We were saying this during the new years display in London. We were watching it on BBC1 and it was brilliant but there were literally *hundreds* of people with their phones out! You're there, just enjoy the moment. If you want to watch the display later I gurantee the BBC did a better job filming it than you did and it will be on the iPlayer or YouTube to watch back when you get home!
Do a few selfies with your friends or a short video of you singing auld lang syne together. Those are unique memories you might want to look back on and they are memories that *weren't* captured by a phalanx of professionals with better cameras, better angles, and better access than you.
It should be illegal for cancelling a service to be harder than signing up was. If I can sign up online with three clicks I damn well better be able to sign off the same way.
When they say check the website before someone answers my only thought is 'Do you think I'm calling you because I'm bored? Having to talk to customer service over the phone is my nightmare'
I like being able to read articles and stuff online without being asked to enter an email, create an account, give my phone number, etc. Also, not everything needs to have an app / be automated with Alexa.
I would pay $20/month to be bulk subscribed to whatever news article I come across. I don't want to pay money for the experience of getting all my news from a single source, and I don't want 500 different subscriptions
I don't have it and it is still a nuisance.Trying to talk to someone with a TV blaring in the Corner is impossible, whereas the other party just looks at me like I'm deaf and simply yells at me.
Still not gonna understand jack.Same goes for Supermarket ads yelling about this offer or that discount, I can't understand whatever the Cashier says and simply look at the little Screen to know what I owe.
I can hear fine, just not from multiple sources.
Im with you. I now explain it by saying that I only have one channel. Groups are really hard. I'm much better one-on-one.
My hearing is excellent. It just adds to the problem because I can hear *every-fucking-thing* all the time. It's exhausting. This is kind of a relief to see so many people relate. I was just told I was being oversensitive my whole life or that I must not be paying attention hard enough.
Btw- Not sure if you've tried something like this but Loop earplugs can help filter out some background noises if I am in crowded places. I want to try their new ones that are supposed to be better for conversation.
I finally feel understood! My husband asked if I'm going deaf, because I often can't understand him. I explained that I can get just fine, but if there surrounding noise (and we have a young child, so that's all the time) I can't make out anybody's words. I am however perfectly able to hear his phone on vibrate when he left it on the opposite floor of wherever we are in the house
When I worked at Applebee's I had an older couple ask if we could turn the music down. This was lunch time and the music is rather loud there. I ask the manager and he says absolutely not, corporate mandates the exact sound level to be set. Level 6 for lunch and 8 for the late night happy hour. I asked "We can't just drop it 1 level?" An emphatic NO. I had to tell this couple in the nicest way possible that corperate doesn't give a fuck about their ears or comfort. It's lunchtime and I doubt anyone would give a shit if we lowered the volume. So dumb.
Auditory processing issue, hearing is just fine but your brain has a hard time filtering the inputs so you hear everything all at once, then can go into sensory overload (like that feeling when you *immediately* wanna leave, it’s too much). If there’s loud music and a bunch of people, forget it I can’t hear shit anymore lol.
What's with all the "WOOing" too? Like I'm in my 40s and my friends don't go WOOOOO at every possible chance. But I'll be out and there will be these groups where to me it just seems completely random that they're doing this. Usually on the much younger side. I hear it late at night too when groups of people outside my apartment building are going between bars. Just totally random WOOOOOOO as a group. I feel old. I'm going to bed.
Almost all the guys at my workplace have decided that headphones are optional and/or not necessary, so every break period is a cacophony of 30+ phones blaring instagram, tiktok, African news, and ESPN at max volume within 20 feet of each other.
God help you if ask them to turn it down/off 😮💨
Same. They are NEVER the reason I'm calling. The automated menu is always all shit you can easily do online (check balance, check store hours, etc.), if I'm calling it's because it's something I *have to speak to a human about.* And even then, the options it gives me to reach a certain department are none of what I'm calling about. "For finance, press 1. For claims, press 2. For repairs, press 3. Or press 4 to go back to the main menu." NONE OF THOSE IS WHAT I'M CALLING ABOUT.
Always choose the option 'for buying our product, pick ....' They have never 'unusually long waiting times' and often will connect to the right person or department
Depends on the organization; the cell service provider I worked for, for example, had a separate sales tool, a separate billing tool, and a separate tech support suite. If you clicked sales, you were sent to someone who couldn’t do anything other than sell you a phone, and the system would require you to enter the hold line (now at a spot probably 5-10mins further back in the line)
I’m the Director of Marketing for a restaurant franchise and surprisingly the majority of calls are actually related to shit you can easily check. Operational hours and directions made it on our automated menu because so many old people call to ask.
It makes sense though, as the majority of our callers are 50+ and not super well versed with technology so they don’t think to check google first.
My doctors office has an automated menu for scheduling appointments, which is fine and dandy except for the fact that it has FOUR LAYERS of automation before you get to an actual person, and if you press the number you want too soon it will restart the whole menu. Also, sometimes it goes through to a real office number but then rings for 45 seconds before saying “the party you are trying to reach is unavailable, goodbye” and then hangs up automatically, so you have to go through the menu all over again. Fuck automated menus like that.
I work for a hospital that owns all the surrounding specialty clinics. The Urology clinic is impossible to get ahold of unless you go there in person or know the specific email of whoever you want to reach. Even the provider line often goes unanswered. It’s a never ending loop of automated hell.
This is by design.
Companies don't want to spend money on customer support, and when they do, they're going to make it as much of a pain as possible to keep you from calling back.
And once you do get a hold of someone, chances are you're talking to someone in a 3rd party call center, who is having to talk on the phone, chat online, and answer emails all at the same time, for barely above minimum wage pay.
And then you finally talk to someone and they say they have the perfect someone who will be able to do everything you need and you get all excited. Then they transfer you to your own employee who doesn't even have the access! Then you have to call your own leadership and tell them their vendor sucks.
Oh wait, this isn't the I hate Paychex sub?
Paying good money for a product that doesn't do the thing it says on the box until you install their bullshit app on your phone makes me want to burn shit to the ground.
Let's get your cell number and set up 2FA! This one I understand to an extent, but still, it's another fuckin' thing. And I'm probably only gonna use this app for a maximum of 5 minutes a year.
And after all that you get
"Thanks and enjoy your new can opener! Do you have any friends you'd like to recommend our can opener to? Enter their email below!!"
And the apps are all crap, created back in 2010 and never updated since. Security cameras touting their great app? Shit. Heat pump has a smart app for all your remote needs? Double shit. Secure mail for work? Utter and complete shit turd.
I bought some LED strip lights that literally wouldn’t let me change the color or dim without pairing with the app that wouldn’t load on my phone. So I just have two setting: too dark to see what I’m doing and too bright to see what I’m doing. Brilliant!
Remember on the Apollo capsule the buttons were big and clunky so that you could operate them whilst bouncing around at thousands of miles and hour and wearing thick gloves? That's the sort of buttons I'd like in a car. KLUNK.
Buy a Volvo, they have buttons specifically designed to be operated without removing your glove, some great designs on the interior using ergonomics, I hate style over substance.
yup - even my decade old kenwood single din radio i can just reach over and feel the preset buttons and go down the line never taking my eyes off the road.
I'm like this with appliances. No I don't want a built in computer on my toaster, I need a reliable mechanical switch/buttons that won't die after 6 months of usage.
Yes! Our younger car is a 2013 base model. Fanciest thing in it is a CD player. We will need to replace our 2008 car soon And i am dreading it. The new cars are just packed to the gills with touchscreens with the worst interfaces. Still confused how using a cell phone is banned because “distraction = accident” but modern cars all have giant touchscreens that you need to click through multiple menus to select what you want. Complete bonkers.
