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Old 08-16-2023, 12:49 PM   #17826
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I'm trying to learn to do that, the whole racist dialogue thing is just so new that it's caught me off guard. And I think I've identified the source... but there's not much I can do about it because it's her best friend.

That said, I think the best friend has gone that way because of exactly what whitev70r said... her husband passed away and she's extremely aware of her own mortality now/doesn't know what to do without him and she's turned totally dark and taking my mom with her on that journey.

My mom also refuses to believe that she can't hear properly anymore, even though I can easily walk into the house and up the stairs and completely surprise her that I'm even there lol. Super in denial about so much stuff........
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Old 08-16-2023, 01:04 PM   #17827
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My mom has started learning how to use Facebook and YouTube in the past couple of years.

It's fucking scary when she comes up to me with scam texts on her phone or app notifications offering free things.

It's frustrating when she watches YouTube videos from WeChat University and starts spewing random broscience.
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Old 08-16-2023, 02:30 PM   #17828
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That’s why we need more old fucks like mg1. That generation who were born in the 50s and 60s are ill adapted for social media and the digital age. It’s too easy to scare and fool them.

My dad is on TikTok trying to get likes for his art work and pictures of my dog. He thinks he has legion of fans just cuz he has 2000 followers. I’m like dad, those are 2000 bots or retards who have no life.

Best thing was he posted a picture of my ratrolla and everyone called him a douche. So he went around replying to all the comments telling them to fuck off.

Oh and he also added everyone suggested to him on Facebook so now he has like 4000 Arab friends all named Mohammad. Pretty sure my dads gonna be on a terrorist watch list shortly.

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At the same time no one is forcing anyone to watch that content.

Would you rather have Justin hand picking what’s fed to people? Lol it’s bad enough with the CBC etc.

There’s no middle ground really, you search every news outlet and it’s got some weird bias/dubious ownership. Imo most of this “news” wouldn’t have any impact on you if you never saw it to begin with. I think the issue are the algorithms that spoon feed you the stuff reinforcing your views based on the “news” being directed to you
Lol gotta shoehorn Trudeau into every conversation now?

I don't forsee our generation having a much better go at things once AI picks up the pace in 10, 20 years.
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Old 08-16-2023, 03:28 PM   #17830
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It is also extremely disappointing how such a large number of people have no ability to discern between real facts and dubious claims. Granted, mainstream media is far from perfect, and would of course have their political leanings as well. Still, wouldn't your BS alarm go off when stuff has repeatedly been proven to be false / fake?

It is exactly like the meme that says:

Parents then: Don't believe everything you see on TV.
Parents now: But I saw it in my Fackbook group!

Thanks to the idiotic Bill C-18, all that's left now on FB for Canadians is everything EXCEPT mainstream media.

In an effort to "save journalism" the Canadian Gov't is basically destroying it and lot of jobs in the process.
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Old 08-16-2023, 05:31 PM   #17831
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Needed a haircut. I cut my own hair, but can't get a few spots, like the neck. Anyway, I used to go to this place in New West. Today, I decided to get a cheap chinaman haircut. Went to Lucky Hair Cut in chinatown (in a small mall across from the old Kent's Kitchen on Keefer). $13.00. A few C-Lai's were getting their hair done. Noisy as fuck, but whatever............ there was this old guy. By old, I mean maybe 70+ I asked for a #1. I have never had such a wAnderful haircut in my life. Doesn't mater where I go, they never get the hairs on my neck. This guy puts lather on my hairline and neck. He then starts to strop a straight edge razor. Kind of thought, "How steady is his hand?" He did a great job. Never felt so good. I gave him $16.00. He was very thankful.

Apparently there's a place on Main Street called, CP Barbers or something like that - haircut for $8.50. Like wtf?


I was at Neptoon Records today, and the barber shop next door wanted $35.00. Seniors pricing.
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Has anyone here had to deal with aging parents who start to get really weird views on stuff? Like, they've been normal politically speaking or religiously most of their life but then suddenly it's like they start latching onto FB groups or talking incessantly to small groups of people who have... less than ideal views of the world?

My mom is up there in age now and in the last 6 months I basically can't go over to their house anymore without getting in a big argument with her because she just goes on and on about trans people and pronouns and that she's glad Gal Gadot isn't in the Barbie movie because she's Israeli and "Barbie isn't Israeli" to which I told her if she actually watched the movie she'd realize how ridiculous that statement is since the whole point of the movie is that anyone can be Barbie. It culminated the other day in a mini-rant about China people forcing us out of our own city in front of my GF who, despite growing up in Canada, is from China. Of course she threw in the obligatory "except you" at the end because that makes it all better.

