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[wanderingprostheyltite]

Where is this from ?

Don't know who the youtuber is but I'm guessing the game they're playing is Affected

I love this photo, pretty but the subtext isn't. Protesters in Kiev dealing with police.

Lots of great photos here: http://mashable.com/2014/12/17/best-photos-of-2014/

 

[injurai]

The LHC

It's truly a testimate to the positive aspects of humanity.

 

[cloud_sleep]

Kids bored at a museum?!

*GASP*

Surely only smartphones could have caused this!

Seriously, I can't help but roll my eyes at each and every one of these "Smartphones are taking over our liiiiiiiiives" pictures. Especially the idea that any of this is new or indicative of modern times. The complaints are all things we've heard before. "Oh, kids these days are all glued to their phones"

I disagree. I think smartphones have had a big impact on social interaction. Not necessarily saying it's for the worse, but I disagree that the affect of this technology - which keeps people constantly connected to people, knowledge and entertainment, wherever they are - can be handwaved away as easily as with polaroid cameras, newspapers or any of the examples you used. I think the mass adoption of the smartphone is a significant development and it absolutely is defining of the modern era.

 

[CountAntonius]

The LHC

Large Hardon Collider is truly awe inspiring.

 

[HarryKS]

It's truly a testimate to the positive aspects of humanity.

Testament.

 

[JzeroT1437]

THE NEW YORKER COSTS EIGHT FREAKING DOLLARS NOW? JESUS.

 

[Mimosa97]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9s5cOKe8c
I love this channel, this particual video is amazing.

Thank you sir

 

[NobleGundam]

Chlorine gas attack in Syria.

And napalm bombs on innocent ppl including kids.

 

[Bodacious]

I've seen this many times before and there's nothing wrong with pointing out the difference for the sake of raising awareness if nothing else, but since the two photos and their accompanying blurbs come from two difference sources, all this really shows is that someone at AP may be a little prejudiced. If the same writer had written both, i.e. one person alone chose to attach 'looting' to the black guy and 'finding' for the white couple, then you'd have something.

 

[TheMAK]

NV..wrong post...

 

[bomma_man]

my addition would be

As a symbol of the downfall of popular culture and the ascendancy of the man child?

 

[DiipuSurotu]

A circus monkey cowers in fear as its trainer approaches in China.

 

[watershed]

I've seen this many times before and there's nothing wrong with pointing out the difference for the sake of raising awareness if nothing else, but since the two photos and their accompanying blurbs come from two difference sources, all this really shows is that someone at AP may be a little prejudiced. If the same writer had written both, i.e. one person alone chose to attach 'looting' to the black guy and 'finding' for the white couple, then you'd have something.

What's wrong with pointing out media racial bias without ascribing it to one specific writer? This isn't a game of gotcha. It's a problem of representation.

 

[Speevy]

If your local grocery store is under water and you're swimming in it yourself, you had better steal some bread while there's still bread to steal.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

A circus monkey cowers in fear as its trainer approaches in China.

WTF Man.

 

[dejay]

that level of complexity (not only with the construction of the machine but also in the interpretation of experimental results) is just intimidating. I wish i was that smart.

I wish I was smart enough to realise just how smart I wasn't.

Abu Ghraib is the simple result of human psychology. Nothing really exemplary about it. Standford Prison Experiment has the exact same dynamics playing out with just students who volunteered for a study.

True, but that's what oversight is for. In many cases in Abu Ghraib, the actions were sanctioned, often from the very highest levels of government.

It basically represents the worst of us, at a time when "winning hearts and minds" was a stated objective. If the objective was "stirring resentment and helping radicalisation" then mission accomplished.

 

[Walpurgis]

Abu Ghraib is the simple result of human psychology. Nothing really exemplary about it. Standford Prison Experiment has the exact same dynamics playing out with just students who volunteered for a study.

The Rwandan genocide is the simple result of human psychology. Nothing really exemplary about it. The Holocaust has the exact same dynamics playing out with just a larger and more organised operation.

Spoiler

 

[Dommo]

Kids bored at a museum?!

*GASP*

Surely only smartphones could have caused this!

Seriously, I can't help but roll my eyes at each and every one of these "Smartphones are taking over our liiiiiiiiives" pictures. Especially the idea that any of this is new or indicative of modern times. The complaints are all things we've heard before. "Oh, kids these days are all glued to their phones"

"Everyone is so camera obsessed these days. They're just living life through a lens!"

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"All people do is just stare at X"

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"Nobody socializes anymore because they all have their noses in X in public"

[/QUOTE]

It's disingenuous to say that phone technology hasn't had a profound and dramatic effect on our current way of living. Sure, these things have existed through time in a number of different ways and mediums, and it's not even necessarily a bad thing to be able to step away from the immediacy of day-to-day life every now and then, but it's never been more pervasive, more abstracted, more all-consuming than it is today. This is not a binary thing where before smartphones we were all pure and liberated. It's a slow burn, and objectively, we are more connected to technology today than ever before.

