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wildadragon t1_j698sbf wrote

Hmmm needing to look something up before the internet

Leave house, go to library, check card catalog, find book, read or copy page.

After the internet

googles the question

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JimmyTorpedo t1_j69ympf wrote

But before you leave though you have to hitch the team of horses to the wagon, gather the ranch hands, ford through a river, camp out at Wilson's Creek, THEN get to town, to only realize you can't read because you spent your youth learning to ranch and farm and not getting an education because everything had to be done by hand!

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Mutant_Llama1 t1_j6afnlk wrote

Or just ask the one guy in town who can read to help you out.

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ZL0J t1_j6a3d3j wrote

Yep. And now you have all that time to do cognitive stuff rather than repetitive routine mindless tasks. So your brain is running in top gear 16/8 at best and 20/4 at worst which is incredibly taxing psychically. I've been teaching myself to ease off for 2 years now and still struggling. Shit is shit, I want to live in 2000s again

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swankpoppy t1_j6d81xk wrote

And from the phone in my pocket! Literally infinite information available, all in my pocket. Holy cow.

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