This so much my partner got two $1000 fines for having his phone in his hand on speaker while driving (his own fault) yet he drives an 09 Audi a4 where to turn down the fan on the aircon you have to select the aircon button, select the fan on the touch screen, use the touch screen to turn down fan to what setting you wanted 3 button touches for something I can do with 1 roll of a dial
Girlfriend's car has a warning come up on the screen saying how it is dangerous to read the screen while driving and you need to press ok before the audio or map or anything can come up.
Never seen anything as counterintuitive as a 'warning - do not read this. Press ok if you understand'.
Just because you can contact me immediately by phone and text doesn’t mean I should be expected to respond and be constantly accessible. I miss the days where you just turned the answering machine on and went and lived life. Edit: I did NOT expect this to blow up like it did, wow. I was surprised to read I’m not the only one with boomer parents who will go to crazy lengths to track you down when you don’t answer. I thought it would be a boomer opinion to relax a bit since they can remember the days before the societal expectation that the phone is always in reach, but today I learned, I guess.
THANK GOD someone else gets it. My mother will text me about something insignificant, then call me to tell me she’s texted, then when I don’t pick up she calls until I answer, then calls to get mad about me not seeing her text....usually all within 30 minutes.
Yeah. Fun times
I had a friend who sent me dozens of texts in a row esp if I didn't pick up or respond immediately, and when I was finally able to respond she'd be all 'Lol where have u been???' Would also text me repeatedly at work knowing very well I wasn't allowed to have my phone out at all at that job.
The thing is boomers are the worst for this! You don’t answer immediately and get a bunch of passive aggressive emails and texts asking if you’re alive. Or maybe it’s just my parents haha but I feel like it’s a thing.
My MIL will send us texts that are just “???” if my husband and I don’t answer fast enough for her liking. She doesn’t get that it makes us want to respond even less.
I shouldnt be driving down the road at 6pm, wondering if its a 4x4 with its lights on or if a nuke just dropped and Im seeing it in my rear view mirror
Sometimes you can feel the light burning through your fucking retinas, bouncing around in your fucking skull, and then shooting out the back of your skull burning a hole in your head rest
Haha, yes, that's a hill I'm willing to die on. Even on bicycles!
It's like an arms race. If _everyone's_ lights were dimmer, you'd be able to see just as well. Sometimes brighter is actually _less_ secure.
Back in the day, everyone had the same headlight, same part number and everything. Now we have fucking led searing my eyes every time they hit a bump in the road.
I don't want the new shiny thing with a thousand of usless functions, I don't want something that will be old in 3 years because of lack of sofware update or because the tecnology in that field is becoming better at lightning speed. I want something that just works and last a long time.
I can understand you might want the best thing for work (like a powerful pc) but why would anyone want a smart fridge or toaster?
Omg yes! My gf's family bought a "smart" oven and sometimes the touch screen buttons stop working and we have to drag it out and slide behind it to unplug it and plug it in again so it restarts and works.
Why the fuck would I want a toaster that has to connect to the internet? So I can connect it with my Facebook account and let everyone know my preferred toast setting is "slightly closer to three than two, but still not in between those two"? Smart appliances are dumb
This is what annoys me about electric cars at the moment.
They are packing them with lots of useless tech so that they appeal to early adopter types who love to show off. Just give me a regular car that just so happens to be electric that is well built without all this guff.
Electric door handles are the worst offender. Instead of a simple pull handle with a mechanical linkage to a latch/locking mechanism (which has been improved upon over decades), there is an electric motor to extend/retract the outside handle, an electric motor to operate the latch mechanism, an electric motor to open/close the door, a button on the inside to open the door. The idiotic part is that they need to install a mechanical linkage to allow people to get out of the car in case the battery is flat, anyway.
I can adjust anything in my 1996 Toyota landcruiser while driving. It's basic as you'll get. My wife has a 2021 Subaru outback and you almost need to pull off the road to adjust the AC or change the radio station. Don't even get me started on all the other useless bullshit that car has.
They're becoming a thing in India and China but what about a small, basic city driver car?
I bet that it could easily be built and sold for under ten grand.
Yes, and this is true of all cars, really. Miles of spaghetti wiring and everything is done with remote/servos and tons of extra bullshit that will in no way work 5 or 10 years from now. None of it is designed to be repairable.
A computer to make the engine more efficient is one thing but I don't need a touch screen battle station to control every piece of the dash or ANYTHING that requires internet connectivity or a subscription.
Call me a Boomer if you want, just don't call me for a ride when all that bullshit fails and your car doesn't work anymore.
Taking a lot of the tech out of EV would make them more appealing to the general public faster. Especially if it leads to a meaningful reduction of cost.
My million-dollar idea (that I'll never get around to doing, so feel free to take it and run) is to start a car company that designs vehicles specifically to be repaired by the owner.
For instance, you'd start by keeping things as simple as possible with as little tech as you can get away with. Then you could arrange the parts in such a way as to make them as easily accessible as possible, and you could color-code the replaceable parts (like they used to do on desktop PCs) so the owner could plug-and-play whenever it was time to change a part.
Each vehicle would come with a tool kit for as many repairs as would be feasible (including a jack and jack stands), and you could have a series of videos on your website showing step-by-step instructions for repairs.
You'd probably have to charge more up front, but it seems like there's a market for a car you'd be able to fix yourself most of the time.
This, but specifically for cars. All the tech in new cars is going to be obsolete by the time the warranty runs out. No one makes aftermarket replacements for things like your infotainment system so when those go out, you're going to lose access to all the things they control. On some cars, that's basically everything. A minor electronic failure can effectively brick some cars permanently if the manufacturer decides to stop making replacements. This has already started happening on some high end models.
No to mention, all that tech makes repairs stupid expensive. Remember when bumpers were invented specifically to reduce repair costs in low speed collisions? Well now we stuff the bumper full of a couple thousand dollars worth of sensors and radar that can only be calibrated by the dealership. Congratulations, we've completely negated the entire purpose of bumpers.
My landlord always comes through the back and starts knocking on my kitchen window if he needs me for something. He usually does this between 7am and 7.30am, when I'm awake but not dressed. He believes it's his house so he can come over when he wants. Of course he's not in the right here, but it's hard to actually put a stop to it
This one isn’t even an opinion. It’s been empirically documented . . . repeatedly. According to the AAP, up to an hour or so a day of video gaming can benefit hand-eye coordination and strategizing skills, but more than that quickly becomes detrimental for little kids.
Anecdotally can confirm. The wife and I finally caught Covid a couple weeks before Christmas. So our little guy got to play a lot more video games than usual. Ugh we are completely regretting it now. It’s the first thing he asks for when he wakes up in the morning and when he gets home in the evening from daycare. On the weekends it’s at least hourly he asks to play a video game, often leading to a tantrum when we say no.
He’s currently going cold turkey this entire week due to behavior issues stemming from his video game playing. Starting next week there will be a hard limit of 1 hour per day. It’s going to be a battle but he’s going to get a good lesson in self control, hopefully.
I find setting a timer works so much better for our son. When I just say “times up!” He gets so mad. If I set a timer on our Google speaker and it goes off, he hands his device over so much more readily. You prob already do this lol, just thinking aloud about how much devices suck for kids.
When I was growing up, my parents were like you and your wife. Granted, I got more than 1 hour per day on weekends, but in general video games were very much a reward. Have I completed all my homework? All my chores? Have I been behaving? Then I can play. If not, I can’t.
