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Very timely and why I say meh.
I spent the weekend with a bunch of kids who are aspiring Martial Artists and another bunch who are into Christianity. Couple of Youth Groups with very diverse backgrounds. I found they had the same questions that I had back in the day, the same willingness to work, sweat and pray was very evident. No major difference whatsoever. They all had phones, but you don't walk onto a Kwoon floor with a phone, nor do you you disrespect a speaker at your Church by having a phone turned on. They all knew there is a time and a place for everything. These kids were pretty good.
I had the chance to speak with them in regards to technology, school, careers and obviously fighting. I was armed with the wisdom of an old fart who had survived the turmoil of the 60's, the free love and drugs of the 70's Me Generation. I had a lot of experience to pass on to these kids. We talked about life, relationships, home and health. failure, defeat and resiliency. Victory, modesty and pride. Normal topics with youth. We also talked tech.
Talk about a bunch of kids who showed resiliency (they couldn't spell it without a spellcheck mind you) because they have adapted to leaps in tech that I could only dream about. Man, the leaps in tech have them pondering three careers, perhaps four before they have a time to retire. If retirement is something these kids have to look forward to. There is a good chance that the careers they are looking at will be wiped out in the next twenty years or so. Who will be driving trucks? Running distribution centres? Guiding aircraft for landing and take off and for that matter, flying them? Where will science take us?
I have always been a futurist, and I am content with who I am leaving the future with, if we can get our crap together and leave them with something to work with.
Discuss among yourselves. Bonus points. What was the social and economic importance of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932/33.
 
I agree with the general sentiment for sure.
One note though, all the mice I ever worked with were idiots. Had to kill every single one of them.



Paywalled ? Bro EDIT- nevermind, reset my password, all good

What happened? I ask because I screwed up my search engine and need a 12 year old to help me out.
 
I agree with the general sentiment for sure.
One note though, all the mice I ever worked with were idiots. Had to kill every single one of them.
Don't kill your mice. Leave them around for Acetylcholine research.
 
Very timely and why I say meh.
I spent the weekend with a bunch of kids who are aspiring Martial Artists and another bunch who are into Christianity. Couple of Youth Groups with very diverse backgrounds. I found they had the same questions that I had back in the day, the same willingness to work, sweat and pray was very evident. No major difference whatsoever. They all had phones, but you don't walk onto a Kwoon floor with a phone, nor do you you disrespect a speaker at your Church by having a phone turned on. They all knew there is a time and a place for everything. These kids were pretty good.
I had the chance to speak with them in regards to technology, school, careers and obviously fighting. I was armed with the wisdom of an old fart who had survived the turmoil of the 60's, the free love and drugs of the 70's Me Generation. I had a lot of experience to pass on to these kids. We talked about life, relationships, home and health. failure, defeat and resiliency. Victory, modesty and pride. Normal topics with youth. We also talked tech.
Talk about a bunch of kids who showed resiliency (they couldn't spell it without a spellcheck mind you) because they have adapted to leaps in tech that I could only dream about. Man, the leaps in tech have them pondering three careers, perhaps four before they have a time to retire. If retirement is something these kids have to look forward to. There is a good chance that the careers they are looking at will be wiped out in the next twenty years or so. Who will be driving trucks? Running distribution centres? Guiding aircraft for landing and take off and for that matter flying them? Where will science take us?
I have always been a futurist, and I am content with who I am leaving the future with, if we can get our crap together and leave them with something to work with.
Discuss among yourselves. Bonus points. What was the social and economic importance of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932/33.
Holodomor was a made man famine genocide perpetrated by Stalin, as some believe, to eliminate Ukrainian independence. Millions of people died!
Never heard of such an extreme genocide especially through induced famine and thanks @Bagua for the history lesson.
Sorry to sidetrack thread but was intrigued by @Bagua statement
 
Holodomor was a made man famine genocide perpetrated by Stalin, as some believe, to eliminate Ukrainian independence. Millions of people died!
Never heard of such an extreme genocide especially through induced famine and thanks @Bagua for the history lesson.
Sorry to sidetrack thread but was intrigued by @Bagua statement

Not sidetracked or derailed in the least. It was a brutal time in history. Can we head to that point again, if we have technology that keeps us informed as to where and what is transpiring in real time? Will we be able to prevent a Rwanda?
 
