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    Forget that actually...just try it for a day Then come back and let me know how that goes
    Hah nice try Amigo, I think ~ where's that pic of you sucking a red straw with a cheeky grin; if I remember correctly.

    Anyway been there done that.  Absolutely love it.  That was bait wasn't it?  Are you seriously saying you've never unplugged just for one day?

    But hey I'm actually all in for both technology and nature ~ harmoniously.

    Couldn't think of anything worse than handwriting everything again.  Surely we can intelligently work out how to have both . . . until the day we replug back into our own "network" . . . then heck, we'll be creating books just by thinking about 'em.

    Imagination is on overdrive just thinking about all the new languages we will learn, to accomodate that kind of breakthrough 'cosmic' technology, . . . or perhaps, languages we will remember, as we brush off the cobwebs to browse through the universe, instead of Facebook.

    Yeah it was bait! Guilty as charged. The whole thread is bait really. I could argue for both sides but I thought it might be a little more thought provoking if I supported the one. I did it because I feel we're a little too quick to judge the 1% (sacrilegious I know!), too quick to judge the country (in my case the USA), too quick to judge capitalism (quite an imperfect system but quite a wonderful one as well), and too quick to judge and not fully appreciate innovation.

    P.s. thanks Bill for directing people to the book
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    Funny writing comes up. Last week I caught myself writing a new entry for one of my threads. Before I realized it I had written 13 pages. At some point I'll have to retype it into the computer.

    And if you really wanted me to be grateful for this technology of ours, it would be far easier if there was a voice interface for our computers. Which I don't see any technical reason why it isn't already done. Talking, which humans take as second nature, to our computers would revolutionize our society. There would be no need for apps, we'd talk our computers through what we want. No swiping, editing, punching buttons, turning pages and setting settings - all the while the only talking done is to curse the crappy computer and the un-ituitive app...
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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
    Funny writing comes up. Last week I caught myself writing a new entry for one of my threads. Before I realized it I had written 13 pages. At some point I'll have to retype it into the computer.

    And if you really wanted me to be grateful for this technology of ours, it would be far easier if there was a voice interface for our computers. Which I don't see any technical reason why it isn't already done. Talking, which humans take as second nature, to our computers would revolutionize our society. There would be no need for apps, we'd talk our computers through what we want. No swiping, editing, punching buttons, turning pages and setting settings - all the while the only talking done is to curse the crappy computer and the un-ituitive app...

    Ernie that's a very interesting point. There is that Alexa thing but communication is kind of limited. You can do that with texts too. I use the voice thing when I'm driving and the phone translates. But it is a little strange that it isn't kind of ubiquitous by now. I suspect it will be in the not too distant future

    As far as the writing tho, I would personally not use voice interface. My inner dialogue is much calmer and coherent than my speech. My voice tends to slow me down and confuse me. Plus you'd have to go back and delete all the "uhs", "ums" "ers" and all the rest of it
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    'Computer, delete all 'ums' and 'ers' and 'uhs' from previous dictation'.
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    Mike, you really like Jordan Peterson, now don't you?

    I think being grateful is extremely important, at times I wonder if I am being grateful enough for all the good things in my life despite all the crap I've been through, but I try to be and when I catch myself complaining I try to clear my thoughts. Suffering is relative and everyone has it, as it's a basic function of life. We have more "stuff" now and great technology, hell... I do love technology, but even that is just one thing. Smartphones are amazing too just like the internet is, but do we use the phones or do they use us? Many of us have the "privilege" of not living in desperate conditions, that's true. Should we settle for what we are presented at the moment though?

    No, I don't think so. By that I don't mean we should have some narcissistic entitlement, but we can still demand way more from our so called leaders, because at the moment we have just kinda settled for a certain kind of Huxleyian society in which people are lulled into passive submission and that is now mixed with Orwellian dystopia, I think it's highly disturbing. If this is the best that humanity can do then I'm not very impressed. You can be grateful and at the same time want a better world and a much better system, it's progress.


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    There was a company that just recently had a brand new voice-to-computer interface to write text via the spoken word. It was all ready to be released. But some idiot inside the company decided to give it a test run using Joe Biden as the speaker. .... Messed up the system so bad it will probably be another 4 or 5 years before they can get it straightened out.

