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Mar 10, 2022 - 7:39 AM
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Ado
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One of my least favorite things, I am driving down the highway and I can see, plainly, the driver behind me looking down at their phone, not for a second or two, but looking. I always try to change lanes to have them NOT behind me, and then, yes, sure enough, there they are as I am across from them- looking down, often WAY down with the phone in their hand. Yes, we have laws that make it illegal, but lots of people drive this way everyday. And they end up eventually having spectacular crashes and hurting and killing people. Will people stop doing it. Nope
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Mar 10, 2022 - 7:44 AM
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One of my least favorite things, I am driving down the highway and I can see, plainly, the driver behind me looking down at their phone, not for a second or two, but looking. I always try to change lanes to have them NOT behind me, and then, yes, sure enough, there they are as I am across from them- looking down, often WAY down with the phone in their hand. Yes, we have laws that make it illegal, but lots of people drive this way everyday. And they end up eventually having spectacular crashes and hurting and killing people. Will people stop doing it. Nope
You don't know how many times I'm behind someone at a red light who won't move because their eyes are on the phone instead of the traffic. Or I'm stuck behind someone going extremely slow and when I finally get around them I see they're chatting away on their cell phone. It's very annoying. But as you say, it can lead to far worse situations like accidents and lose of life.
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Several years ago while swimming in the ocean after dark, we experienced a bioluminescent plankton bloom. It was, we thought, amazing and thrilling and stupendous. So amazing and thrilling and stupendous, that we rushed home to drag more people out to see it. (about a 12 min drive). A young couple from the mid-west was renting a room and had never seen the ocean before so we took them to see this miracle of nature. Your footprints in the sand would light up behind you as you walked. The water would light up around you as you moved in the water. The waves would be lit from within. All movement resulted in a glow-in-the-dark, lime green, glow-stik glow.
The young couple, I would say late 20's, had their cell phone and we assumed they were taking pictures of it. But they had found images of bioluminescent sea life and declared they didn't need to see it in "real" life since there are pictures of it on their phone if they ever want to see it. They never really looked up from their phone. He had just been hired as a teacher.
We apologized and took them back. Then went back to the ocean again.
It did raise interesting philosophical questions that have since been repeated. Do I experience the Real world by seeing it? Or is the real world located inside a cell phone and all real experience occurs there? Perhaps he was teaching me the Hindu concept of maya. Life and earthly experience are illusion.
If only I had known earlier. I don't need to work. I have this picture of other people working. I don't need to eat, I have this picture of food.
They were not kids but I encounter the same reaction with kids.
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But they had found images of bioluminescent sea life and declared they didn't need to see it in "real" life since there are pictures of it on their phone if they ever want to see it. They never really looked up from their phone. He had just been hired as a teacher.
Yup.
That's EXACTLY the type of person you want for a teacher.
And, hey--no need to actually go on vacations anymore if there are pix of vacations on the net. Neat!
Perhaps even no need for a cellphone itself if you have the picture of a cellphone.
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I have shamelessly, SHAMELESSLY sold out Paul Ettinger for the sake of... of I-don’t-know-what.  ]
Just when you think David of Barkley can sink no lower, he sinks. Is there no depths to which he won't plumb? (see the double negative makes it funny while still retaining the ocean imagery.)
And who knighted him? Not the Queen. Probably that Phillip rogue.
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Saw some asshat in a large pick-up driving through a parking lot, with his head down and totally absorbed with the phone.
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Sep 17, 2022 - 7:39 AM
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Warlok
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Several years ago while swimming in the ocean after dark, we experienced a bioluminescent plankton bloom. It was, we thought, amazing and thrilling and stupendous. So amazing and thrilling and stupendous, that we rushed home to drag more people out to see it. (about a 12 min drive). A young couple from the mid-west was renting a room and had never seen the ocean before so we took them to see this miracle of nature. Your footprints in the sand would light up behind you as you walked. The water would light up around you as you moved in the water. The waves would be lit from within. All movement resulted in a glow-in-the-dark, lime green, glow-stik glow.
The young couple, I would say late 20's, had their cell phone and we assumed they were taking pictures of it. But they had found images of bioluminescent sea life and declared they didn't need to see it in "real" life since there are pictures of it on their phone if they ever want to see it. They never really looked up from their phone. He had just been hired as a teacher.
