these rectangles help to notify citizens about which brand of domestic detergent to buy, what direction to drive their vehicles in, and how many more seconds a food item must remain inside its revolving radiation chamber before it can be hurriedly consumed.
I can’t even tell you how much time I’ve spent thinking about that term: black mirror. I actually think that future historians will refer to this era as the age of the black mirror.
The rectangles even help Americans to successfully emote, often by using a combination of visual and aural signals to indicate when laughter or tears should be produced.
Bahhhahaha! Omg! Loved this. Really wasn't expecting so many actuaLOLs. Seriously hilarious.
And, yes, also quite dark because it's so true. I've seen kids go nuts when parents take screens away, which was what I was thinking about when I read this:
"Some even become irritated and angry when these rectangles are not around."
We fostered over 35 kids and adopted 6 of them over an almost 10 year period. The way these kids would act if their glowing rectangles weren't present and in a useable state still scares me! The youngest just turned 21, and she's with the oldest (they're riding out the lockdown with us), and they are simultaneously trying to watch 3 or more rectangles at the moment. they are failing, but are getting pretty close.
We fostered over 35 kids and adopted 6 of them over an almost 10 year period.
Beyond incredible! This makes me feel like my stresses are profoundly asinine.
The way these kids would act if their glowing rectangles weren't present and in a useable state still scares me!
Haha. Sounds frightening!
they are simultaneously trying to watch 3 or more rectangles at the moment. they are failing, but are getting pretty close.
Wow! What a scene! Are the different rectangles emitting different sounds? This really stretches the limits of my imagination.
I'm by myself in almost absolute silence and I just lit a few candles and a stick of incense. The vibes at my place and vibes at your place sound quite different. Then again, we're both chillin on Readup right now, lol.
Yes, fostering/adopting/kids, in general, can be very stressful! We had enough of it after 10 years!
They're watching a movie on Netflix while Heather is chatting with friends on her laptop, and Ian is playing a flight simulator. It drives me to distraction just walking through the area. My wife and I are in my workshop, as far from the family room as you can get in our house, and I'm on Readup, Quora, and Reddit (not all at once, that's for the kids, I'm switching between them!), while planning some design changes to one of my projects in my head. Karla is reading stuff on a crafting site, things she can do with her Cricut CAD style vinyl/paper cutter thingy.
Frighteningly true! Love the name, Bill, the age of The Black Mirror.
They really are black mirrors, aren’t they? :)
I can’t even tell you how much time I’ve spent thinking about that term: black mirror. I actually think that future historians will refer to this era as the age of the black mirror.
A necessity for connection, our general addiction.
Some humor via a link from sjwoo's comment...
Bahhhahaha! Omg! Loved this. Really wasn't expecting so many actuaLOLs. Seriously hilarious.
And, yes, also quite dark because it's so true. I've seen kids go nuts when parents take screens away, which was what I was thinking about when I read this:
We fostered over 35 kids and adopted 6 of them over an almost 10 year period. The way these kids would act if their glowing rectangles weren't present and in a useable state still scares me! The youngest just turned 21, and she's with the oldest (they're riding out the lockdown with us), and they are simultaneously trying to watch 3 or more rectangles at the moment. they are failing, but are getting pretty close.
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Beyond incredible! This makes me feel like my stresses are profoundly asinine.
Haha. Sounds frightening!
Wow! What a scene! Are the different rectangles emitting different sounds? This really stretches the limits of my imagination.
I'm by myself in almost absolute silence and I just lit a few candles and a stick of incense. The vibes at my place and vibes at your place sound quite different. Then again, we're both chillin on Readup right now, lol.
Yes, fostering/adopting/kids, in general, can be very stressful! We had enough of it after 10 years!
They're watching a movie on Netflix while Heather is chatting with friends on her laptop, and Ian is playing a flight simulator. It drives me to distraction just walking through the area. My wife and I are in my workshop, as far from the family room as you can get in our house, and I'm on Readup, Quora, and Reddit (not all at once, that's for the kids, I'm switching between them!), while planning some design changes to one of my projects in my head. Karla is reading stuff on a crafting site, things she can do with her Cricut CAD style vinyl/paper cutter thingy.
I can't get over how much of a truth bomb it is to just replace the word "screen" with "rectangle."
I think that this one will stick with me for a while.