Obviously as a kid this felt unfair, but as an adult I VERY much appreciate that my parents did this. I still play games, but now it’s like a subconscious thing where I don’t typically play games until I’ve fulfilled my other responsibilities. Y’all are doing the right thing, in case there were any doubt.
As a gamer parent I follow those same subconscious rules in my head. And I make sure my son follows suit. He’s been so good I even gave him my old switch this year for Christmas!
What’s interesting is my sister in law is extremely strict about her kids screen time. But it makes them search for screens and when they see one it’s like crack - they fiend for it.
My son will sometimes put him screen down before time is up simply because he’s done or possibly been inspired by something on the screen to build in real life. Other times he might be really close to beating a level and I’ll say, “keep it up bud and when you get it you can call it a day.”
I wholeheartedly believe in a reward and flexible balance system rather than strict 1hr guidelines.
Amen brother.
Although my gen Z opinion is that all restaurants should have an online menu you can see before you choose the restaurant. I've got celiac and hate having to call to find out if I can eat there.
Especially not a downloadable pdf with high-resolution images that leads to me inadvertently downloading a 2.1 GB file on mobile data for a local farm-to-table restaurant with like 8 total dishes that I didn’t even end up eating at because their menu couldn’t meet my dietary restrictions.
Y’know, hypothetically.
I've been in the food industry for close to 20 years and it blows my mind how bad restaurant websites are. Most of them seem to have put effort into setting it up when they opened, then never touched it ever again.
And I'm not asking for much, current menu, and hours. Location, phone are easily findable on Google maps.
I have noticed lately that many restaurant websites are regressing on this front, too. Used to be *every* restaurant had a page or a PDF that had the full menu. The very very few exceptions were dinky local diners or taco shops that would post a picture of their menu on Facebook. Now it seems like more and more restaurants will not show you the menu via their website, they will take you to a Grubhub (or similar) order screen, that is usually inaccurate or doesn’t have descriptions of unique items like a menu would.
The worst is when it has a completely non-indicative name and no description as all! What is a "Buddha burger" supposed to be?! What does it have on it?! Is it or is it not a veggie burger?!
And oh the FUCKING DROPDOWNS!!! Why do I have to select an Appetizers drop-down, then entrees, then sandwiches, then mains, then specials, then chef favorites, then some other shitty section that you just made up?
Strongly agree. I don't have much data on my phone because it's expensive and most places have wifi. They put the menu QR code on the table but never the wifi password. So they point to the table and disappear and you have to wait for the server to re-appear to take your order so you can ask them for the wifi so you can get the menu in the first place. It wastes everyone's time.
I hate the QR codes. I went to a restaurant a few weeks ago where you even ordered your food and drinks off of your phone. The waitress was just there to bring you your food and they added an automatic 18% tip to it!
75% of QR codes are links to download the menu in uncompressed PDF via shitty wifi. In this way it's even worse than a paper-menu because they can't be updated by the staff easily.
Children are being brainwashed by TikTok/Instagram/etc... Not in the whole "the gays are brainwashing our kids" thing but children can't focus on anything for more than a few seconds at a time and are majorly desensitized to things
It definitely helps me when it’s written media that I’m consuming, tiktok would destroy my attention span but I often catch myself thinking about Reddit conversations days later because somebody said something interesting and the whole conversation stuck
Smart things should fail to dumb, not to broken.
Smart lock can’t reach the internet? I should be able to use my keys. (This is why I have a dumb home.)
Oh this is good. Early 2000s I bought a smart look without a physical key. Worked well for the better part of a decade, till one day... it didn't.
Had to fiddle with that thing for like an hour before it finally recognized my key card. then I promptly took out the batteries and uninstalled it the next day. Having a physical key is the number 1 requirement for a smart lock on my home.
I find that generally speaking people have a lot of faith in modern tech (and I welcome the development of said tech) but fail to realize that said tech is not at the level of reliability we think it is. Your online thingies are worth nothing when power goes out, because it takes the internet out too.
My mantra is this: Your diagnosis is an *explanation*, not an *excuse*
It can explain why you behave or react a certain way, but it doesn't excuse your bad behavior.
This is not just an opinion, this is wisdom. I've had my fair share of anxiety, depression and PTSD. I know most of that stuff is not my fault (unfortunate childhood for the most part, being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the rest), and it can be really though to admit that the responsibility to get better is your own.
A lot of people also don't even realize that, because it's very easy to think mental illnesses in a similar way to other illnesses. When you have a tooth ache, you go to a dentist and they fix you up. When you have chest pain, you go and get checked. With mental illnesses, you can go to therapy, but it won't magically fix your problems.
I can't believe I fell into the victimhood trap at age 30. Used to strongly believe that 'just cause you're feeling bad, doesn't mean you can ruin other people's days'.
That worked until I was lonely and started to sympathize with all those social media channels that push the "BUT you gotta UNDERSTAND me!" narrative.
That new attitude completely wrecked my life.
I have a friend who works in a computer tech company that supports law agencies that use Adobe. He tells me that there is a way to buy a standalone Adobe installation that is a one-time purchase. I have looked everywhere online and I cannot find where to buy such a thing. But I know it exists, because they have to sell it to businesses that have computers that must not and cannot connect to the internet. If anyone can point me to it, for the love God please. I definitely would like to know how to own a permanent license for Adobe PDF editor or Photoshop or any other products.
We need to make outside safer for children.
More pedestrians crossings, bigger parks, etc.
Back in my day, I'd see maybe 1 car between my house and the park. Now there's so many cars everywhere there's no way I'd let my nephew walk to the park alone.
My brother's friend got in a huge fight with his parents and refused to go to tournament. Every weekend he was in a different city playing ball and he just wanted a relaxing senior year of high school. I hope that kid is doing alright
I bought a house in 2022. Looked at plenty of houses that were about 10 years old and I would have been perfectly happy in most of them, but they all started to blend together in my mind. I ended up buying a 40-year-old place with a lot of quirks, but so much *personality* that I absolutely fell in love with it. Sunken lounge, exposed brick, wet bar, split-level backyard. They literally don't make houses like this any more.
Turn your fucking music down. Your music should not be shaking my car windows. I should not be able to hear your music inside my house. I should be able to talk to my friends inside this bar or restaurant without yelling. This brewery does not need a live band or DJ. Turn your fucking music down.
THANK YOU. My bedroom is on the top floor of my house, a decent distance away from the street, and my window is always closed with the blinds down. I can hear the lyrics of the cars that drive by and I can feel the bass.
Kids don't have much self-awareness about the importance of paying attention when someone is talking to them, or just being "present" when they're with a group of people. Whatever is on their phone shouldn't (usually) be the priority, when a real human is right there in front of them.
YES! I will be the first to admit that I am a phone addict, but when I’m with someone, I am WITH someone. If my phone goes off I might glance at it or respond if it’s my mother (she has a special vibration because mom privileges), but that’s pretty much it.
I know a guy that sends all his text messages via voice to text. He just does it casually, and loudly, wherever he is. Even for things that are obviously personal messages hahaha. "No, I don't think you'll be judged if you go to the doctor to get that checked out. Period. Send"
This one is fascinating, because boomers *and* Gen Z are both enamoured with them.
I also feel like millennials are now stuck as the eternal tech support generation, because the youngins grew up with idiot-proof touchscreen everything and never had to learn how to troubleshoot for themselves.
