What’s on your mind?

[PandaPunch]

What is on my mind is how much of our modern world is the exception, not the norm. Our modern day to day experiences are filled with so much information and input that our ancestors wouldn't have had throughout the course of their whole lives. Relationships these days come off as transactional, you can go online and see anything you want, when before the modern era you'd be lucky to see one at all.

In the times before the internet, information traveled generally traveled much more slowly and people had a lot more time to think about things before coming to a conclusion on what they thought about them. I feel like a lot of people these days are overloaded with information and emotional energy. Common sense, taking time to think about things, and carrying one's self with a sense of purpose seems like a rarity.

Maybe I just feel like an old soul.

I ended up reducing so much of my digital noise in the last 7 months or so, now I have to somewhat learn how to be bored. Now I can look at a Youtube feed and think to myself, "None of this is super interesting at all" to almost every video.

I do agree with people being overloaded but at the exact same time, they can make a different choice. They don't have to use Internet content 24/7 to drown out the silence as they eat or use the toilet, that's a decision they made. They also don't have to engage with the same angry content by watching it or commenting on it either. After this year, I've started to come around to the idea that when talking about people who spend a ton of time online engaging with unproductive spaces, it seems like people either enjoy the overwhelmingly negative spaces or at least tolerate it because they think there's no safe space for them either online or offline.

 

[ClaraStahlbaum]

I ended up reducing so much of my digital noise in the last 7 months or so, now I have to somewhat learn how to be bored. Now I can look at a Youtube feed and think to myself, "None of this is super interesting at all" to almost every video.

I do agree with people being overloaded but at the exact same time, they can make a different choice. They don't have to use Internet content 24/7 to drown out the silence as they eat or use the toilet, that's a decision they made. They also don't have to engage with the same angry content by watching it or commenting on it either. After this year, I've started to come around to the idea that when talking about people who spend a ton of time online engaging with unproductive spaces, it seems like people either enjoy the overwhelmingly negative spaces or at least tolerate it because they think there's no safe space for them either online or offline.

In the past few months I have ended up removing myself from various communities I was involved in due to overwhelming toxicity. I have no idea why I put up with it as long as I did - as I don't find myself missing those kind of interactions one bit. Going forward I will be staying far away from toxic groups.

What you say is a better way to put it than I did.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

It seems like a friend has gone away.

Some 8 1/2 years ago, I agreed to be part of Australia's Measuring Broadband program.
They sent me a little white box, called, surprisingly a White Box.
I plugged it in, and every month they sent me a little email telling me how good (or bad) my broadband was).

Initially my plan was ADSL, at 50 Mbps.
Then we upgraded to Fiber To The Node (FTTN), where it was optic fibre to a little box down the street, and normal telephone cable to the house. Because of our distance, we couldn't get the 100 Mbps we were signed up for, but only a little over 80.

As you can see, we had a problem at the end of one particular month.

We called up the Internet people, who came out, diagnosed that water had gotten in to the pit outside our house, and corroded some electrical joints. They re-did the joints, and everything was fixed, for a time...

Finally, more recently, we were upgraded to Fibre To The Premises (FTTP), where the optic fibre cable comes to the house. No more corroded joints.

Anyway, given that most of Australia has now been upgraded to FTTP, the program has been ended.

Vale, little White Box.

 

[boppin]

The situation is easing. Temperatures have dropped significantly, and it is mostly raining. The residents of Gey can return to their homes.

Information from Google Weather

Rain showers.
Feels like 15 degrees. High of 20 degrees. Low of 15 degrees.