Elon Musk Buys Congress

Very.

don't feel bad, I still have a phone book next to my landline lmfao

I too prefer to be able to hear with some degree of clarity those on the other end of the phone, although even listening doesn't matter anymore because people have to talk to do that. In a decade these kiddies coming up today will be 'communicatig' soley in Emojis. They're already down to one word "bruh" and "lol" today.

People have reduced themselves to mere polyps servicing their latest kool kidz gizmos.

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most of them can't even look a person in the eye, technology is good but when it is completely and utterly depended on for every aspect of someone's life .. it becomes a crutch weakening the individual over time.

And they wonder why they have no friends or get exausted just having to get up to go to the bathroom to take a wizz. Teen pregancy rates have been going down in recent years because they don't even know how to say "Hi" to each other!

My gosh, I mean I was a socially inept dork growing up too, but at least back then we interacted with other folks.

Chemicals in the food and water, it is the only thing I can think of that changed society so fast and so drastically. Then you have an over usage of technology, pornography at the tips of children's fingers. People say that don't matter , but they don't remember how hard it was in the early 90s to see a naked chick , there is no motivation to put yourself in an awkward situation with the opposite sex for a chance to see them that way, if it is all on the computer screen. I remember bouncing off the walls to get out of the house to go talk with girls. These kids.. their sex drives are muted by the chemicals and society and the internet .. and it spells disaster for future generations. Anyways Modda thanks for the laughs , you got a good handle on shit and I appreciate it. take care.

This is true.

Then there are shrinking families - no siblings to fight with or get support or advice from, absentee parents working or divorced, one cousin 3000 miles away, people even scared to let their kids out into those dangerous streets - they're short on means for learning social skills.

Less kids and they're spoiled. Who had their own tv and phone in their room way back when? There was one of each and the whole family used it.

Speshul Snowflaking, where everyone's a winner so they won't cry and nobody loses because they're all taught to fail together because competition is a strain on the body, brain, and delicate feelz.

Fighting is bad, whining is good. Kids getting PTSD from just being called "boogerheads." In their twenties not even trying to get jobs when back in the day teens got Working Papers so they can work before 18. Forget about Jr delivering papers at 6am, mowing neighbors' lawns for a few bucks.

And with the porn, good gosh, middle school kids are furries and into Anime porn? They've never had any friends, let alone dated, yet they're that bored with sex already even though they've never done it?

No will, no drive, no ambition, no guts, no spines. Resources declining, things are gonna be way rough when they're seniors, and they've been rehearsing for life as gelatinous globs with no memories to leave behind so that anyone can even know they were ever alive. And this is just on an individual level, as the world around them shrivels and dries, no effort from them to keep it alive.

When the world ends, will there be anyone willing to notice?

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that is okay, I write notes in cursive and watch them try to decipher it like its an alien language. Sometime I like to watch them try to figure out what time it is with the analog clock on my wall... that shit is hilarious. So, I guess we laugh at each other.

Sir, NOBODY CARES ABOUT CURSIVE ANYMORE! They never really did in the first place, we're just honest enough to admit it these days.

wow you really don't remember having to write and print your name on documents? It was a way of identification. But I get it, anything kids can't do doesn't matter. lmfao

Never been turned down for a job because I couldn't write cursive. Never had trouble opening a bank account. Never had a problem signing for titles, signing for deeds, never had a problem amending by birth certificate or passport.

They lied to you, sir. Cursive is 100% completely useless, it was a complete waste of your school time.

You never wrote your name on cheques before? I mean, I suppose you could just print your name on the signature line but I always thought you needed to write in cursive for that

I unintentionally hit a sore spot with antithesis, he is mad because he doesn't know how to sign his own name lmfao

I wrote several cheques back in the day. Not one single cheque ever bounced. Cursive is useless. They lied to you.

Knowledge is never useless , Only a left winger thinks something they can not do is not worth knowing.

It's not knowledge, it's a handwriting style. It does nothing. You are at no disadvantage whatsoever without it. Knowledge is the stuff they SHOULD have been teaching you instead.

It's quite useful if you want to write something that should be confidential from teens.

"Cursive is 100% completely useless"

Laura Ingalls vs the disposable people of today might disagree, not that anyone today is doing anything writing-wise worthy of note. We've become a society known for gadgets and passe-come-tomorrow accoutrements totally devoid of substance and with no soul to speak of.

damn, you cut right to the bone ;D lol

Can you imagine the Ken Burns-type documentary on PBS two centuries from now? The diary entries they read from some seamstress in Wisonsin? The letters from a Civil War soldier to his ma? What will they have like that for today, an apology to the viewers that they have no words to tell but no worries, people from our times were nothing but spoiled friendless phony-suicidal Emos suffering from Speshul Snowflake Syndrome whining about their Bi-Polar ASD ADHD PTSD OCD whose real only struggle is keeping the Red Bull flowing so they can post about their butthurt on social media three days in a row without sleep?

That would necessitate them looking AWAY from their cellies for a entire second or EGADS! two though, so ain't happening.

I remember Thanskgiving a few years ago with three gens of this extended family we know out in Queens and there was a crop of them hanging out in the living room and den silently absorbed in their phones not talking to each other while someone played guitar. Bunch of Cyber Zombies.

6:25pm EST, you heard it here first everybody! Gen Cyber Zombz!

I have experienced the same thing with my nephews. I talk major shit to them about it though, I harass them until they put their phones up lol I'll give full credit to you as well when I see them next and I call them cyber zombies lmfao

I regret not having raised a family but seeing this crap today makes me regret it less. They would hate my guts too, because on holiday get togethers and whatnot I will give them the option to shut those stupid things off or I'm off to to the basement to shut the fuse box off.

na I think your kids would have turned out awesome bro, its all on how you raise them. I got 3 of my own and they are little versions of me with hints of my wife mixed in. I showed them the hypocrisy and showed the double talk of both parties - I don't know their future , but I am happy with the foundations I laid for them to build it on.

Elon Musk is 50 years old!

Who?