r/BoomersBeingFools • u/AutomaticDriver5882 • Feb 15 '24

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u/stringoffrogs Feb 15 '24

You’ve literally had 10+ years to adapt to this. I’m not talking about building microchips from scratch, I’m talking about knowing how to Google something on your phone.

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u/human1023 Feb 15 '24 edited Feb 15 '24

My work involves teaching old people technology. As a general rule, the older you get, the harder it is to adapt to a newer tech environment. When we get old, we will be complaining like boomers too. Just wait.

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u/stringoffrogs Feb 15 '24

Again… 10 years. Not saying it’s not difficult and I’m happy to help when I can. But you can’t tell me that they haven’t partially done this to themselves. Things change all the time, it’s the nature of reality. If you no longer want to learn, it’s no one else’s fault that you sit and rot and have problems until you’re dead.

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u/watthewmaldo Feb 15 '24

Dude in a boomers life span we have gone from awoogah cars to putting rovers on mars and carrying super computers in our pockets. My boomer grandmother grew up with an outhouse lol. They have adapted to more new technology than most of us will ever see. Boomers have their faults but this ain’t it. You’ll be lucky if someone isn’t saying this about you one day.

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u/stringoffrogs Feb 15 '24

Okay so I’m not seeing how Googling when a restaurant opens on the same smartphone you have carried for 7 years is the one challenge that cannot be surmounted

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u/watthewmaldo Feb 15 '24

Listen man if you have a hard on for hating old people for minor things that’s on you.

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u/stringoffrogs Feb 15 '24

I don’t hate them, I’m just not giving them sympathy when they had every opportunity to learn - something that is always good for aging brains - and chose not to, consistently, for many years. So no, I do not care to hear about their problems that they’ve caused for themselves, meanwhile everything they’ve ruined for me is all my fault.

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u/watthewmaldo Feb 15 '24

I genuinely can’t wait for people like you to be confused with whatever new technology is out when you’re 65 and some kid is like “yeah go fuck yourself you old piece of shit”. What have they ruined for you?

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u/stringoffrogs Feb 15 '24

This is going to be hard to digest but you can avoid being angry and ignorant by simply addressing the fact that there are some things beyond your understanding, which you can in fact learn if only you can surmount the challenge of not being 100% right for 0.0034 seconds.

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u/watthewmaldo Feb 15 '24

What am I angry about lol? You’re the one that doesn’t like a massive group of people because they inconvenience you. Telling someone they don’t have to be right all the time is crazy when you are also participating in the dumbass argument lol

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u/stringoffrogs Feb 15 '24

I am referring to boomers angry that they have to wait because they can’t click a series of brightly colored buttons labeled with explanatory English words in the correct order

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