green grass | TheaterFire

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Bernard_PT@reddit

I cleaned my ass while reading this post

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PorQuePanckes@reddit

Directions to places, that’s about all I got

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Having unlimited music is overrated anyways. How many songs do most people listen to anyways? At least having it in a focused collection forced you to pick out things you actually wanted to hear and albums from artist where you actually wanted to listen to the whole thing. Now we all have choice paralysis from all the unlimited choices so we fall back on the same 20ish songs recommended on the front page every time

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western-information@reddit

Yep. It’s also harder to bond with people over good new music now because everyone’s taste is algorithmically targeted. The radio always kinda gatekept and trended toward record company artists but at least some radio artists still had soul for a while. Then you could just go to college radio, blogs, and record stores to find a semi-cohesive culture of independent music. Now, unless you accept the handful of songs trending with short form videos or the absolute garbage on the radio the chances of you listening to the same music as some random person you meet is slim

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SomeLeftGuy633@reddit

I've been watching a travel blogger traversing China and India on and off for about two years and I was somewhat surprised how good translation on the spot can be.

It's somewhat off-road content which I enjoy and it was heartwarming to see people connect whereas they wouldn't be able able to understand a word from each other otherwise.

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Salt-Powered@reddit

Smartphones feel like such a stolen technology. They could have been truly an amazing thing for everyone's benefit. A true computer in your pocket that actually helps you. But no, there was too much money to be made instead.

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dance_rattle_shake@reddit

GPS. It's the reason I got one, years after everyone else in my life had one. Holy shit it changed my life overnight.

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WeasleFire@reddit

(Posted from my iPhone)

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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

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Berkuts_Lance_Plus@reddit

Everyone who posts this comic should deepthroat a loaded gun for the good of humankind.

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G14Y401L0L1F1D0MTR4P@reddit

What no argument does to a mf

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ur_moms_boy-toy@reddit

The comic itself also contains no argument, if I remember correctly.

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CerifiedHuman0001@reddit

It does, and the point is pretty blatant

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ur_moms_boy-toy@reddit

Here it is. You tell me if you see anything other than a straw man in this.

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ParticularConcept548@reddit

gif

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Berkuts_Lance_Plus@reddit

Why is this a gif?

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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

Me when i can't actually come up with a valid argument besides "but you're doing it too"

I agree that phones fucked up many aspects of our lives but pointing out that someone who says that is using a phone themselves IS NOT a good argument to make lmao.

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Dirty_Dan117@reddit

nah ur just silly

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Absolutemehguy@reddit

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Ryntex@reddit

Lmao gold

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Nivites@reddit

Porn

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6crem@reddit

You act like porn magazines and tapes did exist for that.

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Tenko-of-Mori@reddit

porn is better in 4k PC monitor, pleb

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EvoLutionCarl@reddit

I can't take my 4k PC monitor to the Zoo

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Varith83@reddit

Porn in my bed

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shakegraphics@reddit

You’re way too cooked if you need 4k to enjoy porn lmao

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overlord_of_cringe@reddit

In that case, a phone is useful for people like me, whose parents never bought a key for their door.

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Arugula_Euphoric@reddit

How is that good

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TestyBoy13@reddit

I touch my weiner and pee something white and it feels really good

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yeezusKeroro@reddit

Can browse one handed

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SuperSocialMan@reddit

real.

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I_Don-t_Care@reddit

Real what you fucking monosyllabic ape?

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OneRFeris@reddit

Everyone laughs at me when I condemn all wireless technology, but this guy gets it. We're bros now.

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Tokipudi@reddit

All the bad things about smart phones are unrelated to the fact that it is wireless.

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OneRFeris@reddit

No, I disagree there.

If smart phones weren't wireless, they wouldn't be at the dinner table, etc.

I love my desktop computer, but it would be very unhealthy if I could take it everywhere with me.

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Tokipudi@reddit

How old were you when old flip phones were the norm and smartphone did not exist?

Because nearly none of the problems in OP's posts existed then.

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Newclearfallout@reddit

I would adore a basic flip phone.

The problem with smartphones is the consistency of content being avaliable. (Social media and internet)

I can still seem busy or ignore people somewhat while texting my BF, I can still get directions, I can still listen to music. Fuck I would mind simple web pages. You can even have basic games. Simple email. Ect.

Sometimes even as a very tech savvy person...this device is to much in design and accessibility stand point. Bulky for my tiny woman pockets. It seriously just sucks you in. I cannot even explain it.

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SoupaMayo@reddit

IMHO it's more a "Blame the people who use it and not the tool" situation

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Antique_Orange_4547@reddit

Then get one

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cheater00@reddit

the issue isn't that smart phones are wireless and THAT'S IT, the problem is that they're wireless AND full computers. full computers existed before that, wireless phones existed before that, combining the two is what fucked us. you're missing his half of the point.

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OneRFeris@reddit

I don't have a problem with wired computers and wired phones. I have a problem with wireless computers and wireless phones.

And wireless drones. And wireless billboards. And wireless fucking dishwashers.