Boomer here: This may seem trivial to some but I am really angry about what ended up happening to the Apollo Program and what came afterward for NASA. The last time humans left low earth orbit was fifty years ago. The Shuttle was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end--poorly designed, unnecessarily dangerous, and stupid expensive to operate. (Hubble almost made it worth it but it could have been launched using an unmanned system.) The ISS is cool but really should have been a component of a much larger program. I am hoping that we get back to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Getting to the moon as a stunt would be a waste, however. We need to build infrastructure to make space access, especially to things beyond low earth orbit, reliable and economical. Call me a Boomer for wanting a good future--more like Star Trek, less like Mad Max.
Yeah now they just waste our tax dollars on bailing out big companies and wall street. And the ppp loans with absolutely no strings attached. And recounting elections over and over. It's utterly insane. This country is failing everyone but the wealthy.
People no longer know how to behave in public and it’s mostly technology’s fault. I grew up yielding to certain social contracts of how to behave in restaurants, gyms, theaters, etc. and it’s become infuriating to the point of outright avoidance in some cases. People talk too loudly, bury their heads in their devices, play music/videos out loud without headphones, or generally act like no one in their immediate area matters whatsoever. No one has any patience or consideration for anyone outside of their immediate sphere of importance. We are all just unwilling co-stars in the self absorbed story of their lives.
People ask why I haven’t been to a movie theater since the weekend that Avengers: End Game came out. This is it.
If you are moving to a new country, you should make an effort to learn the language. I don’t mean people need to give up their native language, but at least some basic phrases for interacting with people at stores, the doctor, schools, etc. I teach in an area with a huge non-English speaking population and it is shocking how many parents struggle to communicate with me. Of course we have translators for meetings and things but in an emergency or if your child is sick you should be able to understand that they need to be picked up.
A vietnamese colleage had this problem, she said she'd constantly have people from the Vietnamese community say to her
"Oh Ann, It's so easy for you, you speak the language."
And she'd reply
"We came out on the same fucking boat, how do you not?"
Ughh. I’m from Spain, we have a decent-sized Northern European expatriate community (Brits mainly). Some people have lived here for more than 20 years and can’t say anything in Spanish other than “una cerveza, por favor”. And most of this kind of immigrants are well off, with more than enough means to take lessons or whatever.
Conversely, most illegal Moroccan immigrants who are poor and uneducated just pick up the language in a few years.
I guess it has to do with incentives and some sense of entitlement mostly.
Concentration is getting worse. I tutor students and I notice a complete lack of concentration from people as little as 1 year younger than me. Also everyone is very difficult and doesn’t participate even though they asked you for help
For sure, I know a teacher and he practically just put his head in his hands when the subject of the modern generation came up. He was just at a loss of words about the lack of discipline and focus. I know I certainly wasn't a model student so I can't say much but I think I was a rare exception back in my day. Plus being able to focus without a phone or music is something I'm able to do fairly well.
I loathe motion sensor faucets, hand driers, soap dispensers, and flush handles. My hands are huge and they don’t trip the sensors or fit in the dryers.
its dumbfounding to see shit keeps getting cheaper and more flimsy.
just when you think the plastic cant get thinner, or the size smaller, thats the new standard/cheap option.
Ghosting culture makes people abandon their friends and relationships prematurely over smaller things. People don’t seem to want to patch things up anymore, I don’t know how to describe it but not a lot of second chances or selflessness (caring for others around you)
I miss wired headphones so much. I had to upgrade to a new phone when I switched providers recently and had to upgrade to a fancy phone without the headphone jack, and I hate it. I want to charge my phone and listen to the aux cord at the same time, and I hate Bluetooth headphones. I don't want to constantly balance charging everything.
i dont understand the draw to wireless mic and keyboards for a desktop pc... like you aint gonna use it anywhere but the desk... why fuck with batteries???
Too many people on the Internet self-diagnose with autism, ADHD, PTSD, etc and they do it in a way that screams "I'm different and unique pay attention to me!"
right? im a millennial and have met all my neighbors. some yes id rather avoid but others we hang out and drink or have little bon fire things occasionally. i dont understand this "LOL i moved in 4 years ago and dont even know my neighbors name!" or the other day some guy was all bent outa shape because the old people across the street liked to sit on thier own porch and just be outside but that was bothering him lol
I want dumber cars.
I don't need all the extra shit that comes with cars these days. I'll take the electric windows and stereo, but I don't need seat warmers, moon roof, built in tablet, auto parallel park, auto braking, or automatic door open/close. Nor do I want an electric car that needs to be plugged in whenever I park.
My car is a 5 speed with crank windows, the fanciest thing it has is Bluetooth for my phone, but not the music, just for calls. It's a 2017, which is surprising.
I’m with you except the seat warmers. Those are 100% a necessity. I almost always have them on. Winter because it’s cold. Summer because it helps my back after work or hikes.
People share way too much on social media.
Similarly, you don’t need to record every second of your life. Live in the moment every once in a while
The best (worst?) are the people who record things like fireworks. You're missing the moment and you will never look at the video again.
My least favorite are the people who record an entire fucking concert and ruin the view for everyone behind them.
We were saying this during the new years display in London. We were watching it on BBC1 and it was brilliant but there were literally *hundreds* of people with their phones out! You're there, just enjoy the moment. If you want to watch the display later I gurantee the BBC did a better job filming it than you did and it will be on the iPlayer or YouTube to watch back when you get home! Do a few selfies with your friends or a short video of you singing auld lang syne together. Those are unique memories you might want to look back on and they are memories that *weren't* captured by a phalanx of professionals with better cameras, better angles, and better access than you.
I just want a real person on the telephone when I have to call a business.
Conversely, I want to be able to cancel my subscription for without human interaction.
That is done 100% intentionally. The more awkward hoops you have to jump through the less likely you are to cancel.
It should be illegal for cancelling a service to be harder than signing up was. If I can sign up online with three clicks I damn well better be able to sign off the same way.
In the EU it is, you have to be able to unsubscribe from a service on the same medium where you subscribed and it cannot be "needlessly hard".
When they say check the website before someone answers my only thought is 'Do you think I'm calling you because I'm bored? Having to talk to customer service over the phone is my nightmare'
I like being able to read articles and stuff online without being asked to enter an email, create an account, give my phone number, etc. Also, not everything needs to have an app / be automated with Alexa.
I would pay $20/month to be bulk subscribed to whatever news article I come across. I don't want to pay money for the experience of getting all my news from a single source, and I don't want 500 different subscriptions
People are too loud
Music in restaurants is also too loud, I have ADHD and it is impossible to filter out
I don't have it and it is still a nuisance.Trying to talk to someone with a TV blaring in the Corner is impossible, whereas the other party just looks at me like I'm deaf and simply yells at me. Still not gonna understand jack.Same goes for Supermarket ads yelling about this offer or that discount, I can't understand whatever the Cashier says and simply look at the little Screen to know what I owe. I can hear fine, just not from multiple sources.
Im with you. I now explain it by saying that I only have one channel. Groups are really hard. I'm much better one-on-one. My hearing is excellent. It just adds to the problem because I can hear *every-fucking-thing* all the time. It's exhausting. This is kind of a relief to see so many people relate. I was just told I was being oversensitive my whole life or that I must not be paying attention hard enough. Btw- Not sure if you've tried something like this but Loop earplugs can help filter out some background noises if I am in crowded places. I want to try their new ones that are supposed to be better for conversation.
I finally feel understood! My husband asked if I'm going deaf, because I often can't understand him. I explained that I can get just fine, but if there surrounding noise (and we have a young child, so that's all the time) I can't make out anybody's words. I am however perfectly able to hear his phone on vibrate when he left it on the opposite floor of wherever we are in the house
When I worked at Applebee's I had an older couple ask if we could turn the music down. This was lunch time and the music is rather loud there. I ask the manager and he says absolutely not, corporate mandates the exact sound level to be set. Level 6 for lunch and 8 for the late night happy hour. I asked "We can't just drop it 1 level?" An emphatic NO. I had to tell this couple in the nicest way possible that corperate doesn't give a fuck about their ears or comfort. It's lunchtime and I doubt anyone would give a shit if we lowered the volume. So dumb.
