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 1 month 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 1 month ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Damn. I wish I were Amish.
Spooge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One week of no porn and you’d come crawling back.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
I experienced that one multiple occasions.
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Next to the cn rail tracks… I learned so much from those pages.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Scribble vision, baby.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
VHS Tapes :)
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 1 month ago
You don’t think people would instead, you know, start hooking up instead?
Rumo161@feddit.org 1 month ago
I think you misunderstand the point of porn entirely.
Spooge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not the people that use Lemmy, I can tell you that much.
DrWorm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mennonites wild be the closest but that entirely depends on the community.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 1 month ago
It could be a mobile. But it only makes calls and it costs 10 cents a minute to the caller.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
…which is fine, until the ninjers start calling in death threats on your Garfield phone.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 1 month ago
The original StarTac was 90s, no?