As a call center worker whose job is mostly reading people our website and telling them what the words mean, stupidity is job security. AI is still years away from deciphering their illiteracy.
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If everywhere you go smells like shit. Maybe check your own shoes.
Shit. There was a big ol dog turd on mine!
when you say "refuse to listen to me" do you mean they don't do what you tell them to do?
what does "not listen to you" actually mean to you
Ignore and make fun of me basically.
I'm not being an ass about it when I speak with them either. I'm just sick of being stuck on shitty platforms that dont respect us. My general messages every so often are "hey guys, could we change to a different platform because I'm trying to get off of fb as much as possible" etc. Or, "yeah I stopped using google products long ago and my life has improved so much. Google tracks every place you go and works with corporations to raise prices and target you specifically, making life worse for everyone. Firefox is awesome and I havent seen an add in a decade. You should try!"
I'm actively trying to improve their lives but they just dont do it. Or when I see a friend watching 3 YouTube ads to show me a 30 second video . like dude...can I please h3lo you escape some of this capitalistic hellhole by showing you newpipe or unlock?
You sound like a pompous jackass, you should try a bit of humility.
Yeah I'm being super Douchy as I am ranting 😆. I'm more just annoyed because people will not listen to me even though I (factually) know more than them and want to help them free themselves from their addiction to big tech and show them how great things could be. Yeah that sounds super jerky, but would I sound less douchey if I'm trying to explain to people why authoritarianism and fascism is wrong and they should quit listening to fox news propaganda? Its the same thing. I think we would all say that those of us not falling for fox new propaganda (and us not on X)are just smarter people. It sounds pompous but sorry, its true.
Well thanks for clarifying that you are in fact a douche. You have made it quite obvious why they don't listen to you.
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I can't stand how dumb I am.
I can't stand how dumb you are either.
Nah, youre already smart because you know you dont know it all. The issue is people like my friend who thinks he's going to go work in data centers because ai is totally the future (he's an idiot that believes he's a genius, and that ancap philosophy is foolproof, oh and he hates lgbtq people. He's constantly on X, loves elon, and watches all the manosphere videos on YouTube).
Youre miles smarter than those people.
why is this person considered your friend?
I ask myself this sometimes. He is just following the wrong path and really likes to be a contrarian on everything, so he gravitates to bad content. He is at least receptive to other viewpoints so its not a total lost cause. He has a deep seated mistrust of government but for some reason blind worship of corporations (see:atlas shrugged). Which I know is a paradox since they are one and the same.
Do they want to get off of big tech? Most people are completely happy and have no reason to switch.
Exactly, thats the issue. Hence the rant haha
You need their needs to be unmet to meet your needs... See how that doesn't work?
People will work to resolve their issues with tech if they ever have them. You know things they don't because at some point you wanted/needed to, but they don't. They don't care and have no reason to.
They should care because it controls every aspect of their life and their future, their job, their housing, whether police break in and murder them, etc. Being ignorant about it is very stupid when its so easy to learn.
The reason big tech controls the world and all governments is because people let them. Because they again have no idea the implication of the tech they use.
Its not having their needs unmet, that makes zero sense. They literally cannot survive without tiktok? Thats pathetic. They will keel over if they change messenger apps or navigation apps that dont support fascists?
They should, sure. But you're going to waste your time and theirs and probably annoy the heck out of them. These services are popular for a reason. Switching from them is going to cost time, money, or quality of service in some way. If they don't care, they're not going to sacrifice any of these to gain nothing in their eyes.
Yep, hence my frustrations. Still gonna try anyway. I have convinced a small number to change and they are so much happier.
People are social creatures, not logical ones. Your "attempts at convincing" are probably personal attacks. Hell, you're personally attacking everyone who you even imagine disagreeing with you in this thread.
If I were to tell you to "Use Linux, you stupid shit!", I would have made an effective advert against the use of Linux. This wouldn't be a failure of the recipient, it would be my own as the communicator.
You might not understand, but ignoring such an "advice" is not ignorance, but healthy self-respect. Just imagine if your position was wrong and you didn't realise: a disrespectful attitude would only showcase that you're not just belligerent, but also an idiot.
Your rant is a perfect distillation of what you should change about yourself and why. To dumb it down for you: you're keeping people away from good things. Thinking they deserve it doesn't make you smarter, just more of an asshole.
I can see that. And I never act like that to anyone when discussing tech.
Example the other day among co workers , they mentioned how horrible windows is, so bad that they havent used their laptops in years and just use their phone because windows is so garbage. I explained how Much better my life has been using Linux only and they were amazed that someone who isnt a computer scientist could use Linux. That was a good time to explain how easy its become now and anyone can do it!
I just hate to see people driven to their spyware phones because windows has made the user experience horrible and hostile. One example.
I guess I dont get it becuase when someone more knowledgeable than me tells me something, I listen.
can you teach me how to get rich pls?
- Buy tokens
- Spend on ai machine ???
- Grift into being rich
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i can't see your message replies because of the block
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Are you deaf? I can't see it because of the block.
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i can't read your replies!!!!!
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Please stop posting duplicate comments.
Just buy my book "how yo become rich" for $100.
(It's all blank pages after: "sell books like this")
This is a pyramid scheme and you will go to jail if you do it :(
No because I'm rich.
prove it by sending me money
Of course not, that would make me poor
pls
Ok then.
Thanks so much!
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You can't expect to get normal people on nerd stuff like this just like that. I drop references to distributed social media and the nerd thing I do and wait for them to get curious.
Computers and online life stopped being "nerd stuff" maybe what , 15 years ago? This is essential knowledge thats embedded in everyone's life, work, leisure time, friends, everything.
People are driving an f1 car when all they've ever done is ridden a tricycle.
many people have not used computers much outside of their smatphone. I know them. Many others are not real good with non standard things. Heck I can't get them to use password managers. Now granted they will. Maybe. Eventually. Many of them could not handle making facebook accounts or their own email (work ones were setup for them)
Yep very true. I could say the same about other stuff too like clothes (people wear them every day but they have no idea how to use a loom! Idiots!!).
I feel like its a lot easier to learn simple tech than to make clothes though, thats just me.
I think fashion would be more apt. people know how to wear clothes but many people don't know how to dress well or look good or be up on fashion.
Oh very true, I'm one of those. I do hate the fact that clothes are still made in awful sweatshops and its hard to find any that aren't. Buying used helps but I cant do that for everything.
You deserve smarter friends. Go find them.
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