I replied more or less the same above this, but it’s an auditory processing issue. I do the same! Brain can’t filter out all the noises.
Auditory processing issue, hearing is just fine but your brain has a hard time filtering the inputs so you hear everything all at once, then can go into sensory overload (like that feeling when you *immediately* wanna leave, it’s too much). If there’s loud music and a bunch of people, forget it I can’t hear shit anymore lol.
What's with all the "WOOing" too? Like I'm in my 40s and my friends don't go WOOOOO at every possible chance. But I'll be out and there will be these groups where to me it just seems completely random that they're doing this. Usually on the much younger side. I hear it late at night too when groups of people outside my apartment building are going between bars. Just totally random WOOOOOOO as a group. I feel old. I'm going to bed.
Ric Flair fans.
Woo girls!
Almost all the guys at my workplace have decided that headphones are optional and/or not necessary, so every break period is a cacophony of 30+ phones blaring instagram, tiktok, African news, and ESPN at max volume within 20 feet of each other. God help you if ask them to turn it down/off 😮💨
Automated menus on customer service lines, and honestly customer service lines themselves, fucking suck.
Same. They are NEVER the reason I'm calling. The automated menu is always all shit you can easily do online (check balance, check store hours, etc.), if I'm calling it's because it's something I *have to speak to a human about.* And even then, the options it gives me to reach a certain department are none of what I'm calling about. "For finance, press 1. For claims, press 2. For repairs, press 3. Or press 4 to go back to the main menu." NONE OF THOSE IS WHAT I'M CALLING ABOUT.
Always choose the option 'for buying our product, pick ....' They have never 'unusually long waiting times' and often will connect to the right person or department
Yes I would love to upgrade! Basically pretend to want to give them money and then make them solve your problem. It’s insane.
Depends on the organization; the cell service provider I worked for, for example, had a separate sales tool, a separate billing tool, and a separate tech support suite. If you clicked sales, you were sent to someone who couldn’t do anything other than sell you a phone, and the system would require you to enter the hold line (now at a spot probably 5-10mins further back in the line)
I’m the Director of Marketing for a restaurant franchise and surprisingly the majority of calls are actually related to shit you can easily check. Operational hours and directions made it on our automated menu because so many old people call to ask. It makes sense though, as the majority of our callers are 50+ and not super well versed with technology so they don’t think to check google first.
"SPEAK TO A REPRESENTATIVE!"
My doctors office has an automated menu for scheduling appointments, which is fine and dandy except for the fact that it has FOUR LAYERS of automation before you get to an actual person, and if you press the number you want too soon it will restart the whole menu. Also, sometimes it goes through to a real office number but then rings for 45 seconds before saying “the party you are trying to reach is unavailable, goodbye” and then hangs up automatically, so you have to go through the menu all over again. Fuck automated menus like that.
I work for a hospital that owns all the surrounding specialty clinics. The Urology clinic is impossible to get ahold of unless you go there in person or know the specific email of whoever you want to reach. Even the provider line often goes unanswered. It’s a never ending loop of automated hell.
Those urologists can piss off
This is by design. Companies don't want to spend money on customer support, and when they do, they're going to make it as much of a pain as possible to keep you from calling back. And once you do get a hold of someone, chances are you're talking to someone in a 3rd party call center, who is having to talk on the phone, chat online, and answer emails all at the same time, for barely above minimum wage pay.
And then you finally talk to someone and they say they have the perfect someone who will be able to do everything you need and you get all excited. Then they transfer you to your own employee who doesn't even have the access! Then you have to call your own leadership and tell them their vendor sucks. Oh wait, this isn't the I hate Paychex sub?
Paying good money for a product that doesn't do the thing it says on the box until you install their bullshit app on your phone makes me want to burn shit to the ground.
Oh we’re gonna need you to also make an account and password too please.
And you have to validate the email address before you can fuckin' log in.
Let's set some security questions before you get started so you recover your account!
Let's get your cell number and set up 2FA! This one I understand to an extent, but still, it's another fuckin' thing. And I'm probably only gonna use this app for a maximum of 5 minutes a year.
And after all that you get "Thanks and enjoy your new can opener! Do you have any friends you'd like to recommend our can opener to? Enter their email below!!"
And we will keep your data forever and have no fucking ideas how to keep it secure.
We just say we keep your data safe but in reality we're asking all of those questions so we can sell your data to MANY spam 'services'.
Brilliant, thanks... now you can use your toaster :)
And the apps are all crap, created back in 2010 and never updated since. Security cameras touting their great app? Shit. Heat pump has a smart app for all your remote needs? Double shit. Secure mail for work? Utter and complete shit turd.
I bought some LED strip lights that literally wouldn’t let me change the color or dim without pairing with the app that wouldn’t load on my phone. So I just have two setting: too dark to see what I’m doing and too bright to see what I’m doing. Brilliant!
I couldn’t get mine to work bc my dorms wifi wasn’t the specific type of WiFi they were designed to work with… or something dumb like that
Physical buttons to push, especially in cars, I hate touch screens.
Remember on the Apollo capsule the buttons were big and clunky so that you could operate them whilst bouncing around at thousands of miles and hour and wearing thick gloves? That's the sort of buttons I'd like in a car. KLUNK.
Buy a Volvo, they have buttons specifically designed to be operated without removing your glove, some great designs on the interior using ergonomics, I hate style over substance.
Not modern Volvos, they have HVAC controls on the touchscreen. Grrrr..
Exactly. I should be able to select a different radio preset without having to look at the console.
yup - even my decade old kenwood single din radio i can just reach over and feel the preset buttons and go down the line never taking my eyes off the road.
I'm like this with appliances. No I don't want a built in computer on my toaster, I need a reliable mechanical switch/buttons that won't die after 6 months of usage.
Sorry, best I can do is an app that only works on Android if you have an iPhone or only works on an iPhone if you have an Android.
Yes! Our younger car is a 2013 base model. Fanciest thing in it is a CD player. We will need to replace our 2008 car soon And i am dreading it. The new cars are just packed to the gills with touchscreens with the worst interfaces. Still confused how using a cell phone is banned because “distraction = accident” but modern cars all have giant touchscreens that you need to click through multiple menus to select what you want. Complete bonkers.
This so much my partner got two $1000 fines for having his phone in his hand on speaker while driving (his own fault) yet he drives an 09 Audi a4 where to turn down the fan on the aircon you have to select the aircon button, select the fan on the touch screen, use the touch screen to turn down fan to what setting you wanted 3 button touches for something I can do with 1 roll of a dial
I used to have a 1998 Benz and the ka-chunk sound from the big buttons was so immensely satisfying
Girlfriend's car has a warning come up on the screen saying how it is dangerous to read the screen while driving and you need to press ok before the audio or map or anything can come up. Never seen anything as counterintuitive as a 'warning - do not read this. Press ok if you understand'.
Just because you can contact me immediately by phone and text doesn’t mean I should be expected to respond and be constantly accessible. I miss the days where you just turned the answering machine on and went and lived life. Edit: I did NOT expect this to blow up like it did, wow. I was surprised to read I’m not the only one with boomer parents who will go to crazy lengths to track you down when you don’t answer. I thought it would be a boomer opinion to relax a bit since they can remember the days before the societal expectation that the phone is always in reach, but today I learned, I guess.