We apologized and took them back. Then went back to the ocean again.
It did raise interesting philosophical questions that have since been repeated. Do I experience the Real world by seeing it? Or is the real world located inside a cell phone and all real experience occurs there? Perhaps he was teaching me the Hindu concept of maya. Life and earthly experience are illusion.
If only I had known earlier. I don't need to work. I have this picture of other people working. I don't need to eat, I have this picture of food.
They were not kids but I encounter the same reaction with kids.
That's sad.
Photos or videos of things are the go-to make-do surrogate - the fall-back, the next best thing - to actually seeing/doing. Some things have hazard associated with them i.e. volcano observation, sky-diving, so sometimes the surrogate is preferable. But bereft of hazard... I'd rather be able to actually stand next to/on the Temple Of Baalbek, to actually be in mountains in Switzerland, or to actually stand under a skeleton of Spinosaurus Aegypticus.
Spielberg may be on to something with Ready Player One.
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Sep 17, 2022 - 8:20 AM
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Solium
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Several years ago while swimming in the ocean after dark, we experienced a bioluminescent plankton bloom. It was, we thought, amazing and thrilling and stupendous. So amazing and thrilling and stupendous, that we rushed home to drag more people out to see it. (about a 12 min drive). A young couple from the mid-west was renting a room and had never seen the ocean before so we took them to see this miracle of nature. Your footprints in the sand would light up behind you as you walked. The water would light up around you as you moved in the water. The waves would be lit from within. All movement resulted in a glow-in-the-dark, lime green, glow-stik glow.
The young couple, I would say late 20's, had their cell phone and we assumed they were taking pictures of it. But they had found images of bioluminescent sea life and declared they didn't need to see it in "real" life since there are pictures of it on their phone if they ever want to see it. They never really looked up from their phone. He had just been hired as a teacher.
We apologized and took them back. Then went back to the ocean again.
It did raise interesting philosophical questions that have since been repeated. Do I experience the Real world by seeing it? Or is the real world located inside a cell phone and all real experience occurs there? Perhaps he was teaching me the Hindu concept of maya. Life and earthly experience are illusion.
If only I had known earlier. I don't need to work. I have this picture of other people working. I don't need to eat, I have this picture of food.
They were not kids but I encounter the same reaction with kids.
Oh its even better on the smartphone because you can add Instagram smilies and animated gifs.
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Sep 17, 2022 - 8:23 AM
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Solium
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Several years ago while swimming in the ocean after dark, we experienced a bioluminescent plankton bloom. It was, we thought, amazing and thrilling and stupendous. So amazing and thrilling and stupendous, that we rushed home to drag more people out to see it. (about a 12 min drive). A young couple from the mid-west was renting a room and had never seen the ocean before so we took them to see this miracle of nature. Your footprints in the sand would light up behind you as you walked. The water would light up around you as you moved in the water. The waves would be lit from within. All movement resulted in a glow-in-the-dark, lime green, glow-stik glow.
The young couple, I would say late 20's, had their cell phone and we assumed they were taking pictures of it. But they had found images of bioluminescent sea life and declared they didn't need to see it in "real" life since there are pictures of it on their phone if they ever want to see it. They never really looked up from their phone. He had just been hired as a teacher.
We apologized and took them back. Then went back to the ocean again.
It did raise interesting philosophical questions that have since been repeated. Do I experience the Real world by seeing it? Or is the real world located inside a cell phone and all real experience occurs there? Perhaps he was teaching me the Hindu concept of maya. Life and earthly experience are illusion.
If only I had known earlier. I don't need to work. I have this picture of other people working. I don't need to eat, I have this picture of food.
They were not kids but I encounter the same reaction with kids.
That's sad.
Photos or videos of things are the go-to make-do surrogate - the fall-back, the next best thing - to actually seeing/doing. Some things have hazard associated with them i.e. volcano observation, sky-diving, so sometimes the surrogate is preferable. But bereft of hazard... I'd rather be able to actually stand next to/on the Temple Of Baalbek, to actually be in mountains in Switzerland, or to actually stand under a skeleton of Spinosaurus Aegypticus.
Spielberg may be on to something with Ready Player One.
Indeed sad. There's so many wonderful things to experience in the real world. Someone once said they hated fall. You only need to see the leaves turn colors once. After that who cares. I love the changing of the seasons.
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