• @PriorityMotif
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    21 month ago

    If my sister and I got into a debate at the dinner table one of our parents would go get the dictionary to decide who was right. If you wanted to know something specific you would have to go to the library and actually do research. Now you can just get the tl;Dr from Wikipedia or whatever.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      Sure but those of us old enough to have competed with each other in knowing facts we ban phones until after the argument

      I get caught for bullshitting after winning an argument much more now than I did before Internet in your pocket