    I am enlightened, ............ Oh wait. That's just the police shining their spotlights on me.

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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)

    Forget that actually...just try it for a day Then come back and let me know how that goes
    Quote Posted by Gemma13 (here)
    Hah nice try Amigo, I think ~ where's that pic of you sucking a red straw with a cheeky grin; if I remember correctly.

    Mike, I assumed it was okay to add here because it's elsewhere on the forum. Let me know if you want it blurred or removed.


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    Quote Posted by Orph (here)
    There was a company that just recently had a brand new voice-to-computer interface to write text via the spoken word. It was all ready to be released. But some idiot inside the company decided to give it a test run using Joe Biden as the speaker. .... Messed up the system so bad it will probably be another 4 or 5 years before they can get it straightened out.

    So good. So, so good. That chuckle went straight to the gut and is percolating nicely. Thank you.

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    Forget that actually...just try it for a day Then come back and let me know how that goes
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    Hah nice try Amigo, I think ~ where's that pic of you sucking a red straw with a cheeky grin; if I remember correctly.

    Mike, I assumed it was okay to add here because it's elsewhere on the forum. Let me know if you want it blurred or removed.

    Yep that's the one. Thanks Paula. You are such a treasure

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    Wind, I am an unabashed Peterson fanboy, and I make no bones about it But I wasn't thinking about him so much when I started the thread - I was thinking of Viktor Frankl. And I was thinking of a friend who recently annoyed me.

    It's perfectly reasonable to want more and better from our government and society. I agree that there's some balance be struck between appreciation for what we have and desiring improvement. Absolutely. But the people that grate on me are the ones incessantly complaining, the ones that don't know about anything that happened more than 5 mins ago, the ones who have no historical context, the ones who offer nothing but empty grievances, the ones who see "oppression" in everything, the ones who ridicule their predecessors and lack any sort of appreciation for them, the ones who offer nothing and expect everything, and so on.

    Thanks for the vids. I'll watch them on my break.

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    Quote Posted by RunningDeer (here)
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    Forget that actually...just try it for a day Then come back and let me know how that goes
    Quote Posted by Gemma13 (here)
    Hah nice try Amigo, I think ~ where's that pic of you sucking a red straw with a cheeky grin; if I remember correctly.

    Mike, I assumed it was okay to add here because it's elsewhere on the forum. Let me know if you want it blurred or removed.


    I'm not seeing anything because I'm at work and they firewall most pics and videos. I think Gemma was talking about an old avatar of mine? One at a dark pub with my buddy Jay? It's okay to include it here, but in the interest of transparency it's an older picture. I'm much fitter, tanner, and full of spirit there than I am now. This is obvious if you saw a recent pic I used as an avatar (very briefly) to demonstrate to Dennis the hair regrowth laser helmet I wasted $1000 on. Considerably chubbier, paler, grizzlier, and balder these days..sad to say

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    What? You are Satan, and I'm the 1%? We are in bizarro world! hahaha


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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    For many it will be their smartphone or laptop. For others a car. Forget that actually...just try it for a day
    I don't own a smartphone
    I don't own a cellphone
    I don't own a laptop
    I don't own a car
    My TV hasn't worked for over a year
    Maybe I'll get a new TV
    Or maybe not

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    Then come back and let me know how that goes
    So far so good
    But sometimes I have to borrow a cellphone from people like Bill Ryan


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    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    What? You are Satan, and I'm the 1%? We are in bizarro world! hahaha

    I swear ..as I was just responding to Paula, I was thinking to myself, it's just a matter of time before Dennis arrives and kicks my ass on my own thread and forces me into an embarrassing exile

    But I'm ready for you! ( no I'm not)

    Thanks for not doing that.

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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    For many it will be their smartphone or laptop. For others a car. Forget that actually...just try it for a day
    I don't own a smartphone
    I don't own a cellphone
    I don't own a laptop
    I don't own a car
    My TV hasn't worked for over a year
    Maybe I'll get a new TV
    Or maybe not

    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    Then come back and let me know how that goes
    So far so good
    But sometimes I have to borrow a cellphone from people like Bill Ryan



    I admire you sir! I'm impressed by that. I really am.

    But you likely have a landline phone?

    You likely travel by bus or uber?

