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Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t want a car. I don’t have one currently. In 1829 Stephenson showed trains were the future and that remains the same today.

I’m not convinced planes and computers have been good for the world. Though I have enjoyed them both tremendously.

But I’m ready to be an old man holding on to old tech. Fuck man. You ever quit your job and travelled the world? Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach, with people you met that day is so much better than the Internet. The shame of it is that most people haven’t.

We gave up community and happiness for isolation and sadness.

Also I’m old enough to have seen personal computers change the world. A lot has been lost in the last 20 decades.

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GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach

Yep, done that. And I agree it's great. I need a plane to visit the beach though.

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Fudoshin@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m not convinced planes and computers have been good for the world. Though I have enjoyed them both tremendously.

Sounds like something I’ve seen in the Unabombers Manifesto.

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- Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have been meaning to read that.
  
  Technology and happiness aren’t correlated though. That’s nothing new.
  
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AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Where would you go if you could do that kind of thing again?

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- Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You mean travelling?
  
  I’ve done that sort of thing in south America and south east Asia but it is getting rarer, a lot rarer. Mobile internet in Burma (before the recent war) for example seemed better than the mobile Internet in the UK. That country only opened to tourism in 1992 is a war zone, holds the record for longest running civil war and at least initially (way before i was there) you had to buy a data pack directly on the black market from the military. But while I was there it was pretty safe and I didn’t feel in danger, but it just goes to show how much the world has moved on.
  
  Generally the poorer the country and the more remote the better chance you got. If you go to Southern Thailand then everyone will just be drinking on the beach or doing things like tours. If you go to a beach resort in Vietnam or Cambodia where there are no shops/bars on the beach. You more likely to have something in the hostel to keep you busy. Basically if people are bored and there is nothing else to do they will talk and play games, if there is something else to do they will do that. Multiday boat trips can be good actually because you are stuck together, that’s the last time I felt that community.
  
  South east Asia and South America I would still recommend travelling though. I have heard very good things about the Stans (probably exculding afganistan and pakistan). Met a few people who travelled from Europe to Asia and they said nothing but good things, that may be an option I don’t know.
  
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