alt Hacker News>Looking at the past few decades […] the world only got stupider, childish and lazier.
insert obligatory throwback quote from some antique dude complaining about the youth
This has been a trope since literally the beginning of civilisation. I don’t think it’s any more true or insightful in the modern era
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wiseowise • yesterday at 8:16 PM
We have a generation which doesn’t know how to use computers anymore, thinks that floppy disk is an emoji and is literally addicted to virtual drugs.
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miltonlost • yesterday at 8:19 PM
It's not just the youth who are lazy and stupid and childish though. (you added in the youth portion.) Do you know who the American President is and how old he is and who then voted for him?
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> I don’t think it’s any more true or insightful in the modern era
hmm, based on what evidence?
Or, if you prefer, based on what appeal to authority? Did you actually quote that authority properly or did you just wing it? Can you properly quote many authorities?
If you don't have good answers to those, then perhaps you have just proved the your opponents point?
Maybe there is a reason people need more compute in their key fob than what our parents/grandparents needed to pilot their ship to the moon?