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Average adult will spend 34 years with a miracle portal into infinite knowledge and possibility.

by mchusma 6y ago

SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
And will use that infinite potential to binge watch Friends for the 11th time.
- dvtrn 6y ago
  I'll have you know this is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine household, and we are on our 12th rewatch of the Dominion War, tyvm.
  - pintxo 6y ago
    If Netflix ever adds Spin City to their catalogue I will be in trouble.
    - dvtrn 6y ago
      Let me tell you how much productivity I got back when they took Frasier off last year.
    - Apocryphon 6y ago
      Newsradio for this guy
      - cableshaft 6y ago
        I have a folder of the entire series of Newsradio that's been played in the background (while I do other things, I don't even watch it, just listen)... sooo many times. Corner Gas is the only other show I've played as often.
    - sergiotapia 6y ago
      watching newsradio here, with rpcs3 classics on the second monitor
  - smegger001 6y ago
    only your 12... i may have problem.
  - Skunkleton 6y ago
    Deep Space Nine is probably my favorite TV series of all time. I've only watched it twice though. Probably gotta step it up if I am going to hang with this crowd.
  - matwood 6y ago
    I'm going through TNG right now, and the stories still hold up very well. There are a lot more useful lessons in them than I remember when watching as a kid. I really do like the humankind aspirational nature of the show also.
    - SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
      I went through TNG again a while ago and I was struck by how much I'd forgotten, and how I'd kind of lost my way in terms of my beliefs. I grew up wanting to be like Picard, and watching them again reminded me of that.
      - bityard 6y ago
        I grew up on TNG and I'm now re-watching it all with my daughter. The first season is just as rough as I remember it, but I love how much of the core themes and character of TNG they got absolutely right from the very first episode. One thing about the show that struck me is that I'm amazed at how inter-personal communication has changed over the decades. I thought I remembered everyone being a lot more easy-going when I was a kid and then decided that I must have imagined it. But no, sure enough, right there on Star Trek you see the characters poking light fun at each other not long after they first met, even in a military setting. Today people seem to take themselves much more seriously. You have to be a lot more guarded and diplomatic, sometimes even with people you know very well, otherwise you risk alienation or embarrassment. I know TV is not reality, yadda yadda, but there's a kernel of truth in there somewhere.
        SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
        It might be part of the TV era, but I imagine having people who aren't constantly on the defensive would fit into Gene's vision of a better tomorrow. If you can assume that everyone in the room is on the same team and wants the best for everyone, you probably would feel less offended by gentle jabs.
      - matwood 6y ago
        Yeah. Picard was a great leader. Humble, stern when needed, compassionate, trusting of his subordinates, etc... An amazing character.
- gfxgirl 6y ago
  I have a large collection of movies and ripped them all to Kodi. I was going though marking a bunch as watched and I started to get slightly upset at myself as I marked each one and thought "watched that one 8-10 times, watched that one 5-6 times, watched that one 3-4 times, watched that one 5-6 times, etc etc. for many many movies. And there are TV series I've watch multiple times as well. So much time. Sure I enjoyed it but counting it all up is still shocking what else that time might have been used for.
  - SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
    If you assume that rest time had no value, possibly, yeah, but we have fun for a reason. Productivity can't be the only thing in our lives.
karatestomp 6y ago
Hardly. Scratch most topics past the surface level and if you're lucky the Web can find you the book you need. Usually though you'll need to find the best book the Web can find you, then use that book and/or correspondence with experts to find the ones you actually need. The problem seems to be a mix of tons of stuff just not being on the Web yet, even decades in (some of it's in ebooks, though, yes, but a whole lot isn't) and Google having given up on "organizing the world's knowledge" or whatever their supposed mission was (now it's plainly "organize the world's advertising dollars into our bank account") so it may be there but good luck finding it.
- pharke 6y ago
  Due to the changing nature of the web I'd even say that the sum total of useful information is actually decreasing year over year. I believe we hit an inflection point a decade or more ago when the number of people with specialized knowledge and skills who were publishing information about their domain online was surpassed by the new "content creators" whose primary goal was to optimize for clicks and ad revenue. This is unevenly applied across different areas of knowledge, the amount of information about computer and media related topics has increased but other areas seem to have realized a sharp decrease. I don't have any hard numbers to support this, only the feeling of it becoming increasingly difficult to find expert information in many areas. More and more I have to resort to public domain books as the only substantive source. There's just a general sense of something deeply wrong with the current state of the web.
  - nbardy 6y ago
    Even if the content creators overwhelm the rest of the crowd now, you can still find experts and their content continues to pile up. For example, iq of internet graphics is still adding incredible content to his site 10 years later. https://iquilezles.org/ https://iquilezles.org/. He's not the only example of this. There may be a higher noise to quality ratio, but the quality content is still growing, you just have to get better at tuning out the noise.
    - asdff 6y ago
tbizz9000 6y ago
YES, it is indeed wednesday... my dude
JSavageOne 6y ago
Realistically the majority of that time is spent working for some company, writing mundane CRUD applications and gluing APIs together

Average adult will spend 34 years with a miracle portal into infinite knowledge and possibility.

