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I admire the hell out of these kids. If I had a little more strength in my own convictions, a little more willpower, I would probably go flip-phone only too. Y
by floren 4y ago
I admire the hell out of these kids. If I had a little more strength in my own convictions, a little more willpower, I would probably go flip-phone only too.
Yes, they're kind of posturing and pretentious, but in ways that remind me of myself in high school; I feel like I get them. Your average high school kid is a lot more confusing to me these days.
I did have to laugh at this:
> "I talked to my adviser, though, and he told me most revolutions actually start with people from industrious backgrounds, like Che Guevara."
I wasn't sure what they meant by "industrious backgrounds"; apparently it means "wealthy" based on Guevara's wikipedia page. She's in good company, though... Ho Chi Minh and Lenin grew up privileged too.
- 082349872349872 4y agoTry flip an hour a day and work up. We used to only have landlines and phortress phones, and yet somehow still survived. I always liked how 1984's Goldstein said that in principle Inner Party children did not automatically become Inner themselves.
- derwiki 4y agoWhat is a phortress phone?
- 082349872349872 4y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=pay+phone+booth&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=pay+phone+booth&tbm=isch a pay phone (phortress, because it was safer to phreak from than a home phone)
- MonkeyClub 4y agoFor the nostalgia of it: https://www.2600.com/payphones https://www.2600.com/payphones
- rootusrootus 4y ago> We used to only have landlines and phortress phones A few weeks ago I was at our local train station and there was an honest-to-god payphone. Walked up to it, picked up the receiver, and got dial tone. I had figured they were all gone now but apparently not quite yet.
- lzauz 4y agoYou just have to look at the pictures of the article to see that they have money.
- adingus 4y agoI don't get the 'classist' argument at all. You don't need to be rich to want to stop doomscrolling, or to put your phone down for an hour. It sounds more like the kids who call it 'classist' understand phone addiction but don't want to face the fact its actually bad for them... like when an overweight person says 'Id rather enjoy life than eat that salad, I bet that in-shape person is a bore to be around!"
- threads2 4y agoI think everyone's just getting sick of rich kids
- floren 4y agoOh, absolutely. When I was a teen, you'd be called some sort of homophobic slur for refusing to go along with the current zeitgeist. Now, it's more effective to force conformity by calling people classist/racist/etc., and the kids know it too.
- civopsec 4y agoAlthough not Stalin