every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live.
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@rasterweb @Daojoan Every day, as I age and live in this country, under my dystopian government, I feel like I’m living in that movie Idiocracy—except this version is no comedy.
@archivescribe @Daojoan I think the Internet has had two effects: we are more knowledgeable but also *less* knowledgeable. The ability to just “look things up” means we don’t have to learn or remember things.
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@tasharoni @Daojoan the whole "drink more water" meme has partly become a big thing because something like 40% of the US population is prediabetic. Dehydration is one of the symptoms
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@archivescribe @HakeemG @Daojoan
We did write on stone with other stones ...
Slate chalkboards with chalk.
Does that count?
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
@Daojoan dont people realize our phones have alarms for this /j
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@Daojoan they used to sell car batteries with booklet manuals, for complete refit and overhaul of a Lead-Acid 12V DC,~500CCA battery.
Lately, the batteries have idiot warnings, telling customers to NOT break the seal and drink the fluid inside.
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@clusterfcku @Daojoan yeah, don't that give you hope....
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@Daojoan they used to sell car batteries with booklet manuals, for complete refit and overhaul of a Lead-Acid 12V DC,~500CCA battery.
Lately, the batteries have idiot warnings, telling customers to NOT break the seal and drink the fluid inside.
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@clusterfcku @faraiwe @Daojoan
What’s scarier is that those labels needonly be there ‘cos someone DID drink the fluid!
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
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@clusterfcku @faraiwe @Daojoan
What’s scarier is that those labels needonly be there ‘cos someone DID drink the fluid!
@marleysmum @clusterfcku @Daojoan Yup. Every reg written in blood.
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@Daojoan It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the hunter-gatherers from before the Neolithic revolution were way smarter than the average person nowadays tbh.
Afaik there's some evidence that brain sizes have shrunk since people started settling down in cities etc.
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
@Daojoan I think you had me at ”inventing apps”
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
@Daojoan Prior generations were just muddling their way through, willy nilly. We're so much more advanced!! /s
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@archivescribe @HakeemG @Daojoan
We did write on stone with other stones ...
Slate chalkboards with chalk.
Does that count?
@SeanPLynch @HakeemG @Daojoan Of course!
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
They go to jobs of responsibility over the lives of others to earn money to subscribe to those apps to remind them they are also human and used to be capable.
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@MxVerda @Daojoan Well, I'm hardly an expert, but I imagine the lack of pollution in the environment and people getting copious amounts of exercise meant they were, in general, really quite healthy.
Of course it was a much tougher world, with fewer guarantees, more danger etc. But from what I understand the fact it took more effort to stay alive is exactly what made people be more capable.
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
@Daojoan Looks like nearly each comment here approves your assumption
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every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes
@Daojoan I'm kind of the opposite: I keep calling myself stupid and a horrible person, even though there are people worse than I am. It's just that 1: I'm honest about it, and 2: maybe the whole "you're the opposite of what you say" could be true for me
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There's a whole culture of people who grew up in the 80s and 90s bragging on social media about how they used to drink water from the garden hose.
@HakeemG just fyi, it tasted funny