What happened? I ask because I screwed up my search engine and need a 12 year old to help me out.

I dunno, some funky computer issues in the last few days, nothing major, just a password failure of some sort in this case I guess
 
Very timely and why I say meh.
I spent the weekend with a bunch of kids who are aspiring Martial Artists and another bunch who are into Christianity. Couple of Youth Groups with very diverse backgrounds. I found they had the same questions that I had back in the day, the same willingness to work, sweat and pray was very evident. No major difference whatsoever. They all had phones, but you don't walk onto a Kwoon floor with a phone, nor do you you disrespect a speaker at your Church by having a phone turned on. They all knew there is a time and a place for everything. These kids were pretty good.
I had the chance to speak with them in regards to technology, school, careers and obviously fighting. I was armed with the wisdom of an old fart who had survived the turmoil of the 60's, the free love and drugs of the 70's Me Generation. I had a lot of experience to pass on to these kids. We talked about life, relationships, home and health. failure, defeat and resiliency. Victory, modesty and pride. Normal topics with youth. We also talked tech.
Talk about a bunch of kids who showed resiliency (they couldn't spell it without a spellcheck mind you) because they have adapted to leaps in tech that I could only dream about. Man, the leaps in tech have them pondering three careers, perhaps four before they have a time to retire. If retirement is something these kids have to look forward to. There is a good chance that the careers they are looking at will be wiped out in the next twenty years or so. Who will be driving trucks? Running distribution centres? Guiding aircraft for landing and take off and for that matter, flying them? Where will science take us?
I have always been a futurist, and I am content with who I am leaving the future with, if we can get our crap together and leave them with something to work with.
Discuss among yourselves. Bonus points. What was the social and economic importance of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932/33.

Fair enough, but understand when your getting to speak with a group of kids who have already decided to dedicate themselves to martial arts, they have already come to you with a moderate level of self disipline. And a Christian youth group most likely has kids who comes from a home with structure, rules and expectations. I teach quite a few evangical free christian kids, and they simply are the easiest kids to teach. They have respect, rules and structure. I never have to speak to these kids.

No offense, your pool to gather an opinion of resposnisble tech use isn't reflective of the population of our youth I think.
 
Fair enough, but understand when your getting to speak with a group of kids who have already decided to dedicate themselves to martial arts, they have already come to you with a moderate level of self disipline. And a Christian youth group most likely has kids who comes from a home with structure, rules and expectations. I teach quite a few evangical free christian kids, and they simply are the easiest kids to teach. They have respect, rules and structure. I never have to speak to these kids.

No offense, your pool to gather an opinion of resposnisble tech use isn't reflective of the population of our youth I think.

You would be surprised to see the diverse range of kids who wind up in inner city clubs that train free of charge. The Church group was the same, as they were made up mainly of lower income kids as well. Perhaps there is an income variable at play?
 
You would be surprised to see the diverse range of kids who wind up in inner city clubs that train free of charge. The Church group was the same, as they were made up mainly of lower income kids as well. Perhaps there is an income variable at play?

Could be.. but I see it as any kid who has iniative to join those type of groups probably has a bit more self control, respect etc.. Lot's would also have parents who know better than to let their kids be on phones all day long. You can have these type of parents in all demographic's of our population. I've had dirt poor parents have great kids and of course the opposite. I've had very very wealthy kids with great parents and of course the opposite.
 
Lol, you know I have only had my cell phone with me lately in order to get the phone call for my surgery. Anyhow got that call and my phone is now dead on the counter.

My staff laugh at new staff when I am gone and they say, text Mike fir the answer. They know how to think for themselves. I never have my phone.