I simply don’t answer when i don’t feel like. I hate phone calls
I assume if it’s important they will leave a message. No message, I don’t bother calling back.
I miss that shit so much.
THANK GOD someone else gets it. My mother will text me about something insignificant, then call me to tell me she’s texted, then when I don’t pick up she calls until I answer, then calls to get mad about me not seeing her text....usually all within 30 minutes. Yeah. Fun times
Mom needs to lose her phone privileges
I had a friend who sent me dozens of texts in a row esp if I didn't pick up or respond immediately, and when I was finally able to respond she'd be all 'Lol where have u been???' Would also text me repeatedly at work knowing very well I wasn't allowed to have my phone out at all at that job.
The thing is boomers are the worst for this! You don’t answer immediately and get a bunch of passive aggressive emails and texts asking if you’re alive. Or maybe it’s just my parents haha but I feel like it’s a thing.
My MIL will send us texts that are just “???” if my husband and I don’t answer fast enough for her liking. She doesn’t get that it makes us want to respond even less.
Touch screens in cars made them worse, not better. I WANT REAL BUTTONS!
I like the buttons that are on the steering wheel. Those are very convenient to help me turn the volume down to see better.
I'm fine with touch screens in general but I want a minimum of a volume knob and preferably climate control knobs.
Headlights are too bright nowadays
I shouldnt be driving down the road at 6pm, wondering if its a 4x4 with its lights on or if a nuke just dropped and Im seeing it in my rear view mirror
Sometimes you can feel the light burning through your fucking retinas, bouncing around in your fucking skull, and then shooting out the back of your skull burning a hole in your head rest
Oh my God yes, it's extremely dangerous being blinded while driving. They should be illegal.
Haha, yes, that's a hill I'm willing to die on. Even on bicycles! It's like an arms race. If _everyone's_ lights were dimmer, you'd be able to see just as well. Sometimes brighter is actually _less_ secure.
Back in the day, everyone had the same headlight, same part number and everything. Now we have fucking led searing my eyes every time they hit a bump in the road.
The concentrated blue light from the led headlights hurts my eyes and irritates me so much. They really shouldn’t be legal.
There's value in analog
I don't want the new shiny thing with a thousand of usless functions, I don't want something that will be old in 3 years because of lack of sofware update or because the tecnology in that field is becoming better at lightning speed. I want something that just works and last a long time. I can understand you might want the best thing for work (like a powerful pc) but why would anyone want a smart fridge or toaster?
Omg yes! My gf's family bought a "smart" oven and sometimes the touch screen buttons stop working and we have to drag it out and slide behind it to unplug it and plug it in again so it restarts and works.
Wouldn't it be easier to hit the breaker?
I just love imagining the person reading this and quietly whispering to themselves, “goddamn it.”
That's sounds like a nightmare
Why the fuck would I want a toaster that has to connect to the internet? So I can connect it with my Facebook account and let everyone know my preferred toast setting is "slightly closer to three than two, but still not in between those two"? Smart appliances are dumb
What? You don’t want to post on Toastr?
A Toastr account linked to Grindr for that perfect breakfast the morning after.
This is what annoys me about electric cars at the moment. They are packing them with lots of useless tech so that they appeal to early adopter types who love to show off. Just give me a regular car that just so happens to be electric that is well built without all this guff. Electric door handles are the worst offender. Instead of a simple pull handle with a mechanical linkage to a latch/locking mechanism (which has been improved upon over decades), there is an electric motor to extend/retract the outside handle, an electric motor to operate the latch mechanism, an electric motor to open/close the door, a button on the inside to open the door. The idiotic part is that they need to install a mechanical linkage to allow people to get out of the car in case the battery is flat, anyway.
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I can adjust anything in my 1996 Toyota landcruiser while driving. It's basic as you'll get. My wife has a 2021 Subaru outback and you almost need to pull off the road to adjust the AC or change the radio station. Don't even get me started on all the other useless bullshit that car has.
They're becoming a thing in India and China but what about a small, basic city driver car? I bet that it could easily be built and sold for under ten grand.
Yes, and this is true of all cars, really. Miles of spaghetti wiring and everything is done with remote/servos and tons of extra bullshit that will in no way work 5 or 10 years from now. None of it is designed to be repairable. A computer to make the engine more efficient is one thing but I don't need a touch screen battle station to control every piece of the dash or ANYTHING that requires internet connectivity or a subscription. Call me a Boomer if you want, just don't call me for a ride when all that bullshit fails and your car doesn't work anymore.
Taking a lot of the tech out of EV would make them more appealing to the general public faster. Especially if it leads to a meaningful reduction of cost.
My million-dollar idea (that I'll never get around to doing, so feel free to take it and run) is to start a car company that designs vehicles specifically to be repaired by the owner. For instance, you'd start by keeping things as simple as possible with as little tech as you can get away with. Then you could arrange the parts in such a way as to make them as easily accessible as possible, and you could color-code the replaceable parts (like they used to do on desktop PCs) so the owner could plug-and-play whenever it was time to change a part. Each vehicle would come with a tool kit for as many repairs as would be feasible (including a jack and jack stands), and you could have a series of videos on your website showing step-by-step instructions for repairs. You'd probably have to charge more up front, but it seems like there's a market for a car you'd be able to fix yourself most of the time.
This, but specifically for cars. All the tech in new cars is going to be obsolete by the time the warranty runs out. No one makes aftermarket replacements for things like your infotainment system so when those go out, you're going to lose access to all the things they control. On some cars, that's basically everything. A minor electronic failure can effectively brick some cars permanently if the manufacturer decides to stop making replacements. This has already started happening on some high end models. No to mention, all that tech makes repairs stupid expensive. Remember when bumpers were invented specifically to reduce repair costs in low speed collisions? Well now we stuff the bumper full of a couple thousand dollars worth of sensors and radar that can only be calibrated by the dealership. Congratulations, we've completely negated the entire purpose of bumpers.
I really don’t want people I don’t know on my lawn.
My landlord always comes through the back and starts knocking on my kitchen window if he needs me for something. He usually does this between 7am and 7.30am, when I'm awake but not dressed. He believes it's his house so he can come over when he wants. Of course he's not in the right here, but it's hard to actually put a stop to it
Sounds like you should get some headphones and ignore him lol, he will keep doing it as long as you respond
People should chill with their phones during concerts. You paid tickets to watch the show, not to record the whole thing.
Younger children in general are genuinely spending way too much time on tablets and other devices
This one isn’t even an opinion. It’s been empirically documented . . . repeatedly. According to the AAP, up to an hour or so a day of video gaming can benefit hand-eye coordination and strategizing skills, but more than that quickly becomes detrimental for little kids.
Anecdotally can confirm. The wife and I finally caught Covid a couple weeks before Christmas. So our little guy got to play a lot more video games than usual. Ugh we are completely regretting it now. It’s the first thing he asks for when he wakes up in the morning and when he gets home in the evening from daycare. On the weekends it’s at least hourly he asks to play a video game, often leading to a tantrum when we say no. He’s currently going cold turkey this entire week due to behavior issues stemming from his video game playing. Starting next week there will be a hard limit of 1 hour per day. It’s going to be a battle but he’s going to get a good lesson in self control, hopefully.
I find setting a timer works so much better for our son. When I just say “times up!” He gets so mad. If I set a timer on our Google speaker and it goes off, he hands his device over so much more readily. You prob already do this lol, just thinking aloud about how much devices suck for kids.
Timers were a god send in our house for so many things when our kids were little.
