Are people lazy, don’t know how to help or scared of liability.

[m1garand762]

How about helping people in need, hurt, just had an accident, stuck in the snow? When we were on a vacation we drove the Blue Ridge Parkway. There were two motorcycles in the road around a corner and one had wrecked 10 seconds before we got there. Not life threatening injuries but a badly injured shoulder. He wasn’t getting up. I’m the only one whose phone had a connection so I called 911 and we stayed until help got there. It took about 20 minutes for anyone to show up, it was pretty rural. It just seemed like a necessary thing just to make sure nobody came around the corner and ran him over. Several cars did stop and offer help and one person did get his bike up and down to a parking area.

A couple years ago I was cleaning my driveway to go to work after a really bad unexpected overnight snowstorm I was on the road without my 4 ways on and it was around 430 am not a car insight. I turned to backup and saw a cop standing behind me holding her badge. I’m glad I kept my mouth shut because I was going to yell at her if she chastised me for not having my hazards on on the tractor while on the road. It turns out it was the neighbor about a mile down the road and her cruiser was in the ditch. She asked me to pull her out which I did. I wasn’t expecting a commendation from her chief, or an official resolution from the mayor and city council of the city she worked for. It’s not a big deal but my wife thought it was really nice of all of them for how they thanked me for doing the right thing

 

[riptides]

I take the time to thank people for deeds and services. I also make a habit of informing their boss or whomever is or could be their superior.

 

[Fixastuff]

What is a social media score?

 

[GeneV]

Speaking of teachers….
Was talking to my wife the other night about her incoming class this year and behavior of kids in past years.

20 years ago when my wife started teaching, she would get a class of 20 kids and 1 or 2 would be misbehaved. She and her co-teachers now lament that a class of 20 kids today has 1 or 2 well behaved kids and 18 or 19 brats!
During conferences, she says she has noticed a lot of dysfunction in families in recent years. Kids forced to look at I-Pads with headphones from the age of 2, no socialization skills. Then the school gets that and they are a freakin mess. Parents “out to lunch” and more worried about the social media scores than raising good kids.

I see it all the time now, put a 3 y/o on a tablet so that they're distracted and don't bug the parents. Detached parenting. That, coupled with child programming being mostly fast-moving/switching images on TV, so that the kid develops a short attention span. Just not a good recipe for a respectful student ready for class.

 

[Jstpssng]

What is a social media score?

I was wondering the same thing. The only place I’ve heard of that is in news articles about China.

 

[Hay Dude]

I was wondering the same thing. The only place I’ve heard of that is in news articles about China.

Oh my, you need to get out more. Banks are putting scores on us. Big tech social media is increasing or decreasing “visibility” of people on social media according to their political views.
This is no different than assigning scores to people by how their beliefs align with the big tech oligarchs.
It’s happening in more & more places.

We are becoming more & more like China all the time.

 

[Jstpssng]

Oh my, you need to get out more. Banks are putting scores on us. Big tech social media is increasing or decreasing “visibility” of people on social media according to their political views.
This is no different than assigning scores to people by how their beliefs align with the big tech oligarchs.
It’s happening in more & more places.

We are becoming more & more like China all the time.

This is the closest thing I come to social media… aside from TBN I read the local news, check my email and pay my bills.
Besides, I am at a point in my life that I just don’t care what other people think.

 

[Comancheria]

Speaking of teachers….
Was talking to my wife the other night about her incoming class this year and behavior of kids in past years.

20 years ago when my wife started teaching, she would get a class of 20 kids and 1 or 2 would be misbehaved. She and her co-teachers now lament that a class of 20 kids today has 1 or 2 well behaved kids and 18 or 19 brats!
During conferences, she says she has noticed a lot of dysfunction in families in recent years. Kids forced to look at I-Pads with headphones from the age of 2, no socialization skills. Then the school gets that and they are a freakin mess. Parents “out to lunch” and more worried about the social media scores than raising good kids.

Same goes for college students.
My Wife teaches med students and it’s unbelievable the amount of entitled, lazy brats that think they don’t have to do the work and demand that they get preferential treatment.
They whine and complain to my wife’s boss who just laughs at the ridiculousness of the students attitudes.
In order to pass these classes they have to do the work just like everyone else to graduate.
Some of them obviously never heard the word no from anyone so they should get whatever they want when they throw a tantrum.

 

[Comancheria]

Oh my, you need to get out more. Banks are putting scores on us. Big tech social media is increasing or decreasing “visibility” of people on social media according to their political views.
This is no different than assigning scores to people by how their beliefs align with the big tech oligarchs.
It’s happening in more & more places.

We are becoming more & more like China all the time.

Best thing I ever did was get a new phone.
My YouTube account wont work anymore and I lost my password.
I could easily recover my account but anything that has google tendrils all over it I’ve decided to opt out of.
Ive been so much happier not getting involved in political discussions on YouTube.
Ive also given up on an honest politician ever.
Ive been of voting age for more than 30 years now and I can smell a rat politician, a slogan and BS miles away.
I watched only a little
Of the Republican debates the other night and the absolute ridiculousness and same old Bs games made me sick to my stomach.
They’re all freaking lying scum bags.
They always make grand promises to get elected then once in they turn into establishment tyrants and thumb their nose at us and change our grandchildren’s futures for the worse.
What is even more sickening are the morons in the crowd that cheer after they’re prepared little speeches and talking points.
Made me want to puke.
I vowed not to give a flying F bomb about politics and do all I can to prepare my family for as much as I possibly can without having to rely on anyone or anything especially these commie bastards in Washington that do nothing but pander to the elites.
In full Sarah Connor mode for the past 30 years.

 

[LD1]

This is the closest thing I come to social media… aside from TBN I read the local news, check my email and pay my bills.
Besides, I am at a point in my life that I just don’t care what other people think.

Funny you mention TBN as social media. Because you certainly DO have a score here ..lol