More specific questions would help. The biggest changes I notice are related to Internet and communication. The fundamentals were about the same. Now there’s more focus on convenience, less on doing things yourself. I mean the store didn’t sell bags of pre-grated cheese and pre-shredded lettuce - those things would have seemed stupid (well I mean they still are, but somehow they don’t seem like it).
It’s so weird too. I also buy preshredded cheese but it is noticeably less good and shredding isn’t that difficult so I don’t understand it.
I mean now that I need a bit of shredded cheese to get my dog to eat, I’m not dirtying a grater every meal for a small biteful
Similar to pre-shredded lettuce. I do buy it and it does help me eat it more frequently, but buying a head would be much cheaper and better, and it’s not like shredding it is time consuming. I don’t understand it
People need dogs to be on a reasonable schedule. It makes it much easier to predict when they’ll need to go outside and more importantly to control when they’ll can be left home while everyone is at work
Sure dogs will eat when they’re hungry, but some dogs will “graze” throughout the day. … then I come home to find dog shit on my floor
Sure dogs need mealtimes, but once they’re house-trained no dog I’ve ever had has shat on the floor unless they’re sick. It works if you give yourself time to feed the dog and go outside for a little play and a shit before rushing off to your day.
Totally. People would debate facts in arguments because you couldn’t just Google it. Okay, I know you might say it’s the same today with MAGA or whatever. But I mean like silly things like which car is faster, which country is bigger etc, who sang a certain song or played a certain character in a movie.
Ready access to the facts is a huge loss. These conversations used to drive a lot of social interactions that no longer exist.
Realistically is it more important that we know who played a certain character in a movie or that we had a a group of friends spending time together discussing it?
And even better now that it’s written down and we have a moment to think before responding, our witty repartee can include complaints about grammar, typing and autocorrect, etc. we can hound someone mercilessly with ridicule and follow them online, where in real life they could have just left
We also get to assume whoever we’re enaging with is the dumbest or most vile human being that ever wasted oxygen, and dump all the frustrations of our lives onto them, which they richly deserve for making that typo or misusing that semicolon!
One thing that’s missing is the sense of wondering about something. “I’ve always wondered…” is kind of an anachronism, now that it’s trivial to look up almost anything we wonder about. “I’ve always wondered” has become, “For some reason I’ve never asked this extra brain I carry around all the time.”
More specific questions would help. The biggest changes I notice are related to Internet and communication. The fundamentals were about the same. Now there’s more focus on convenience, less on doing things yourself. I mean the store didn’t sell bags of pre-grated cheese and pre-shredded lettuce - those things would have seemed stupid (well I mean they still are, but somehow they don’t seem like it).
It’s so weird too. I also buy preshredded cheese but it is noticeably less good and shredding isn’t that difficult so I don’t understand it.
I mean now that I need a bit of shredded cheese to get my dog to eat, I’m not dirtying a grater every meal for a small biteful
Similar to pre-shredded lettuce. I do buy it and it does help me eat it more frequently, but buying a head would be much cheaper and better, and it’s not like shredding it is time consuming. I don’t understand it
Dogs don’t need bribes to eat. If your dog won’t eat it means your dog isn’t hungry yet.
People need dogs to be on a reasonable schedule. It makes it much easier to predict when they’ll need to go outside and more importantly to control when they’ll can be left home while everyone is at work
Sure dogs will eat when they’re hungry, but some dogs will “graze” throughout the day. … then I come home to find dog shit on my floor
Sure dogs need mealtimes, but once they’re house-trained no dog I’ve ever had has shat on the floor unless they’re sick. It works if you give yourself time to feed the dog and go outside for a little play and a shit before rushing off to your day.
Totally. People would debate facts in arguments because you couldn’t just Google it. Okay, I know you might say it’s the same today with MAGA or whatever. But I mean like silly things like which car is faster, which country is bigger etc, who sang a certain song or played a certain character in a movie.
Ready access to the facts is a huge loss. These conversations used to drive a lot of social interactions that no longer exist.
Realistically is it more important that we know who played a certain character in a movie or that we had a a group of friends spending time together discussing it?
Instead of conversation we now have contentious arguments about whatever randomly scrolls in front of us.
And even better now that it’s written down and we have a moment to think before responding, our witty repartee can include complaints about grammar, typing and autocorrect, etc. we can hound someone mercilessly with ridicule and follow them online, where in real life they could have just left
We also get to assume whoever we’re enaging with is the dumbest or most vile human being that ever wasted oxygen, and dump all the frustrations of our lives onto them, which they richly deserve for making that typo or misusing that semicolon!
One thing that’s missing is the sense of wondering about something. “I’ve always wondered…” is kind of an anachronism, now that it’s trivial to look up almost anything we wonder about. “I’ve always wondered” has become, “For some reason I’ve never asked this extra brain I carry around all the time.”