I was using it when I was on the shitter, but I’d rather read a equipment manual or a book.

My grandson wants the phone all the time. I tell him to look around and watch people. Be part of the world we are in and enjoy it. You miss out on too much staring at that phone.

My staff were horrible with their phones, pulling them out to respond to their friends. I ended that by saying the ones I see pull out there phone for personal reasons will be the ones with their hours cut. They have learned.

Plus until people get off their phones we do not serve them. We move in to customers willing to be polite and not be on their phones.
 
Lol, you know I have only had my cell phone with me lately in order to get the phone call for my surgery. Anyhow got that call and my phone is now dead on the counter.

My staff laugh at new staff when I am gone and they say, text Mike fir the answer. They know how to think for themselves. I never have my phone.

I was using it when I was on the shitter, but I’d rather read a equipment manual or a book.

My grandson wants the phone all the time. I tell him to look around and watch people. Be part of the world we are in and enjoy it. You miss out on too much staring at that phone.

My staff were horrible with their phones, pulling them out to respond to their friends. I ended that by saying the ones I see pull out there phone for personal reasons will be the ones with their hours cut. They have learned.

Plus until people get off their phones we do not serve them. We move in to customers willing to be polite and not be on their phones.


I can admit I have this inner urgency to check my phone when I'm in my house. I don't get it.. It's just a urgnecy to check things on it. I deleted instagram and some other apps. That helped.

It's funny because at work, its a watch to me and thats it. It does get used to text other staff during the day for important info that can't wait for someone to check their email.

If I'm not at work and not inside my house, I honestly never look at it, but its in my pocket or truck so that my wife can get a hold of me.

One of my good friends broke his iphone before Christmas. He refuses to get another cell phone. And they have no land line. Only way to get a hold of him is to call his wife's phone. I won't do that. I told him he needs a land line because its not right to tell people they need to call his wife to get her to pass her phone to him. And if she's not beside him, she has to tell you that she will pass the message to him and he will call you back. I think thats messed up, but he said he feels free.

I admit my biggest tech issue is this computer. I have a urgnecy to check this website, a outdoorsman forum, facebook and my work email. I work on checking them at a more appropriate amount all the time. I think its terrible that so many ppl check their emails every 5 mins that my employeer now just expects it. You're screwed if you wait until 9 am to check your email and you check it the last time for the day at 4. They expect it to be checked at home.



Sincerly the best year of my life was when I was single and moved into a little house on a dead end of the road in the country. The location could not get a cell signal, I could get texts if I left my phone in the kitchen. I couldn't get satelite TV or internet either. The location at the time made it impossible unless I bought a tower to go on the house. Anyways- June to June with zero technology. I absolutely loved it. I turned the TV on to watch a rented movie maybe once a month. I loved it. I listened to music all the time, I got so much done around the house, I felt so connected to my environment and I went to bed around 9 pm every night and fell right to sleep. Looking back, that was honestly the healthiest and most relaxed year of my life. Then I met my wife and we moved in together. She insisted on getting the internet. I didn't want it, but I agreed. She had a big screen TV. I didn't want it. But she already had it... Then along came net flix etc... Now I feel the most connected to tech ever.
 
I can admit I have this inner urgency to check my phone when I'm in my house. I don't get it.. It's just a urgnecy to check things on it. I deleted instagram and some other apps. That helped.

It's funny because at work, its a watch to me and thats it. It does get used to text other staff during the day for important info that can't wait for someone to check their email.

If I'm not at work and not inside my house, I honestly never look at it, but its in my pocket or truck so that my wife can get a hold of me.

One of my good friends broke his iphone before Christmas. He refuses to get another cell phone. And they have no land line. Only way to get a hold of him is to call his wife's phone. I won't do that. I told him he needs a land line because its not right to tell people they need to call his wife to get her to pass her phone to him. And if she's not beside him, she has to tell you that she will pass the message to him and he will call you back. I think thats messed up, but he said he feels free.

