tiago 13h ago
JA Westenberg
every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
9:33pmTypefully
Show threadHakeemG15h ago

@Daojoan

There's a whole culture of people who grew up in the 80s and 90s bragging on social media about how they used to drink water from the garden hose.

Show threadArchiveScribe13h ago

@HakeemG @Daojoan Back in the 60s and 70s, we rode to school in the backs of dinosaurs and wrote on stone with chisel in class…and we liked it!

I’m just kidding, but yeah, I admit, older folk have a bad of habit of being overly nostalgic sometimes.

Show threadSean Lynch10h ago

@archivescribe @HakeemG @Daojoan

We did write on stone with other stones ...

Slate chalkboards with chalk.

Does that count?

Show threadArchiveScribe7h ago
@SeanPLynch @HakeemG @Daojoan Of course!
Show threadNomdeb11h ago
@HakeemG @Daojoan OMG I can still smell and taste that rubber water. :)
Show threadFaraiwe15h ago

@Daojoan they used to sell car batteries with booklet manuals, for complete refit and overhaul of a Lead-Acid 12V DC,~500CCA battery.

Lately, the batteries have idiot warnings, telling customers to NOT break the seal and drink the fluid inside.

Show threadCluster Fcku9h ago
@faraiwe @Daojoan There also exists washrooms with placards above the urinals warning patrons not to drink the water in it. (This is not a joke.)
Show threadFaraiwe9h ago
@clusterfcku @Daojoan yeah, don't that give you hope....
Show threadTaya Nielsen9h ago

@clusterfcku @faraiwe @Daojoan

What’s scarier is that those labels needonly be there ‘cos someone DID drink the fluid!

Show threadFaraiwe9h ago
@marleysmum @clusterfcku @Daojoan Yup. Every reg written in blood.
Show threadTaya Nielsen9h ago

@faraiwe @Daojoan @faraiwe @Daojoan

What’s scarier is that those labels need only be there ‘cos someone DID drink the fluid.

Show threadMagnus Idode15h ago
@Daojoan
Ai that prays to God on our behalf.
Show threadLAUREN14h ago

@Daojoan

I think we are the dumbest. Our survival instincts are gone and we create nothing of value to the continuation of humankind. We are putting every resource into something called Artificial Intelligence

'nough said

Show threadMartijn Frazer14h ago

@Daojoan It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the hunter-gatherers from before the Neolithic revolution were way smarter than the average person nowadays tbh.

Afaik there's some evidence that brain sizes have shrunk since people started settling down in cities etc.

Show threadMx Verda8h ago
@Tijn @Daojoan even with better nutrition and fewer infections? (Well, fewer parasitic infections. More viral infections.)
Show threadMartijn Frazer3h ago

@MxVerda @Daojoan Well, I'm hardly an expert, but I imagine the lack of pollution in the environment and people getting copious amounts of exercise meant they were, in general, really quite healthy.

Of course it was a much tougher world, with fewer guarantees, more danger etc. But from what I understand the fact it took more effort to stay alive is exactly what made people be more capable.

Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕14h ago
@Daojoan every subsequent generation is probably dumber than the previous...
Show threadArchiveScribe13h ago
@rasterweb @Daojoan Every day, as I age and live in this country, under my dystopian government, I feel like I’m living in that movie Idiocracy—except this version is no comedy.
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕11h ago
@archivescribe @Daojoan I think the Internet has had two effects: we are more knowledgeable but also *less* knowledgeable. The ability to just “look things up” means we don’t have to learn or remember things.
Show threadOli14h ago
@Daojoan
Show threadprozacchiwawa14h ago
@Daojoan apps to remind us to use other apps less
Show threadJames14h ago

@Daojoan

And a new generation of apps which may decide to kill us.

Show threadLooking for explanations…13h ago

@Daojoan

Breathe out 2, 3, 4….

Show threadMaria J12h ago
@Daojoan Confession, I like the app that reminds me to drink water. I had no idea I was not taking in enough fluids.
Show threadfraggle11h ago
@tasharoni @Daojoan the whole "drink more water" meme has partly become a big thing because something like 40% of the US population is prediabetic. Dehydration is one of the symptoms
Show threadpancakes🔜Bed10h ago
@Daojoan dont people realize our phones have alarms for this /j
Show threadpinkmarie9h ago
@Daojoan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Show threadkit8h ago
@Daojoan I think you had me at ”inventing apps”
Show threadStrfnurfn7h ago
@Daojoan Prior generations were just muddling their way through, willy nilly. We're so much more advanced!! /s
Show threadHot Dog Water, will not comply7h ago

@Daojoan

They go to jobs of responsibility over the lives of others to earn money to subscribe to those apps to remind them they are also human and used to be capable.

Show threadjlapoutre2h ago
@Daojoan was strongly reminded about this when watching the clumsy maneuvering of the #Artemis2 astronauts in their Orion capsule. Way more comfortable but technologically not any better than the original from more than 50 years ago
Show threadThe_Roman2h ago
@Daojoan Looks like nearly each comment here approves your assumption