giving boomers access to the internet was a fucking mistake

[nagirin@heckin.how]

@coolbean Yeahhhh my parents are gen X and they're cooked too. The only person in my family that isn't absorbed by screens is my grandma who I guess technically falls under silent generation

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@nagirin one time she wanted to try kcd because my big brother gushed about that game a lot (rightly so) but she just.... could not figure out the button prompts right on the screen and gaaaaaah

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@nagirin its a difficult first 3d game but oh my fucking god we didnt make it through the tutorial even with me occasionally subbing in when she got lost

[lizzy@social.vlhl.dev]

@nagirin @coolbean my grandparents are absorbed in facebook and AI nonsense meanwhile my gen X parents and younger gen Z brother are luddites (based)

[nagirin@heckin.how]

@lizzy @coolbean Luddism isn't based.

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@lizzy @nagirin im a semi luddite at this point. i only use my laptop because thats the only device not controlled by an evil megacorporation

[lizzy@social.vlhl.dev]

@nagirin @coolbean u know that means anti AI and other techbro bullshit in the modern sense right

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@lizzy @nagirin tbh id call that neoluddism and a pretty half arsed version at that

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@lizzy @nagirin like im horrified to have to use this word but thats the watered down normie version of luddism

[nagirin@heckin.how]

@lizzy @coolbean That is more your warped perception of luddism. Luddism is a very specific petite-bourgeois movement to protect artisanal labour against centralisation and effectivisation of capital. Luddites weren't against technology they were against the factories threatening their artisanal craft. It's a reactionary line of thinking.

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@nagirin @lizzy tbf factories replacing artisans has been a disaster for humanity and this is WAY too close to quoting the unabomber's manifesto