I mean it’s not entirely objective for sure but you’re being reductivist.

Yes, or course. In fact, humanism to some degree requires an opposition to anti-human ideas, like intolerance, therefore a humanist is almost implicitly intolerant of intolerance, an earnest practicioner of the paradox.

Neat

This is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. In essence, you’re saying that it would be better if all our material problems didn’t exist. “Yeah, these are essential processes, but it would be better if we didn’t need them, and so we wouldn’t have their problems. Who wants problems?” This is nearly a truism.

Oh yeah it’s doing heavy lifting for sure but the intention is different.

It’s more like: “yeah environmental damage is bad but if we could solve that, there’s really no downsides”

Generally it seems a lot of people on Lemmy I encounter (not you though) seem to struggle to think along those lines of a hypothetical, and it doesn’t help that I don’t think I convey it that well.

And yeah thanks for pointing out how hostile the people are, it really is toxic AF here.

Idk if anything technological change has massively stagnated because exploitation of workers is far cheaper than reducing costs through innovation.

Disposable culture: He predicted throwaway products, and now we have single-use plastics, fast fashion, and gadgets that feel obsolete within a year.

Tech burnout: Toffler said technology would become outdated faster and faster. Today, if you don’t upgrade your phone or update your software, you feel left behind.

Compare the leap between iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4 and iPhone X to whatever the newest one is.

My phone is a Pixel 4a and the only noticeable difference between it and the latest pixel is that this one has a headphone jack and the others don’t and they look like shit and have a worse selfie cam lol.

There used to be a time where upgrading your GPU every year would get you better bang for your buck long-term because improvements were so rapid. Now your 1070Ti can still run most games fairly well and with something like a 3090 you can last another 5 years easily, while the PS5 is barely any different to the PS4.

• Information overload: This term literally came from Future Shock, and if you’ve ever felt exhausted just from scrolling through your feeds or reading the news, you know exactly what he meant.

I don’t get this one at all. I don’t feel exhausted whatsoever, information is actually stimulating. Of course if you only scroll the news you’ll feel depressed because we live in a dystopia, but that’s not information overload, it’s just sad. On the other hand if simply reading anything makes you overwhelmed that just seems like a lack of reading stamina so you can just not do that, or develop that stamina.

Transient relationships: He warned about shallow, fleeting social connections — something social media, dating apps, and global mobility have absolutely amplified.

I don’t think this is a bad thing.

Rent instead of own: Services like Airbnb and Uber fit his prediction that we’d move away from owning things and toward renting everything.

Job instability: He nailed the rise of the gig economy, freelancing, and how fast-changing industries make it hard to stay trained up and secure.

This is all basic capitalism and it’s consequences.

EDIT: not sure what I said that was so controversial as to being deserving of downvotes.

What? Why?

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Email in general is hell. It’s meant to be individual letters but has now become the most unholy form of IM.

To normies of course it is, they don’t even know what the innernette is, they know WiFi though. I’ve even seen people call their cellular signal “phone WiFi” or “5G WiFi” and refer to a Cat5 Ethernet cable as a “WiFi cable”.

Okay this article is dog shit but Google Drive has absolutely awful search and is missing so many basic features even for things like finding out where a file is so I’m not defending Google there, the author makes a bad critique but it’s a thing worth critiquing.

Subjectively, material design in its newest iteration is just also ugly as sin too, android 8 - android 10 was peak android, get these fucking pastels and overly large buttons off my phone and bring back the white/blue simplicity of yesteryear gosh darn it.

He clearly means the opposite

What stock ticker app is this?

Every day the bait gets lower and lower effort

God and I thought the plot of the Fallout TV show was absurd with the “Bud’s Buds” shit but it’s literally real

Lmao that’s a good one.

You don’t need PR for that necessarily but yeah I see your point.

And then you have apps that will use their own DNS silently instead of the NS you point them to…

That’ll just give more seats to reform.

Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

How am I meant to fuck off from work for an hour to go to the store? Even if grocery stores sold electronics which they don’t, everything closes at 6PM latest. On Saturdays it’s 3PM, even if I could carry enough to shop for an entire week ahead on my back.