As always I'm far behind on this thread so I'm answering a lot in a single post:
which is why I am glad that my parents actually discipline me and don't just let everything slide. And I have been taught all my life to respect others, and whenever I disrespect someone, my dad gets upset.
Sounds like good education to me.
I have confidence in individuals. It's simple statistics. The more people you add to a sample population, the lower the
average becomes. And there are a LOT in your demographic.
So true...
Socrates did not live on the verge of a technological singularity. It doesn't really matter what the next generation does when they're going to end up being at least half computer.
Granted, yet I do think it matters. What part of us do we let become artifical, what do we teach these computers, etc. Who know, maybe machines could become better at life than we are...
Agreed. Hopefully, I don't fall into the Millennial norms myself even though I'm classified as one.
You are what you choose to be in a way. You can't change everything about you, your upbringing, etc. but your choices still make a lot of who you are.
I don't think any one here has to worry about falling into the norms of their respective generations. We are all Gen WTF and in this together if you ask me.
Love this! Point!
Thanks DS. Someone has faith in me
I think many of us have faith in you not falling into the Millenial norm
I'm not talking about simple knowledge storage. I'm talking about every process. Not just knowing song lyrics, but knowing the individual notes and what instrument is making them, and how loudly they are being played, and how best to imitate those sounds. Knowing how much force is necessary to take a step without falling, but also jumping off the ground. NTM, think of how many faces you can identify on sight, and whether or not you know them....or even like them. How to coordinate your fingers to tie a simple bow in your shoe laces. You add all those little things up, and they would quickly stress a computer's processor. And we can do all that I listed by the age of 5.
I often take a moment to be conscious of how much things my body and mind do, even some of them at the same time. I find it a very uplifting thought to realize the impressive things you do without being fully aware of it.
I'm fine. About a 6-8 hour drive from Anchorage.
Did feel it though. Shook for about 20 seconds or more. At first I thought I had just gotten super dizzy all of a sudden, but then we noticed the chandelier swinging. Wasn't on because I had to leave for school.
Glad to see that you weren't badly affected by it and are fine.
HA! You live on very stable ground. In California we had a 3.9 and a 4.0 since Tuesday. Business as usual. We have over 10,000 earthquakes a year.
California is a rather unstable environment. In Switzerland I actually really felt an earthquake only once in my life. I was a work and their was one in the mountains. I only really noticed because it lasted a while and I was standing still and watching as someone was showing me how to do something.
I just checked. I guess California is second to Alaska when it comes to earthquakes per year. And now I know something new.
Size should be taken into account as well. I looked at Wikipedia data. Alaska: 663,268 sq mi / California: 163,696 sq mi. Alaska is 4 times bigger than California. Than again, both are located of the Ring of Fire so it's no surprise they are seismically active. Most of Europe doesn't have that much difficulties with earthquakes.
