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>And it was all Google Maps’ fault. No, it was your fault. Paper maps can be, and almost certainly all are, wrong. It is normal to blame a paper map if you sa

>And it was all Google Maps’ fault. No, it was your fault. Paper maps can be, and almost certainly all are, wrong. It is normal to blame a paper map if you sail off the edge of the Earth where the map says there ought to be more sea? Even if you run into an island where there should be no island, or drive into a space that should be fit for cars but is not, your hands are on the wheel and your feet are on the pedals. >Consider this: have you ever been in a situation where you’ve seen a beautiful landscape or watched something funny happening and your first thought is, “how can I take a picture of this for Instagram?” No. Something is wrong with this person's brain.

Symbiote 2y ago
You need to read the next paragraph of the article.
- snakeyjake 2y ago
  "lol j/k it's really because I made the mistake of trusting the computer" is deflective nonsense.
  - jjulius 2y ago
    The way I read it, is that they admitted to what you accused them of - over-reliance on smartphones. What else do you want them to say?
jmalicki 2y ago
> It is normal to blame a paper map if you sail off the edge of the Earth where the map says there ought to be more sea? That's what the US Navy does (in part) when a $3 billion submarine hits an underwater mountain. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/01/politics/navy-submarine-underwater-mountain/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/01/politics/navy-submarine-under...
- snakeyjake 2y ago
  That event is perfectly illustrative of my point. You can't even see out of a submarine but still the commander, executive officer, and chief of the boat of that submarine were fired because no matter what technology or capabilities exist it is the responsibility of the person in control of the machine to control the machine.
- joseda-hg 2y ago
  To be fair, US military anything is about as far as you can be from normalcy
jjulius 2y ago
>No. >Something is wrong with this person's brain. I hope we're all self-aware enough to know that we're making these comments on a website that was ostensibly designed to support the industry that is/has been responsible for convincing the collective masses that everything needs to be shared on social media and that we need to be wholly reliant on our smartphones just to make it through the day. I don't disagree that this person is responsible for their own choices, but it's not like there hasn't been a tremendous push to get people to view life like this.
dang 2y ago
Please don't cross into personal attack. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- snakeyjake 2y ago
  That was not a personal attack it was an evidence-based assertion. What I wrote is not, has never been in any context, and will never be for all of time until the heat death of the universe, a personal attack. I can provide an example of a personal attack, if so required.
  - dang 2y ago
    "Something is wrong with this person's brain" is obviously a cheap personal internet swipe, and that's not allowed here. Please edit those out in the future, as the site guidelines ask.

Symbiote 2y ago

You need to read the next paragraph of the article.

snakeyjake 2y ago
"lol j/k it's really because I made the mistake of trusting the computer" is deflective nonsense.
- jjulius 2y ago
  The way I read it, is that they admitted to what you accused them of - over-reliance on smartphones. What else do you want them to say?

jmalicki 2y ago

> It is normal to blame a paper map if you sail off the edge of the Earth where the map says there ought to be more sea? That's what the US Navy does (in part) when a $3 billion submarine hits an underwater mountain. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/01/politics/navy-submarine-underwater-mountain/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/01/politics/navy-submarine-under...

snakeyjake 2y ago
That event is perfectly illustrative of my point. You can't even see out of a submarine but still the commander, executive officer, and chief of the boat of that submarine were fired because no matter what technology or capabilities exist it is the responsibility of the person in control of the machine to control the machine.
joseda-hg 2y ago
To be fair, US military anything is about as far as you can be from normalcy

jjulius 2y ago

>No. >Something is wrong with this person's brain. I hope we're all self-aware enough to know that we're making these comments on a website that was ostensibly designed to support the industry that is/has been responsible for convincing the collective masses that everything needs to be shared on social media and that we need to be wholly reliant on our smartphones just to make it through the day. I don't disagree that this person is responsible for their own choices, but it's not like there hasn't been a tremendous push to get people to view life like this.

dang 2y ago

Please don't cross into personal attack. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

snakeyjake 2y ago
That was not a personal attack it was an evidence-based assertion. What I wrote is not, has never been in any context, and will never be for all of time until the heat death of the universe, a personal attack. I can provide an example of a personal attack, if so required.
- dang 2y ago
  "Something is wrong with this person's brain" is obviously a cheap personal internet swipe, and that's not allowed here. Please edit those out in the future, as the site guidelines ask.