Cory Doctorow explained in one of his articles that the Amish don’t avoid technology indiscriminately, they weigh the harm against the use. His example was that it’s bad when electronic communication replaces face-to-face contact, but it’s no good either if you can’t contact a vet when your cow falls ill.
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JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be honest, I think the Amish might be on to something. If we could create a sect that stopped at '90s tech, I’d be tempted to convert.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was like “wow what a reasoned take, I like cory doctorow for basically everything he says”. Then I read your username and almost did a spit take. Lol
modus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Amish communities can have phones if they vote for it amongst themselves. The one I saw was a community landline. They had just one in a little shed along the driveway.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, my understanding is that typically a shopkeeper or someone like that might have an old-style cell dumbphone, without the Facebooks and stuff.
modus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn. I wish I were Amish.
Spooge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One week of no porn and you’d come crawling back.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Back in the ‘90’s if you go for a walk in a wooded area in the park you could find pornographic magazines with half the pages glued together.
Spooge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I experienced that one multiple occasions.
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Next to the cn rail tracks… I learned so much from those pages.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the aughts, my first introduction to bondage was an unlabeled dvd I found on the side of the road.
Wasn’t even the first time I’d found porn that way.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You… you think that wasn’t around back then?
In the 90s you just waited longer for one pic.
Not to mention magazines found in the forrest.
Spooge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Scribble vision, baby.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
VHS Tapes :)
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
You don’t think people would instead, you know, start hooking up instead?
Rumo161@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I think you misunderstand the point of porn entirely.
Spooge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not the people that use Lemmy, I can tell you that much.
DrWorm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mennonites wild be the closest but that entirely depends on the community.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The only phone you get is a landline, a plastic Garfield whose eye open when you pick up the handset. So it is written, so shall it be.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It could be a mobile. But it only makes calls and it costs 10 cents a minute to the caller.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
…which is fine, until the ninjers start calling in death threats on your Garfield phone.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
The original StarTac was 90s, no?