Whether that's an overall good or bad thing is up for debate. I think smartphones are pretty great and offer huge societal value in wide range of ways, but I do often wonder what negative effects it has on living habits. For example, interacting with someone through technology used to be talking to them through a phone. You miss their body language but you're still having a real, human-to-human conversation with them. Obviously phone calls still exist, but a large chunk of that social interaction pie has been replaced with uploading photos, writing messages on social media, and waiting for 'friends' to like and comment. This doesn't seem like a particularly healthy form of social interaction to me. It's waaay more abstracted than it's ever been before.

Now, you could also argue smartphones make it easier to meet up and create events but to just say that it's always been this way, just in different forms, is reductive. Technology is rapidly changing the way we interact with each other.

 

[Bodacious]

What's wrong with pointing out media racial bias without ascribing it to one specific writer? This isn't a game of gotcha. It's a problem of representation.

I think I more or less said that, but to answer your question, the message being suggested by putting the pictures together is misleading because it's two different writers. The AP writer who said the black guy looted may have said the white couple looted too. Of course you can assume that's not the case if you like, but that shows a bias too.

 

[Kinokou]

Foto: Krister Sørbø

Rose march after the terror attract in Norway 2011.

 

[NEO0MJ]

Interesting thread.

Saddest thing about this isn't the revelation, it's that how little people cared about it.

what is the point of this? not just from ISIS stand point but regular people who destroy pyramids, grave robbers and that shit. youre destroying the homes and items that let us evolve into everything we are today, the fuck

I can sometimes understand destroying historical sites if they stand in the way of improving a country's situation, and even poor grave robbers who become desperate.
But ISIS is really something else.

 

[Lightning Count]

A circus monkey cowers in fear as its trainer approaches in China.

Reminds me of a scene from Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

 

[The Boat]

Kids bored at a museum?!

*GASP*

Surely only smartphones could have caused this!

Seriously, I can't help but roll my eyes at each and every one of these "Smartphones are taking over our liiiiiiiiives" pictures. Especially the idea that any of this is new or indicative of modern times. The complaints are all things we've heard before. "Oh, kids these days are all glued to their phones"


"Everyone is so camera obsessed these days. They're just living life through a

"All people do is just stare at X"


"Nobody socializes anymore because they all have their noses in X in public"

Except now people do all of these combined all the fucking time because you have all these things and more in your pocket for easy access whether you're at home, at a museum, at the movies, in a restaurant or in the middle of the street.

It's not even comparable, or rather, it is, but there's a huge gulf between people using those things you show and the frequency of people using their smartphones.

 

[dreamcastmaster]

Kids bored at a museum?!

*GASP*

Surely only smartphones could have caused this!

Seriously, I can't help but roll my eyes at each and every one of these "Smartphones are taking over our liiiiiiiiives" pictures. Especially the idea that any of this is new or indicative of modern times. The complaints are all things we've heard before. "Oh, kids these days are all glued to their phones"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/30URaqz.jpg[/img]

"Everyone is so camera obsessed these days. They're just living life through a lens!"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/GNbexOH.jpg[/img]

"All people do is just stare at X"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/vIHbVVT.jpg[/img]

"Nobody socializes anymore because they all have their noses in X in public"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/ye1r8WV.jpg[/img]

Great post.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Blue sunset in Mars, taken by Curiosity.

 

[Randam]

Great post.

qft.


older colleagues at work used to fuss about the younger onces only looking at their phones, while they were all reading there papers in silence.

 

[ClosingADoor]

qft.


older colleagues at work used to fuss about the younger onces only looking at their phones, while they were all reading there papers in silence.

I do find phones are more of a distraction for people at work. You put a paper away after lunch, but a lot of people check their phones constantly if a new messages comes and such.

I think it is different, since the phone is always connected, so people don't step away from it.

 

[PerezDeCorcho]

 

[Cereal KiIIer]

 

[thenexus6]

Already posted

 

[Auctopus]

Kids bored at a museum?!

*GASP*

Surely only smartphones could have caused this!

Seriously, I can't help but roll my eyes at each and every one of these "Smartphones are taking over our liiiiiiiiives" pictures. Especially the idea that any of this is new or indicative of modern times. The complaints are all things we've heard before. "Oh, kids these days are all glued to their phones"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/30URaqz.jpg[/img]

"Everyone is so camera obsessed these days. They're just living life through a lens!"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/GNbexOH.jpg[/img]

"All people do is just stare at X"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/vIHbVVT.jpg[/img]

"Nobody socializes anymore because they all have their noses in X in public"

[img]http://i.imgur.com/ye1r8WV.jpg[/img]

Great post.

A circus monkey cowers in fear as its trainer approaches in China.

Whilst this is a nasty image. I feel a lot of people in this thread are forgetting these are meant to be photos that 'DEFINE' our modern era.

 

[ShamePain]

 

[DietRob]

That and the seasons greetings one are two of the most powerful images of the past decade for me.

 

[Llyranor]