But we’re in a plutocracy, not a democracy.

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I think it’s literally because they don’t have the mental stamina to deal with it. If they want to know anything, they just look it up and follow the steps. There’s no resilience or practice in retaining lots of information.

For example, I had to memorise a lot of phone numbers and addresses just in case I left my address book at home. I had to remember where things were so I wouldn’t get lost because I didn’t have access to a digital map.

I also went back to university and encountered all of this. I was floored when my classmate went to a YouTube video of someone reading the GitHub manual page rather than reading it themselves.

My friend who works with two Gen Z colleagues are absolutely addicted to their phones and get massive anxiety when talking to someone on the phone (which is a core part of their job). They also get huge anxiety with admitting that they’ve made a mistake.

We’ve failed an entire generation as a society.

My friend is lecturing second year engineering students and they were all allowed one sheet at A4 paper for a cheat sheet (which they had to submit with their exam). One sheet was full of photos of the whiteboard taken from her phone. Suffice to say, the entire class failed the exam. Not because of the photos but because they didn’t know how to learn.

The average Gen Z are truly going to get smashed when they enter the workforce. The tech industry has stunted their psychological growth by a decade.

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Lemonade stands

Allow private servers so you can control who plays.

If Nigel loses, does that mean that the fraud/money investigation against him is dropped indefinitely?

Well… The fact that I’m not a US citizen is a massive hurdle, for starters.

That’s apparently fixed now. I have to use windows for work and they finally fixed that stupid issue in one of the last couple of updates. It’s still extremely painful to use though.

I suppose it’s the fault of the constituents for continuing to vote the same person in over and over again. Or is it that you don’t have any other choices?

How TF do you have a 29 year incumbent??

I’m on Lemmy because I’m anti capitalist and generally support progressive policies such as circular economic practices and sustainability. I’m against AI because it goes against everything I mentioned. The gains aren’t worth the cost.

Honestly… This is where leaders should be elected or fired by the workers themselves.

Maybe Ten Bells

Solo dev who was pretty sad that it had slow traction on release because he put so much work into the game. I can see it now has over 500 reviews, so perhaps he got the reaction he wanted!

“Cruzzant” out in regional Australia

Yes. Websites were dead easy to make. I could fit all my music onto one floppy disk because I saved them as midis. There were no standards for sound or graphics cards so everything played different on different computers. You could access information without needing to sign up because emails were just emerging. You could get an email address with a name you wanted. Adobe hadn’t bought Macromedia yet. Autodesk hadn’t bought 3ds max yet. Animated gifs. Flying toaster screensavers. In fact, the screensavers had sound! Would give you a great attack if you left your speakers on.

I visited the US 3 years ago and tipping was a bloody pain in the bum. It added probably 20min to our meal as the waiters took a while to get change. Further, asking every 15 minutes how our meal was going was quite exhausting; mainly because we knew it was performative for more tips. We tipped 20% each time but it’s really, really frustrating not knowing the price up front.

Back home, I’m used to paying up front and then leaving as soon as we’re done. Waiters leave you alone, unless you’re a regular, and ask you how the meal was at the till if you pay after.

My take is that capitalism is the cause.

I hate gift cards but work gives them out for our birthdays each year. I always request games related gift cards. To hear that Steam are no longer selling them is disappointing considering that it’s my main gaming platform.