<![CDATA[every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live.]]>every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/e6323e1c-0478-4113-999e-8fb08f8af401/every-generation-thinks-they-re-the-smartest-group-of-people-to-ever-live.RSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 12:18:26 GMTFri, 03 Apr 2026 21:33:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:30:26 GMT]]>@Daojoan

They go to jobs of responsibility over the lives of others to earn money to subscribe to those apps to remind them they are also human and used to be capable.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.plus/users/GGMcBG/statuses/116344791146917748https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.plus/users/GGMcBG/statuses/116344791146917748Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:30:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:16:21 GMT]]>@SeanPLynch @HakeemG @Daojoan Of course!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116344735744368255https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116344735744368255Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:16:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:04:02 GMT]]>@Daojoan Prior generations were just muddling their way through, willy nilly. We're so much more advanced!! /s

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/earthtoneone/statuses/116344687319695798https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/earthtoneone/statuses/116344687319695798Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:04:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:17:22 GMT]]>@Daojoan I think you had me at ”inventing apps”

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/hypostase/statuses/116344503800311681https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/hypostase/statuses/116344503800311681Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:17:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:17:00 GMT]]>@Tijn @Daojoan even with better nutrition and fewer infections? (Well, fewer parasitic infections. More viral infections.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lgbtqia.space/users/MxVerda/statuses/116344502364509158https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lgbtqia.space/users/MxVerda/statuses/116344502364509158Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:17:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:35:04 GMT]]>@marleysmum @clusterfcku @Daojoan Yup. Every reg written in blood.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/faraiwe/statuses/116344337466764432https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/faraiwe/statuses/116344337466764432Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:35:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:20:19 GMT]]>@Daojoan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116326525133465901/statuses/116344279516710133https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116326525133465901/statuses/116344279516710133Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:20:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:07:53 GMT]]>@clusterfcku @faraiwe @Daojoan

What’s scarier is that those labels needonly be there ‘cos someone DID drink the fluid!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.au/ap/users/115805086713252898/statuses/116344230592544470https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.au/ap/users/115805086713252898/statuses/116344230592544470Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:07:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:05:53 GMT]]>@faraiwe @Daojoan @faraiwe @Daojoan

What’s scarier is that those labels need only be there ‘cos someone DID drink the fluid.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.au/ap/users/115805086713252898/statuses/116344222771501653https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.au/ap/users/115805086713252898/statuses/116344222771501653Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:05:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:57:25 GMT]]>@clusterfcku @Daojoan yeah, don't that give you hope....

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/faraiwe/statuses/116344189463359160https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/faraiwe/statuses/116344189463359160Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:57:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:48:36 GMT]]>@faraiwe @Daojoan There also exists washrooms with placards above the urinals warning patrons not to drink the water in it. (This is not a joke.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clusterfcku/statuses/116344154783592767https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clusterfcku/statuses/116344154783592767Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:48:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:21:42 GMT]]>@Daojoan dont people realize our phones have alarms for this /j

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunbeam.city/users/squeakypancakes/statuses/116344049039548421https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunbeam.city/users/squeakypancakes/statuses/116344049039548421Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:21:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:10:56 GMT]]>@archivescribe @HakeemG @Daojoan

We did write on stone with other stones ...

Slate chalkboards with chalk.

Does that count?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/SeanPLynch/statuses/116344006694766162https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/SeanPLynch/statuses/116344006694766162Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:10:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:30:53 GMT]]>@tasharoni @Daojoan the whole "drink more water" meme has partly become a big thing because something like 40% of the US population is prediabetic. Dehydration is one of the symptoms

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/fraggle/statuses/116343849221810301https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/fraggle/statuses/116343849221810301Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:30:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:09:03 GMT]]>@archivescribe @Daojoan I think the Internet has had two effects: we are more knowledgeable but also *less* knowledgeable. The ability to just “look things up” means we don’t have to learn or remember things.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rasterweb/statuses/116343763331274907https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rasterweb/statuses/116343763331274907Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:09:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:49:10 GMT]]>@HakeemG @Daojoan OMG I can still smell and taste that rubber water. 🙂

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/nomdeb/statuses/116343685158470370https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/nomdeb/statuses/116343685158470370Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:49:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:30:46 GMT]]>@Daojoan Confession, I like the app that reminds me to drink water. I had no idea I was not taking in enough fluids.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/tasharoni/statuses/116343612798900088https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/tasharoni/statuses/116343612798900088Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:30:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:18:01 GMT]]>@rasterweb @Daojoan Every day, as I age and live in this country, under my dystopian government, I feel like I’m living in that movie Idiocracy—except this version no comedy.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116343326715257471https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116343326715257471Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:18:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:14:54 GMT]]>@HakeemG @Daojoan Back in the 60s and 70s, we rode to school in the backs of dinosaurs and wrote on stone with chisel in class…and we liked it!

I’m just kidding, but yeah, I admit, older folk have a bad of habit of being overly nostalgic sometimes.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116343314491873139https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116343314491873139Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:14:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:39:33 GMT]]>@Daojoan

And a new generation of apps which may decide to kill us.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/James/statuses/116343175482083763https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/James/statuses/116343175482083763Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:39:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:32:17 GMT]]>@Daojoan apps to remind us to use other apps less

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://functional.cafe/users/prozacchiwawa/statuses/116343146927957240https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://functional.cafe/users/prozacchiwawa/statuses/116343146927957240Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:32:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:30:56 GMT]]>@Daojoan

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/OliverNoble/statuses/116343141599614309https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/OliverNoble/statuses/116343141599614309Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:30:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:22:23 GMT]]>@Daojoan every subsequent generation is probably dumber than the previous...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rasterweb/statuses/116343107993898464https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rasterweb/statuses/116343107993898464Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:22:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:53:26 GMT]]>@Daojoan It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the hunter-gatherers from before the Neolithic revolution were way smarter than the average person nowadays tbh.

Afaik there's some evidence that brain sizes have shrunk since people started settling down in cities etc.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dosgame.club/users/Tijn/statuses/116342994172558291https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dosgame.club/users/Tijn/statuses/116342994172558291Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:53:26 GMT