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It works for me in the US. If you have an account it gets you straight to Henri’s Sommer’s page.

It is on many people’s mind.

Yeah, those gay charities, look how bad they are, with all their drug advocating! Openly using “white” and “party” like this! Despicable. http://whiteparty.org/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Party (This was sarcasm, for those who didn’t realise) I am going to meet him and report back.

I am sorry you didn’t have a good experience @freecahill1965 , it seems however that you taught him a few things, because I had such a good time today, that I am going to repeat with him before he leaves NYC. Perfect body, perfect smile, decent kisser, a little shy but opens up after a while. I think we are are going to flip flop next time!

How many like this did you get? Are they all the same, or did he try to be creative in his insults?

These are Borat references, right?

More on technical revolutions: I remember clearly my uncles saying that calculators would be the doom of society, because I wasn’t as quick as them to do a division by hand. We are going to loose our intellectual ability to calculate! They even told me, verbatim: “you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket, you know!” Well guess what, within 3 years of hearing that, I owned a Casio wristwatch that was also a calculator! When I confronted them, they refused to admit they had ever said that. When TV arrived, many people said it would all make us stupid because people would stop reading. You could just watch a documentary about the Amazonian forest instead of reading about it! People are going to forget how to read! When writing became common in antiquity, many people said it would all make us stupid, because people wouldn’t have to memorise the old tales of the gods, like the Iliad, anymore, they could just read them from a papyrus instead of learning them by heart. We would loose our ability to memorise! I am not saying societal changes cannot cause harm, but we need some evidence that people are actually getting harmed (in larger numbers that in the past) to make that claim. Otherwise, it is just different, or, when it is more efficient, better.

Brilliant, @oldNbusted . I am surprised by the bluntness of the operator. I had assumed that people who have a telephone would be wealthy, and so were shown some respect by an operator, since they were 1. Talking to a customer and 2. The operator was himself/herself just a lowly technician, but apparently the language was quite classless (in the good meaning of this word) and straight to the point.

Impressive. I had forgotten how TV series in the eighties were not all about entertainement, but some were deeply educational. Is there the equivalent for kids these days?

You make a lot of points worth considering in detail here. Critical thinking is highly useful when you need to smell the marketing bullshit (which you hated spewing). Unfortunately that does require advanced thinking capacity. So, sure, you can claim I have joined a herd of critical thinkers if you want. I don’t really care about labels. Oh no, they are not dumber. Absolutely not. Quite the contrary, on average, they are cleverer than our generation. They know how to use tools and concepts we struggle with. And yes, they don’t know our old concepts, but that is simply because they won’t need those concepts. Don’t clutter your brain with useless stuff: that is clever. You may be right here, but I am not sure it will have a bad effect. Maybe it will make society more efficient. Maybe people will be forced to be brief and to the point. Which will lead to easier communication, and faster decision making, based on the important points, and not based on who made the longest, most convoluted speech. Yep, that is efficient too. Still, not in every aspect: our society continues to specialise, especially with regards to work. So while some people have a broad, not very deep knowledge of most things, which gives them the bigger picture, they also have one or two deep areas of expertise, in their work domain. So I don’t really see anything wrong with that. Sure, but isn’t it just like: the norms in which we grew up are very different from the norms of people who grew up before WWII, and theirs were different from of the Victorians’ civility norms? Can we really claim that our civility norms are better than those of the coming generations? I mean, I like them because I grew up with them, but in which sense are they actually better?

Seems what you are saying is that some very clever people have found a way to make money involving the control of the attention of less clever people. Well, no news there. Advertising existed in ancient Egypt. All that has changed is the scale. My message to all these people that are focused on their Facebook feed or similar: Wisen up. Don’t believe what you are told. You can read crap if you enjoy it, sure, as long as you think critically about it. Unfortunately thinking critically requires being clever on some level. There is nothing else we can do, we can’t make stupid and averagely clever people suddenly clever and wise. And we can’t prevent clever marketing people from using perfectly legal technics to grab their attention.

The video is not actually about information overload, it is mostly about disinformation and attention span. I feel the title is a bit of a click bait. They are doing what they are complaining about. I personally don't feel any information overload, I am still quite often bored and unable to find something interesting. The phrase is apparently "running out of Internet" as in: "I have listened to all my favorite postcasts and read my latest kindle book, the forums are quiet, no new nice game to try out... I have run out of Internet".

Well, isn't there more to that, like being able to adapt to the present company, maybe based on some non-verbal clues that the way you are behaving is not enjoyed?

Lol, what are they doing? It is called "Rent.... Men". You can rent men, but you can't hire them? Are they changing the site's name soon?

“Where have you been?” Indeed, where have I been that I missed Cordoba? Now I have one more city on my to do list. It will never end! Thanks, @marylander1940 , I learned sth today.

No progress. Now really curious ...

I was a user of secondlife in the early stages in 2004. It was terrible, the rendering and network lag was so bad, I guess my home internet was not great either, which was making things worse. Recently I read “Ready Player One” and today I went to see the movie. After that, I though I would go to see if second life had improved and if the experience would feel better from a FIOS connection. It has been 14 years, a huge amount of time in computing. I was quite disappointed, the menus are just as difficult to navigate, and the movements are not really more realistic than they were back then. In places where there are too many avatars, it is quite hard to walk around smoothly. They haven’t invested in it. The one thing that is different is that people are talking using headsets, rather than writing, but apart from that nothing new. It seems to be dying, the number of people in most places that I visited was 0 or 1, except the welcome centres. Is the concept never going to grow to a viable business model?

Nope, I am getting nowhere. Google image searches of “old bridge in ...“ with Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Carthage, Florence, Milan, lugdonum/lyons, etc show me nothing that looks like this.

This one is really interesting and hard to find online. I don’t think I have seen this bridge, so I am looking for search words that could help. What do you call the bridge’s feet in English (the massive triangular shapes between the arches)?

Nope.

I am not a member and I can see the text.

Indeed, they are officially advertising pornstars. Surely porn stars don’t make movies for free? So necessarily these pornstars will have sex (officially, on set only) for money. Unless they remove the “pornstar” label, their entire site is for “sex against money” people. So removing the fees doesn’t change anything about the nature of their site. It just makes a movie producer less able to have all the information he needs for hiring an actor.

Good question, do they have to have actually fathered a child to be a DILF? Or is it just the look of a dad (whatever that is) that matters? Or just the age?

NO! Unless it is not a surprise and was discussed before.

At home, I never go for a number 2 without my ipad.