If wireless didn't exist, and we had to choose where we must physically be to connect to the internet, that exercise of choice would lead to a more healthy society. Example: you can choose to stay at home, connected to the internet. Or you can choose to leave your home and meet others who made the same choice.

You'd go to a restaurant and get handed a menu, rather than told to scan the QR code.

There'd be fewer license plate cameras, powered by wireless energy (solar) and communicating wireless with their HQ over cellular.

We would all be more free to live. And we'd still get to go home and argue like we are now. But only from our desks, not while taking a shit.

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cheater00@reddit

I'm right there with you

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MrBVS@reddit

Ah yes, QR code menus and license plate cameras. Those ruined the world.

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616659@reddit

Ok lemme whip out my 10m extension cord then lol

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L003Tr@reddit

if smart phones weren't wireless, they wouldn't be at the dinner table

Don't fault the rest of us necause you've got a shitty family bro

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OneRFeris@reddit

My family was killed by someone texting and driving, bro.

Just kidding... but could you imagine?

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die9991@reddit

See: dumbphones.

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Prestigious-Fig1172@reddit

Gay: you two together (btw you'ren't wrong)

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yeetzapizza123@reddit

I can read when I shit easier

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convenientgods@reddit

ruined uncle John’s bathroom reader

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BobDylansBasterdSon@reddit

Real ones use a laptop

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idontknowjuspickone@reddit

I’m a desk top guy personally

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CrazyAnchovy@reddit

You sit backwards on the toilet don't you?

Monitor on the tank, tower on the sink....

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HamBlamBlam@reddit

Real ones install toilets in their gaming chairs.

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BobDylansBasterdSon@reddit

Difficult with plumbing. Just move your pc to the restroom.

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ChriSaito@reddit

I don’t read shit, I shit with my Steam Deck

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Magnus_Helgisson@reddit

I could read on a Nokia 6681 a while before iPhone.

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Idaret@reddit

Book was always an option

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pibenis@reddit

You will read the labels on your shampoo bottle and be happy

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TheRealGooner24@reddit

I prefer my Kindle for that.

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artmoloch777@reddit

It makes being a genius a ubiquitous delusion. I would say ‘ubiquitous trait’ if people didn’t stand in that falsehood with such an unearned sense of authority.

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AshamedGoat2@reddit

Free porn

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Venomswindturd@reddit

Le phone bad!!!

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Confident-Evening-49@reddit

They accelerate humanity's downfall.

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misterlabowski@reddit

*Humans accelerate humanity’s downfall

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JessHorserage@reddit

Ruined information monopolies. For better and worse.

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semaj420@reddit

correct. fuck smartphones

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Noiu_xd@reddit

How did smarphones ruin internet? I think that big corporations, ads and AI had worse impact, but maybe I'm wrong

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TheChannelMiner@reddit

As long as it plays music and porn, that shit is NASA to me.

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Malofa@reddit

Ol' Ted K. tried to warn us, but we weren't ready to listen.

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saketho@reddit

internet was ruined by giving access to more people

you just suck at dating

it is fair, but its far easier to plan and coordinate stuff, especially with group chats and sending live location etc.

attention span I agree

ruined SLR photography, phones can do far more now, but why should photographers prop up an industry that barely changes? innovation has been good here, it pushed for modern mirrorless slrs. As for edited social media pics, I agree

Not much experience with customer service

agreed

I feel it made UI and software more accessible to older folks. I’m dumb as fuck and I hope that when I’m 60 and older, newer tech does get dumbed down for noobs like me.

ruined tourism. bruh

ruined entertainment; I think the music industry, film industry were already in their decline. smartphones just made the decline more visible. Gaming was new, so it took longer to hit its decline.

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Magnus_Helgisson@reddit

I didn’t suck at dating before Tinder and shit, but I can’t blame iPhone for it, I kept not sucking for quite a while before Tinder became a thing. Meanwhile dating sites existed like always and were more or less the same experience.

Regarding the photography, well. Here I can agree I suck. But it’s a bit frustrating: I used to take fairly decent pictures on an SLR camera, I studied photography a bit, did a few photosets for my friends yada yada. I wanted to become a semi-professional photographer. But then the phones learned to improve pictures and every bum can take a better photo with zero knowledge by just opening an app and tapping the shutter button. I’m discouraged as hell. I have two mirrorless cameras that take amazing pictures but in the selfie era there’s not even a market for those. Take a fugly vertical picture, let the algorithms make it look tasty, post to Instagram. Why bother?

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Lol3droflxp@reddit

How is SLR/mirrorless photography ruined? Phones are still miles away from the image quality of SLRs, especially in the more technical fields of photography.

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saketho@reddit

They’re not ruined, its just that phones are able to do so much more than SLRs and mirrorless today. Especially a lot of phones from China, like the Xiaomi 17 Ultra. For a phone it is remarkably good.

there’s a second aspect, that most casual photographers and hobbyists end up with a portfolio for their friends and family. In this regard, the audience isn’t one that can fully understand and appreciate what SLRs do. For that audience, phones are phenomenal today. So it’s an audience shift, as well as innovation in phones.