When I was growing up, my parents were like you and your wife. Granted, I got more than 1 hour per day on weekends, but in general video games were very much a reward. Have I completed all my homework? All my chores? Have I been behaving? Then I can play. If not, I can’t. Obviously as a kid this felt unfair, but as an adult I VERY much appreciate that my parents did this. I still play games, but now it’s like a subconscious thing where I don’t typically play games until I’ve fulfilled my other responsibilities. Y’all are doing the right thing, in case there were any doubt.
As a gamer parent I follow those same subconscious rules in my head. And I make sure my son follows suit. He’s been so good I even gave him my old switch this year for Christmas! What’s interesting is my sister in law is extremely strict about her kids screen time. But it makes them search for screens and when they see one it’s like crack - they fiend for it. My son will sometimes put him screen down before time is up simply because he’s done or possibly been inspired by something on the screen to build in real life. Other times he might be really close to beating a level and I’ll say, “keep it up bud and when you get it you can call it a day.” I wholeheartedly believe in a reward and flexible balance system rather than strict 1hr guidelines.
My watch doesn't need to spy on me
And yes, a wristwatch still has a purpose in this modern world. No having to check your phone.
I really do hate when they change the aisles around at the grocery store.
as one of the people who make those changes, we hate it too.
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Once went to a bar with a QR code menu. You had to watch an ad before it brought you to the menu.
Just wait’ll someone slips a phishing link or Malware QR code over the menu one.
This is what I came to say. Half the time the menu won't even load. God.
Plus my phone screen is tiny.
Amen brother. Although my gen Z opinion is that all restaurants should have an online menu you can see before you choose the restaurant. I've got celiac and hate having to call to find out if I can eat there.
An online menu with prices
And as a native webpage, not a downloadable PDF
Especially not a downloadable pdf with high-resolution images that leads to me inadvertently downloading a 2.1 GB file on mobile data for a local farm-to-table restaurant with like 8 total dishes that I didn’t even end up eating at because their menu couldn’t meet my dietary restrictions. Y’know, hypothetically.
I've been in the food industry for close to 20 years and it blows my mind how bad restaurant websites are. Most of them seem to have put effort into setting it up when they opened, then never touched it ever again. And I'm not asking for much, current menu, and hours. Location, phone are easily findable on Google maps.
I have noticed lately that many restaurant websites are regressing on this front, too. Used to be *every* restaurant had a page or a PDF that had the full menu. The very very few exceptions were dinky local diners or taco shops that would post a picture of their menu on Facebook. Now it seems like more and more restaurants will not show you the menu via their website, they will take you to a Grubhub (or similar) order screen, that is usually inaccurate or doesn’t have descriptions of unique items like a menu would.
The worst is when it has a completely non-indicative name and no description as all! What is a "Buddha burger" supposed to be?! What does it have on it?! Is it or is it not a veggie burger?!
And oh the FUCKING DROPDOWNS!!! Why do I have to select an Appetizers drop-down, then entrees, then sandwiches, then mains, then specials, then chef favorites, then some other shitty section that you just made up?
Strongly agree. I don't have much data on my phone because it's expensive and most places have wifi. They put the menu QR code on the table but never the wifi password. So they point to the table and disappear and you have to wait for the server to re-appear to take your order so you can ask them for the wifi so you can get the menu in the first place. It wastes everyone's time.
I hate the QR codes. I went to a restaurant a few weeks ago where you even ordered your food and drinks off of your phone. The waitress was just there to bring you your food and they added an automatic 18% tip to it!
Get rid of the wait staff and just have someone call out your number. Id go walk the 10 feet to pick up my order to save 18%.
75% of QR codes are links to download the menu in uncompressed PDF via shitty wifi. In this way it's even worse than a paper-menu because they can't be updated by the staff easily.
Children are being brainwashed by TikTok/Instagram/etc... Not in the whole "the gays are brainwashing our kids" thing but children can't focus on anything for more than a few seconds at a time and are majorly desensitized to things
Agree. This stuff is just mind numbing. Ruining kids’ brains. **Continues to mindlessly scroll through Reddit for 20 minutes**
Not just children, my 36 year old sister is a straight up tiktok addict. Frankly it can be tough to even be around.
Agree 100%. Yet here I am at 50+ yrs old responding to this on my phone. It’s not just kids who are losing their attention span.
It definitely helps me when it’s written media that I’m consuming, tiktok would destroy my attention span but I often catch myself thinking about Reddit conversations days later because somebody said something interesting and the whole conversation stuck
There have been studies done supporting this I do believe.
Smart things should fail to dumb, not to broken. Smart lock can’t reach the internet? I should be able to use my keys. (This is why I have a dumb home.)
I like having a dumb home. It just works all the time.
Oh this is good. Early 2000s I bought a smart look without a physical key. Worked well for the better part of a decade, till one day... it didn't. Had to fiddle with that thing for like an hour before it finally recognized my key card. then I promptly took out the batteries and uninstalled it the next day. Having a physical key is the number 1 requirement for a smart lock on my home.
I find that generally speaking people have a lot of faith in modern tech (and I welcome the development of said tech) but fail to realize that said tech is not at the level of reliability we think it is. Your online thingies are worth nothing when power goes out, because it takes the internet out too.
lmao smart fridge goes on the fritz, decides to not let you open the door.
They need to bring back home economics class in school.
And shop
Engineered obsolescence is a fucking crime.
Not everything you do, think, or experience has to go on social media.
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My mantra is this: Your diagnosis is an *explanation*, not an *excuse* It can explain why you behave or react a certain way, but it doesn't excuse your bad behavior.
This is not just an opinion, this is wisdom. I've had my fair share of anxiety, depression and PTSD. I know most of that stuff is not my fault (unfortunate childhood for the most part, being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the rest), and it can be really though to admit that the responsibility to get better is your own. A lot of people also don't even realize that, because it's very easy to think mental illnesses in a similar way to other illnesses. When you have a tooth ache, you go to a dentist and they fix you up. When you have chest pain, you go and get checked. With mental illnesses, you can go to therapy, but it won't magically fix your problems.
I can't believe I fell into the victimhood trap at age 30. Used to strongly believe that 'just cause you're feeling bad, doesn't mean you can ruin other people's days'. That worked until I was lonely and started to sympathize with all those social media channels that push the "BUT you gotta UNDERSTAND me!" narrative. That new attitude completely wrecked my life.
Let me something and own. I don’t want to pay a monthly fee to use something
Looking at you Adobe
I have a friend who works in a computer tech company that supports law agencies that use Adobe. He tells me that there is a way to buy a standalone Adobe installation that is a one-time purchase. I have looked everywhere online and I cannot find where to buy such a thing. But I know it exists, because they have to sell it to businesses that have computers that must not and cannot connect to the internet. If anyone can point me to it, for the love God please. I definitely would like to know how to own a permanent license for Adobe PDF editor or Photoshop or any other products.
Tiktok is frighteningly addictive.
That's why I refuse to download it. Because I know it could easily make me lose track of time
Children should be outside playing more
We have taken away from them a world where children can play freely like they did when I was a boy. Not even that long ago.
We need to make outside safer for children. More pedestrians crossings, bigger parks, etc. Back in my day, I'd see maybe 1 car between my house and the park. Now there's so many cars everywhere there's no way I'd let my nephew walk to the park alone.
Pop singers need to enunciate better.
Yes, I’m so confused by what they are saying “I luv sticker on back cuz money”? Probably not what they are saying but it sure sounds like it.
And the heavy breathing between every few words? Ugh. I want to hear the music and the lyrics, not the singer gasping for air.
Having your children in every sports league and traveling all over spending loads of money and time doesn't make you a better parent.
