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Lots of people of my gen were utterly clueless about computers growing up-- it was arcane nerd shit.

You didn't have to know how to use a computer until much later in life in a number of careers.

Hell, my university still had rentable typewriters in the library, which still had a physical card catalog (alongside the new computerized one), and we still wrote tests by hand (essay or otherwise). Laptops weren't a thing. And not everyone had a PC/Mac. The Internet was something most students were oblivious to. The web was only just in its infancy and only the nerds knew about it as a curious novelty. Hell, there wasn't even DNS back then. Everyone downloaded a "hosts" file.

Even so, I'm still struggling to imagine how a person still doesn't know the difference between a search engine and a browser, though.

Then again, I suppose some people are just really awful at analytical thinking -- understanding how to decompose complex things. Understanding how the parts and pieces work. The people who were really bad at that kind of thing probably would have steered clear of computers as much as possible.

So, ok, maybe if a person avoids computers in undergrad and law school in the 90s then becomes a lawyer, they can just actively avoid computers in their job. That's one career where maybe that's possible because, by the time computers become truly ubiquitous, your assistants that can do the computer stuff for you.

Wait till they start murdering innoc-- no wait they already do that.

Fine print: use of non-Apple cleaning tools voids warranty.

I think it is a subscription based model.

Centrist my hairy ass. If it walks and talks like an obstructionist republican ballsack...

Also our brains are banned, too, since we use them to plan and take actions to infringe on IP.

They've done it before and by God they'll do it again if we let them have their way.

If he learned anything from anything he wouldn't be a right wing extremist.

What sort of issues did NM run into?

(And may I say, I love visiting and also am always surprised and amazed at how progressive and cool NM seems to be; I grew up in AZ... now in CO)

Stupid woman says stupid stuff, news at 11

GenX refuses to be lumped in with them. That's totally bogus dude.

There are so many other reasons though...

This exact scenario is in our annual training. Also I wouldn't be able to in the first place because we block those kinds of sites. Even if we didn't they would likely detect it and come a-knocking lol.

🤦🏻 yeah Iraq. Autocorrect probably. Daddy Bush probably also wanted to avoid a quagmire. Idk.

I agree we were justified invading Afghanistan and felt so at the time but it's just not a great place to try and "conquer". You might be right about the distraction of Iraq. However, Afghanistan strikes me as a country with the kind of deeply entrenched culture and politics so different from anything we are familiar with that I don't know if we could ever actively transform it in meaningful ways.

Wow love that bee pic! I find it really hard getting the focus perfect in that kind of shot. How do you like the Canon? I have a Rebel EOS T1 we got when my daughter was born that still works great.

Damn that was way too much emotion for a commercial. Somebody pass the tissues.

I got a set of AKG K240s which aren't even close to the best but of the options available at the guitar center (various Sennheiser, Grado, Audio Technica, etc) the clarity really impressed me. Love those things.

We barely got to the point of impeaching Nixon for his bullshit and Reagan got off scott free for Iran-Contra. So it shouldn't be too surprising that Bush didn't get keelhauled for his bullshit invasions especially since most of the morons in Washington were totally on board with it.

Some of us could see it coming from a mile away with Afghanistan. (Just had to look back to how it went for the USSR and like every other country that tried before us (see "Graveyard of Empires").

Iraq* looked an awful lot like bullshit driven by greed, oil, and "finishing what daddy started" at the time. Idk about the last one now but the first two? Definitely. But fucking Congress went along with all of it. Probably lobbied by billionaires.

So no way was he going to pay for his crimes.

People at the top in this country rarely do.

Um... no.

You totally can!! Got to get out there and try taking lots of pics. Take a hundred pics and you might get a handful of decent ones (totally normal).

Of course (and you may know already) it helps to have some ideas about color, composition, texture contrast and such to help you decide how to take the best picture for a given situation. There are lots of ways to take a meh pic of a bee on a flower but also many ways to take kickass pics of the same.

With this pic as an example of what works, the composition, the depth of field, the lighting, the contrasting colors, the mix of textures all work really well together here.

Sorry if I'm telling you what you already know but hopefully it helps someone idk.

I love photography. I should really get back to it :)