No doubt, pro cameras are still “it” for pro photos. And for those who can make a living from it. But the average consumer buying a point n shoot, or an SLR and a few lenses for home videos, family pics and portraits; that entire market is now on phones.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NINOY/nikon/revenue Nikon’s revenue has halved since 2011. For Sony and Canon it’s a little difficult as cameras aren’t their only products. Even Olympus suffered and isn’t around. Tamron is still around I think, and Fujifilm is strong.

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Lol3droflxp@reddit

If course almost nobody buys a camera anymore for family snapshots but I don’t quite understand how a smartphone can do more than a SLR in the right hands.

Using an SLR is of course more difficult, expensive and a much slower process though so it’s useful for people who just want some images taken to remember the occasion or whatever. Therefore it’s no big surprise that sales have gone down massively, SLRs are for pros and photography enthusiasts these days.

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jericho-dingle@reddit

The best thing about smart phones is Google maps. By a wide wide margin.

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Magnus_Helgisson@reddit

They were available on Symbian smartphones too, much less convenient, of course.

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galacticdude7@reddit

modern maps services are amazing, not only is it functionally an atlas of the entire world down to the street level, but with GPS it can pinpoint your exact location reasonably well, offer directions from point A to point B that can update as traffic conditions change, integrates local transit schedules into it, and is connected to a database of pretty much every business with reviews of said businesses telling you what other people think of said business.

It is amazing how much better these things are than using paper road maps or printing directions off of Mapquest

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ZenPyx@reddit

1) Google maps

2) Online, app based banking

3) Infinite music

4) Instant translation to and from hundreds of languages

I can't imagine travelling without a smartphone

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Decimator24244@reddit

Dank memes

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StrengthfromDeath@reddit

The modern day gooner lives in an unimaginable heaven compared to even the 90s gooner.

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The_Doog_s@reddit

Porn, on the train, during rush hour.

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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

Anon would literally rot and die without a phone

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MagCatRed@reddit

improved porn watching

Worth it

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saketho@reddit

Same here.

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MagCatRed@reddit

Hey friend. Please don't ever reply to one of my comments again. Thank you.

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TheYeast1@reddit

What could he possibly have said

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MagCatRed@reddit

They replied

"Same"

And then included a picture of Kermit the frog trying to figure out how to suck toes through the internet.

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Tha_Hand@reddit

Porn on the go

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redruler69@reddit

its a good tool for -light -camera and display to show/remember Things -find out nearly everything

though if i had the power to destroy smartphones/ social media, i would do it without hesitation, it ruined many years of social life experience, especially for myself.

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Vex_Appeal@reddit

It’s powerful to have a phone in your pocket but I’ll add that cellphones led to spam calls and texts to the point that it’s a bad form of communication.

I don’t answer my phone and I miss lots of texts because I’m always getting bullshit spam or political texts from the GOPedos. Email? I have 60K unread. I don’t dare go in there unless I need to find something.

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zarotabebcev@reddit

I think the camera & the bank app are pretty good. Everything else can go.

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Bland-fantasie@reddit

Yeah the food outweighs the bad for most people, even if they can’t articulate it.

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az9393@reddit

If you want to get some work done it’s pretty useful. But yeah more useful for big companies to basically get in on everyone’s life for fucking free.

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vverbov_22@reddit

Anon is wrong(nothing new)

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MrBingly@reddit

GPS/map, easy access to look up information, calculator. That's all I can think of.

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moverwhomovesthings@reddit

You can search stuff on the internet.

You donlt have to wait until you are back home and then search it, you can prove your stupid fuckwit friends wrong right then and there.

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kpingvin@reddit

maps - gps is always with you

multimedia messages - easier to send off the cuff images, videos or audio recordings

camera always at hand - eg. you get into a traffic incident, you can document it right away

instant banking - eg. instant notification of misuse of your bank account; check balance before big purchase

mobile tickets - no need to print and harder to lose

more convenient 2FA

Probably there's more, that's all I could come up with.

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Toubaboliviano@reddit

UI design… lol. Anon clearly hadn’t seen early internet sites

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Arstanishe@reddit

>ruined internet

translation: many more people are now able to use it, however they like and can. Gatekeeping much?

>ruined dating

maybe it was not the smartphones, but the dating apps? I remember in start of 2000s, how much those older sites wanted to squeeze money outta you for "premium". Sure, there were way less bots, and filters, but that is just progress for you

>socializing

Idk man, i am 43 now, nothing was ruined, i've socialized as normal?

>attention span

It was ruined already

>photography

yeah, sure. Gatekeeping again

>customer service

Idk man, it was not that bad until bots, bots ruined it

>electronics

again, not a smartphone thing. It's regulations thing. We should not allow the producers of those electronics to do that without some rules (like mandatory ability to not use it in case you don't want to)

> UI design and software

what he is talking about, i am a software dev for 20 years now, stuff got way better (*on my side at least)

>ruined tourism

huh?

>ruined entertainment

again, huh? a lot of GOATs over last 15-20 years

Anything good about smartphones? I can watch youtube while working haha, and goon in the bathroom. A huge improvement

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