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Please don't whip out your laptop in a restaurant.

• MrThoughtful 3y ago
  Restaurants are great places of adventure where very different types of people come together. Please don't harm these oasis of diversity by telling people what to do :) It would make the world such a boring place. I think visiting restaurants to meet with interesting people is one of the great joys in life. And when interesting people meet, there almost always comes up something to try out or look up online. It feels we are so near to the singularity, that every moment is like a wild ride. I meet people in restaurants a couple of days per week. Only once did a waiter complain about the laptop on the table. I just never went to that restaurant again.
  • yieldcrv 3y ago
    I don’t think your experience is invalid, you are just missing out on other experiences that accomplish the same things you like about your disruptive laptop dependent approach for the sake of AI and machines when the humans have so much infrastructure catering exclusively to us… behind reservations
  • geraldwhen 3y ago
    Do you have trouble parsing social situations by any chance? One waiter complained. Many, many more complained about you without bringing it up, and you likely disturbed others who were eating as well. Find meaning outside a laptop. It exists.
• Animats 3y ago
  That's what Starbucks used to be for, before they removed the tables and chairs.