It's becoming quite tedious and I'm concerned about her shutting off, she seems to be becoming more and more negative and miserable the more she gets into this stuff. Suggestions to talk to different people or change up her echo room a bit or perhaps even just realize that what she's reading might not be truthful have so far fallen on very deaf ears.
It's not just old people but certainly everyone has become more "woke" but in the aspect of aware vs. what right wings use to describe left wing people.

I have friends who are in their 40's now that had zero issues with trans and gay people and now suddenly there's a prob. And this is for items outside of the entire trans discussion too....mind you i do currently live in Alberta and even the educated sound like the truck convoy here.
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Old 08-16-2023, 05:59 PM   #17833
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I beg to differ. People my age are very aware of technology. We were the ones who started it all. My son said to me one day that I was always first to embrace new technologies. I admit, it has become harder to keep up with new advances in technology, but there are way more young people out there who are clueless. It kind of scares me, actually. Have and have not society.

Also, it all comes down to how we treat each other. I can't believe how shitty people are nowadays. With technology, it has made it so much harder to keep a good moral compass.

I don't watch news anymore. Definitely nothing on social media or podcasts. Social influencers, whathaveyou. Anyway, RS, ftmfw!

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You’re the exception. Ya you guys might have invented the fundamental technology behind this mess, but it’s navigating this cesspool of humanity that has many of your generation stumped.

Hell i can imagine turning into a grumpy racist old fuck when I hit your age. I’ll probably call everyone a retard and a fag cuz back in my days, these words weren’t bound to such sensitive topics. Everyone was a retard and everyone was a fag

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I still catch myself saying things that are no longer acceptable.

I used to use the word gay all the fucking time. My daughter keeps reminding me not to do that.

I have these little spoons and forks in the cutlery drawer. I keep calling them gay forks and gay spoons............

Retarded/Retard is another hard one to keep in check.
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You’re the exception. Ya you guys might have invented the fundamental technology behind this mess, but it’s navigating this cesspool of humanity that has many of your generation stumped.

Hell i can imagine turning into a grumpy racist old fuck when I hit your age. I’ll probably call everyone a retard and a fag cuz back in my days, these words weren’t bound to such sensitive topics. Everyone was a retard and everyone was a fag

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The cesspool party is there are just too many types all of a sudden for some people to wrap their heads around. It was binary until all of a sudden it wasn't. It's much easier to manage and respond to when there's only 2 choices plus gay.

I'm in no way against LGBTQ+... I don't know where it ends right now, but just like at work, when a lot of new things are introduced at the same time you'll have some people who just want to stick with the old ways. "What's wrong with doing billing with pen and paper? Why do I have memorize all these codes for all the products?" That afflicts people young and old.

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I still catch myself saying things that are no longer acceptable.

I used to use the word gay all the fucking time. My daughter keeps reminding me not to do that.

I have these little spoons and forks in the cutlery drawer. I keep calling them gay forks and gay spoons............

Retarded/Retard is another hard one to keep in check.
The retard one is hard. Been using it for the last 20 years, I'm sure longer for you, so it's a habit that's hard to get rid of.

The word gay was much easier because there were always lots of gay people around me and it was never a insult.
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I'm not giving up the R word. I'll be sensible with where and how I use it, but you can be sure that it's one of those words that gets the point across when someone is being a retard.
How are you supposed to let your buddy know he's being retarded if you aren't allowed to call him a retard?
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I'm not giving up the R word. I'll be sensible with where and how I use it, but you can be sure that it's one of those words that gets the point across when someone is being a retard.
How are you supposed to let your buddy know he's being retarded if you aren't allowed to call him a retard?
Retard, Stupid, Idiot, Moron, Imbecile, and many more words describing mental deficiency all came from the same place, and relatively the same time. They are all medical terms that eventually got used as colloquial insults, but for some reason only one of them got canceled. That's what I don't understand...
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I still catch myself saying things that are no longer acceptable.

I used to use the word gay all the fucking time. My daughter keeps reminding me not to do that.

I have these little spoons and forks in the cutlery drawer. I keep calling them gay forks and gay spoons............

Retarded/Retard is another hard one to keep in check.
it's lame and lame for me now haha. And soon, I imagine that lame will be wrong somehow too.
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Closest one to that username. But he hasn't been active since 2007.

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Argh I forgot it’s Monterey car week this week. I was suppose to go down there but I’m stuck in montreal. Has anyone on RS ever went to this Mecca of the automotive world ? Seems super cool but I wasn’t sure if being around 20,000 people in that small village with 37 degree weather would be all that fun.
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Argh I forgot it’s Monterey car week this week. I was suppose to go down there but I’m stuck in montreal. Has anyone on RS ever went to this Mecca of the automotive world ? Seems super cool but I wasn’t sure if being around 20,000 people in that small village with 37 degree weather would be all that fun.
I think dukes has been? If I remember correctly.
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Closest one to that username. But he hasn't been active since 2007.

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