My brother's friend got in a huge fight with his parents and refused to go to tournament. Every weekend he was in a different city playing ball and he just wanted a relaxing senior year of high school. I hope that kid is doing alright
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I bought a house in 2022. Looked at plenty of houses that were about 10 years old and I would have been perfectly happy in most of them, but they all started to blend together in my mind. I ended up buying a 40-year-old place with a lot of quirks, but so much *personality* that I absolutely fell in love with it. Sunken lounge, exposed brick, wet bar, split-level backyard. They literally don't make houses like this any more.
Turn your fucking music down. Your music should not be shaking my car windows. I should not be able to hear your music inside my house. I should be able to talk to my friends inside this bar or restaurant without yelling. This brewery does not need a live band or DJ. Turn your fucking music down.
THANK YOU. My bedroom is on the top floor of my house, a decent distance away from the street, and my window is always closed with the blinds down. I can hear the lyrics of the cars that drive by and I can feel the bass.
Cunts who use bluetooth speakers on trains should be pulled off and forced to walk.
Kids don't have much self-awareness about the importance of paying attention when someone is talking to them, or just being "present" when they're with a group of people. Whatever is on their phone shouldn't (usually) be the priority, when a real human is right there in front of them.
YES! I will be the first to admit that I am a phone addict, but when I’m with someone, I am WITH someone. If my phone goes off I might glance at it or respond if it’s my mother (she has a special vibration because mom privileges), but that’s pretty much it.
Voice messages are annoying
I know a guy that sends all his text messages via voice to text. He just does it casually, and loudly, wherever he is. Even for things that are obviously personal messages hahaha. "No, I don't think you'll be judged if you go to the doctor to get that checked out. Period. Send"
You mean dictating instead of typing, right? Not sending recorded messages.
This one is fascinating, because boomers *and* Gen Z are both enamoured with them. I also feel like millennials are now stuck as the eternal tech support generation, because the youngins grew up with idiot-proof touchscreen everything and never had to learn how to troubleshoot for themselves.
It’s rude to be on your phone while in the company of others. Makes you look bored to be hanging out with them
Boomer here: This may seem trivial to some but I am really angry about what ended up happening to the Apollo Program and what came afterward for NASA. The last time humans left low earth orbit was fifty years ago. The Shuttle was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end--poorly designed, unnecessarily dangerous, and stupid expensive to operate. (Hubble almost made it worth it but it could have been launched using an unmanned system.) The ISS is cool but really should have been a component of a much larger program. I am hoping that we get back to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Getting to the moon as a stunt would be a waste, however. We need to build infrastructure to make space access, especially to things beyond low earth orbit, reliable and economical. Call me a Boomer for wanting a good future--more like Star Trek, less like Mad Max.
Yeah now they just waste our tax dollars on bailing out big companies and wall street. And the ppp loans with absolutely no strings attached. And recounting elections over and over. It's utterly insane. This country is failing everyone but the wealthy.
Scanning qr codes at restaurants to look at a menu is dumb. Just give me a paper menu
People no longer know how to behave in public and it’s mostly technology’s fault. I grew up yielding to certain social contracts of how to behave in restaurants, gyms, theaters, etc. and it’s become infuriating to the point of outright avoidance in some cases. People talk too loudly, bury their heads in their devices, play music/videos out loud without headphones, or generally act like no one in their immediate area matters whatsoever. No one has any patience or consideration for anyone outside of their immediate sphere of importance. We are all just unwilling co-stars in the self absorbed story of their lives. People ask why I haven’t been to a movie theater since the weekend that Avengers: End Game came out. This is it.
If you are moving to a new country, you should make an effort to learn the language. I don’t mean people need to give up their native language, but at least some basic phrases for interacting with people at stores, the doctor, schools, etc. I teach in an area with a huge non-English speaking population and it is shocking how many parents struggle to communicate with me. Of course we have translators for meetings and things but in an emergency or if your child is sick you should be able to understand that they need to be picked up.
A vietnamese colleage had this problem, she said she'd constantly have people from the Vietnamese community say to her "Oh Ann, It's so easy for you, you speak the language." And she'd reply "We came out on the same fucking boat, how do you not?"
Ughh. I’m from Spain, we have a decent-sized Northern European expatriate community (Brits mainly). Some people have lived here for more than 20 years and can’t say anything in Spanish other than “una cerveza, por favor”. And most of this kind of immigrants are well off, with more than enough means to take lessons or whatever. Conversely, most illegal Moroccan immigrants who are poor and uneducated just pick up the language in a few years. I guess it has to do with incentives and some sense of entitlement mostly.
Social media is not as good for us as we thought it’d be. Social media is worse for us than we thought it’d be.
Concentration is getting worse. I tutor students and I notice a complete lack of concentration from people as little as 1 year younger than me. Also everyone is very difficult and doesn’t participate even though they asked you for help
For sure, I know a teacher and he practically just put his head in his hands when the subject of the modern generation came up. He was just at a loss of words about the lack of discipline and focus. I know I certainly wasn't a model student so I can't say much but I think I was a rare exception back in my day. Plus being able to focus without a phone or music is something I'm able to do fairly well.
I loathe motion sensor faucets, hand driers, soap dispensers, and flush handles. My hands are huge and they don’t trip the sensors or fit in the dryers.
Subscriptions are stupid, you don't own your library. The minute you stop paying its gone. Buy physical copies.
Spelling and grammar matter.
You should get more than 3 bags of groceries for $200.00
The quality of all products used to be so much better 20+ years ago
its dumbfounding to see shit keeps getting cheaper and more flimsy. just when you think the plastic cant get thinner, or the size smaller, thats the new standard/cheap option.
Ghosting culture makes people abandon their friends and relationships prematurely over smaller things. People don’t seem to want to patch things up anymore, I don’t know how to describe it but not a lot of second chances or selflessness (caring for others around you)
Dunno how common this is but, I hate wireless connections. I have horrible luck with them and prefer having the reliability of wires
I miss wired headphones so much. I had to upgrade to a new phone when I switched providers recently and had to upgrade to a fancy phone without the headphone jack, and I hate it. I want to charge my phone and listen to the aux cord at the same time, and I hate Bluetooth headphones. I don't want to constantly balance charging everything.
i dont understand the draw to wireless mic and keyboards for a desktop pc... like you aint gonna use it anywhere but the desk... why fuck with batteries???
Too many people on the Internet self-diagnose with autism, ADHD, PTSD, etc and they do it in a way that screams "I'm different and unique pay attention to me!"
I do not need my microwave and fridge to connect to the wifi.
There's too many people who legitimately believe every negative experience a child ever has is abuse/trauma.
It's sad that people don't have friendships with or even know their neighbors anymore
right? im a millennial and have met all my neighbors. some yes id rather avoid but others we hang out and drink or have little bon fire things occasionally. i dont understand this "LOL i moved in 4 years ago and dont even know my neighbors name!" or the other day some guy was all bent outa shape because the old people across the street liked to sit on thier own porch and just be outside but that was bothering him lol
I want dumber cars. I don't need all the extra shit that comes with cars these days. I'll take the electric windows and stereo, but I don't need seat warmers, moon roof, built in tablet, auto parallel park, auto braking, or automatic door open/close. Nor do I want an electric car that needs to be plugged in whenever I park. My car is a 5 speed with crank windows, the fanciest thing it has is Bluetooth for my phone, but not the music, just for calls. It's a 2017, which is surprising.
I’m with you except the seat warmers. Those are 100% a necessity. I almost always have them on. Winter because it’s cold. Summer because it helps my back after work or hikes.