just how the world works.
Anything invented between the ages of 15 and 30 is revolutionary and groundbreaking and you should pursue a career in it.
Anything invented after you turn 30 goes against the natural order of things.
I don't think AI (aka LLMs) is / are against the natural order, I just think they are a terrible tool for work that requires thinking. And there are a lot of people, including medical professionals, who don't care enough to verify what is presented to them. At least if I use AI generated code, I can test it.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I am incredibly difficult to buy gifts for because I have everything I want, which is not much at all.
