Krauerking

Right but also people rarely expect constant 100% eye contact. The occasional glance to show connection is actually more than enough for basically everyone and can be learned to done pretty easily. Its not needed but even the simple glance of eye contact makes people feel way more seen and heard.
Then you can just talk past each other the rest of the time as is standard.

Its never been easier to be lazy and unplanning about things and use other peoples time to try and cure your own boredom.

Yeah I guess we mocked those Bluetooth earpieces too much because now I wish everyone had one cause I'm so tired of people holding their phone 4 feet from their face at max volume yelling their conversation.

Some do some don't. I love to play the mash buttons and hope for a real person game but more often lately it just ignores you or says that isn't an input and keeps you locked in the automated, cause their just isn't a person on the other side being paid to actually pick up a phone.

Yeah I can do this. And am not even 30 yet.

Nope.
It would probably help if phone calls still really existed as a method of getting stuff done but the amount of places not bothering / having automated / foreign staff for their call centers makes them basically pointless and a completely different skill set compared to old school charisma and phone etiquette.

Patience and stubbornness to deal with the bullshit and still keep the effort applied will win.

Not some skill that feels nostalgic and forgotten like phone calls or cursive will save you from the onslaught of time.

The oil refinery row used to really have a smell.

But Delaware sucks so much.

Well I I imagine the rest of us think it's pretty self explanatory.

What don't you get about tattooing the name of a Brand and politician and an arbitrary year on your face, while playing iSpy with your social media posts?

Wait.... No... I said it out loud.. Nah, include me in confused.

half the time of the monkeys

So are we saying the Lemurs are smarter or dumber for bring back the humans in that amount of time?

Hmm... Is that true? It's not like smoking bans are actually all encompassing its still mostly local precident and business decisions.
I am not sure I have seen someone smoke weed where they couldn't smoke a cigarette, or where banned a cigarette smoker might illegally light up anyways, other than vapes which are still also in high contention and not exactly banned.

I think you just have a stigma and an axe to grind that specifically singles them out because of a internal problem you have.

Anyways, good luck with that.

Its so fricking hard to find the trustworthy brands.

I'm honestly just so willing to not have any brand loyalty and to suffer with making a bad pick that I have to return or fix myself, I constantly having to re-find what is considered actually good quality.

The answer is a lot of name brand in the higher price range but not so high that it's just for padding a contractor's quote and percent take home is still good quality. And you can never go for the same model twice if the company is doing constant refreshes cause those are with cheaper components every time. (Allowance for first refresh fixing a flaw)

Yeah but name brands mean you buy it once and it doesn't fail as often, is the argument for that I get from those of that generation.

And I mean I get it. Buy a cheap pair of shoes or a good pair and you will realize you will go through 3 of the cheap pairs at half price compared to buying 1 good pair.

Though less so with each passing year since name brands are designed to fail now too.

Wasn't in 2015 when I hit on a girl for helping me navigate the subway system.