    You likely have a desktop computer?

    Yes? No?

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    These magical stones and carriages, and self posting letters that arrive in the twinkling of an eye. The rivers of stone, the electronic infrastructure and its friend - the invisible layers. Magic items can be cursed though. Possibly a mis-label, because a fool with a magic item might look like a cursed item. But forget that, because we could play this both ways; some cursed magic items drain your sole. They hurt you but you use them over anything else. Some try to dominate your consciousness. You always know where your cursed magic items are. I certainly do

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    Uber? What's that?


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    That was the photo that got Borden so jealous and combative back in the Through the Looking Glass Group days.
    The best year of my life was spent on a mountain in Virginia, living in a commune with no running water, using coal stoves for heat.
    We didn't have electricity at first, but we did get that eventually, and used sparingly.
    We shared one Jeep to get up and down a very steep gravel road to get into town for supplies.
    Overall, living in touch with Nature made us much healthier and happier people.

    I think Nature has her own way of addressing so much damage to Earth, with cycles that basically force a return to a cleaner, more balanced ecosystem, whether humankind likes it or not...

    I wonder if the elite haven't been programmed by what Clif High calls "the Bug" (ETs--specifically Mantids) to think that they MUST develop interstellar travel, and that's why they have pushed the technology agenda so hard for so long.


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    Forget that actually...just try it for a day Then come back and let me know how that goes
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    Hah nice try Amigo, I think ~ where's that pic of you sucking a red straw with a cheeky grin; if I remember correctly.

    Mike, I assumed it was okay to add here because it's elsewhere on the forum. Let me know if you want it blurred or removed.

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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    Historically speaking, it's true.

    The only appropriate attitude most of us should have is gratitude. We stand on the shoulders of giants, the giants that have provided all these wonderful things we have and enjoy...and all so many of us do is piss and moan about this or that. I'm just as guilty. I think one of our greatest crisis' involves a profound lack of perspective and gratitude.
    Mike this post is probably the most well written, picture of humility, and honesty I have seen in quite some time... I applaud you for writing it... We do live in a world that has been created by those before us, who handed down wonderful conveniences to make our lives much easier.

    Sadly, our work load has increased as well, so those modern amenities really do not seem so 'special' these days. strange how that happens. I could imagine being a house wife in the 50's, not needing to work as the spouse made enough to support the family, allowing the wife to stay home to raise the kids, while having all of these wonderful things appear... while we have those luxuries now, we are also now expected to work right alongside the men, usually for less, for the same amount of hours, or more... and still expected to be the domestic ones who maintain the home on top of that...

    I think this is why more men are the family chefs these days, because they tend to destroy laundry, and fold towels poorly hahaha... but one person cannot do it all, unless everyone pitches in...

    But I do agree, we are the benefactors of some incredible talent. Financially however, very few of us are in that 1%, or those that hold all the wealth, but we certainly are not without much of anything, should we need it. Sadly mankind FAILS in that regard in my opinion, when we still have slavery, human trafficking, and people who can't get access to good clean drinking water, and people go hungry, dying of simple conditions that have already been resolved....

    I hope some day, before I die, we figure THAT out and fix it, otherwise, I fear I may go to my grave feeling that humanity are a selfish species, and spoiled and unworthy of the true gifts they have to share, but have been convinced they shouldn't unless someone "Pays for it".

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    Mike, seems more like the point you're making is that we ought to be grateful to the 1%, the theoretical progenitors of the spoils of technology that we enjoy. Or maybe a better title to support your position could be, "You are all complicit with the 1%." But I don't think you mean we are all multi-billionaires, or have that level of control over the national and international agenda that the top financial 1% actually do. You know about the paper called The Princeton Report* where they show that US citizens have ZERO input in US domestic and US foreign policy, so you certainly can't be blaming us all (and yourself, admirably) for the outcome/effects of policy we cannot affect. And, it doesn't sound like we are being asked to share in the credit of the workers that the 1% hired to create these products or services that we enjoy. I think we should be grateful to those workers. I think you make an excellent point about being grateful, but do you want me to be grateful to the engineers and artists and wizards that actually created the products/industries/arts or does that have to include "The 1%" billionaire heads of the corporations where the engineers and artists and wizards happen to work?


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