I admit my biggest tech issue is this computer. I have a urgnecy to check this website, a outdoorsman forum, facebook and my work email. I work on checking them at a more appropriate amount all the time. I think its terrible that so many ppl check their emails every 5 mins that my employeer now just expects it. You're screwed if you wait until 9 am to check your email and you check it the last time for the day at 4. They expect it to be checked at home.



Sincerly the best year of my life was when I was single and moved into a little house on a dead end of the road in the country. The location could not get a cell signal, I could get texts if I left my phone in the kitchen. I couldn't get satelite TV or internet either. The location at the time made it impossible unless I bought a tower to go on the house. Anyways- June to June with zero technology. I absolutely loved it. I turned the TV on to watch a rented movie maybe once a month. I loved it. I listened to music all the time, I got so much done around the house, I felt so connected to my environment and I went to bed around 9 pm every night and fell right to sleep. Looking back, that was honestly the healthiest and most relaxed year of my life. Then I met my wife and we moved in together. She insisted on getting the internet. I didn't want it, but I agreed. She had a big screen TV. I didn't want it. But she already had it... Then along came net flix etc... Now I feel the most connected to tech ever.

We have a land line. I didn't get a phone until I took my wifes old one 2 years ago. Damn I leave it everywhere, work, my car, at home. I'm always misplacing it.

\I have friends that always have their phones, they send me messages on facebook telling me to check my messages, lol. I tell them to call me. They never do. Just send messages then get upset because I didn't answer, lol.

My computer is so old and slow at home, that its only good for my wife to do payroll. I use my ipad. I only upgraded my internet so my wife could stream movies while working out and that my porn wouldn't be choppy, lol.

I hardly watch tv, and in the summer I am pretty much always outside. Damn I'll go lay down on a lawnchair and watch the clouds and fall asleep. On days where the mosquitos are not bad, I'll actually sleep outside on this huge lawn chair I have, and listen to the noises. I woke one night to raccoons (the ones I fed) hanging around checking me out, lol.

I hardly take pictures either. I love to live in the moment, could be why I have so many stories because I am part of life, not my phone.
 
We have a land line. I didn't get a phone until I took my wifes old one 2 years ago. Damn I leave it everywhere, work, my car, at home. I'm always misplacing it.

\I have friends that always have their phones, they send me messages on facebook telling me to check my messages, lol. I tell them to call me. They never do. Just send messages then get upset because I didn't answer, lol.

My computer is so old and slow at home, that its only good for my wife to do payroll. I use my ipad. I only upgraded my internet so my wife could stream movies while working out and that my porn wouldn't be choppy, lol.

I hardly watch tv, and in the summer I am pretty much always outside. Damn I'll go lay down on a lawnchair and watch the clouds and fall asleep. On days where the mosquitos are not bad, I'll actually sleep outside on this huge lawn chair I have, and listen to the noises. I woke one night to raccoons (the ones I fed) hanging around checking me out, lol.

I hardly take pictures either. I love to live in the moment, could be why I have so many stories because I am part of life, not my phone.


I'm jealous. Honestly am..

Here is one of best 30$ I ever spent https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01HXR38HE/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Its not like a traditional hammock in how its unstable. So damn comfortable. I have it in my front yard. I love summer days of laying in my hammock watching my kids play on their trampoline.

If you got 2 trees, get this hammock. If not, get a couple 4x4;s and make supports. You won't regret it.


Here is what I use to camp now. I haven't slept in a tent in years (I still hunt in the fall out of my canvas wall tent though)


I just picked a random youtube video, but its a hennesy expiditio asym hammock tent. Ppl laugh at me when I set it up, then when they stop laughing and try laying in it, they stop laughing. It really is good for sore backs. If I go camping for 3 nights, it straightens my back right out and feels great.
 
I cut down every tree in my yard. I have a huge pool, enormous 5 tiered deck, plus a couple of little decks in the corners.
I really don’t have much grass to mow in the back yard.
When I did all this I didn’t have a child living with me, lol.
We have to play in the front yard.
 
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