SketchySeaBeast 6y ago

And will use that infinite potential to binge watch Friends for the 11th time.

dvtrn 6y ago
I'll have you know this is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine household, and we are on our 12th rewatch of the Dominion War, tyvm.
- pintxo 6y ago
  If Netflix ever adds Spin City to their catalogue I will be in trouble.
  - dvtrn 6y ago
    Let me tell you how much productivity I got back when they took Frasier off last year.
  - Apocryphon 6y ago
    Newsradio for this guy
    - cableshaft 6y ago
      I have a folder of the entire series of Newsradio that's been played in the background (while I do other things, I don't even watch it, just listen)... sooo many times. Corner Gas is the only other show I've played as often.
  - sergiotapia 6y ago
    watching newsradio here, with rpcs3 classics on the second monitor
- smegger001 6y ago
  only your 12... i may have problem.
- Skunkleton 6y ago
  Deep Space Nine is probably my favorite TV series of all time. I've only watched it twice though. Probably gotta step it up if I am going to hang with this crowd.
- matwood 6y ago
  I'm going through TNG right now, and the stories still hold up very well. There are a lot more useful lessons in them than I remember when watching as a kid. I really do like the humankind aspirational nature of the show also.
  - SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
    I went through TNG again a while ago and I was struck by how much I'd forgotten, and how I'd kind of lost my way in terms of my beliefs. I grew up wanting to be like Picard, and watching them again reminded me of that.
    - bityard 6y ago
      I grew up on TNG and I'm now re-watching it all with my daughter. The first season is just as rough as I remember it, but I love how much of the core themes and character of TNG they got absolutely right from the very first episode. One thing about the show that struck me is that I'm amazed at how inter-personal communication has changed over the decades. I thought I remembered everyone being a lot more easy-going when I was a kid and then decided that I must have imagined it. But no, sure enough, right there on Star Trek you see the characters poking light fun at each other not long after they first met, even in a military setting. Today people seem to take themselves much more seriously. You have to be a lot more guarded and diplomatic, sometimes even with people you know very well, otherwise you risk alienation or embarrassment. I know TV is not reality, yadda yadda, but there's a kernel of truth in there somewhere.
      - SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
        It might be part of the TV era, but I imagine having people who aren't constantly on the defensive would fit into Gene's vision of a better tomorrow. If you can assume that everyone in the room is on the same team and wants the best for everyone, you probably would feel less offended by gentle jabs.
    - matwood 6y ago
      Yeah. Picard was a great leader. Humble, stern when needed, compassionate, trusting of his subordinates, etc... An amazing character.
gfxgirl 6y ago
I have a large collection of movies and ripped them all to Kodi. I was going though marking a bunch as watched and I started to get slightly upset at myself as I marked each one and thought "watched that one 8-10 times, watched that one 5-6 times, watched that one 3-4 times, watched that one 5-6 times, etc etc. for many many movies. And there are TV series I've watch multiple times as well. So much time. Sure I enjoyed it but counting it all up is still shocking what else that time might have been used for.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
  If you assume that rest time had no value, possibly, yeah, but we have fun for a reason. Productivity can't be the only thing in our lives.

karatestomp 6y ago

Hardly. Scratch most topics past the surface level and if you're lucky the Web can find you the book you need. Usually though you'll need to find the best book the Web can find you, then use that book and/or correspondence with experts to find the ones you actually need. The problem seems to be a mix of tons of stuff just not being on the Web yet, even decades in (some of it's in ebooks, though, yes, but a whole lot isn't) and Google having given up on "organizing the world's knowledge" or whatever their supposed mission was (now it's plainly "organize the world's advertising dollars into our bank account") so it may be there but good luck finding it.

pharke 6y ago
Due to the changing nature of the web I'd even say that the sum total of useful information is actually decreasing year over year. I believe we hit an inflection point a decade or more ago when the number of people with specialized knowledge and skills who were publishing information about their domain online was surpassed by the new "content creators" whose primary goal was to optimize for clicks and ad revenue. This is unevenly applied across different areas of knowledge, the amount of information about computer and media related topics has increased but other areas seem to have realized a sharp decrease. I don't have any hard numbers to support this, only the feeling of it becoming increasingly difficult to find expert information in many areas. More and more I have to resort to public domain books as the only substantive source. There's just a general sense of something deeply wrong with the current state of the web.
- nbardy 6y ago
  Even if the content creators overwhelm the rest of the crowd now, you can still find experts and their content continues to pile up. For example, iq of internet graphics is still adding incredible content to his site 10 years later. https://iquilezles.org/ https://iquilezles.org/. He's not the only example of this. There may be a higher noise to quality ratio, but the quality content is still growing, you just have to get better at tuning out the noise.
  - asdff 6y ago

tbizz9000 6y ago

YES, it is indeed wednesday... my dude

JSavageOne 6y ago

Realistically the majority of that time is spent working for some company, writing mundane CRUD applications and gluing APIs together