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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:18:15 -0000 (UTC)
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:18:36 +0100, D wrote:
>>
>>> Children today are over protected, and this is destroying an entire 
>>> generation.  There are always exceptions, those are what give me 
>>> hope, but the vast majority are quite sad.
>>
>> I feel sorry when I see them being loaded into the backseat of a car 
>> in their escape pods.  My preferred location was standing on the 
>> passenger side floor with my hands on the solid steel dash of the 
>> '51 Chevy so I could see where we were going.  The gray paint of the 
>> dash had two hand prints where it had been worn down to the red 
>> primer.  Probably red lead, come to think of it.
>>
>> If bicycle helmets existed I never saw one.  Some kids didn't 
>> survive for one reason or the other but life went on.
>>
> 
> Yes...  bicycle helmets where completely unknown during my childhood 
> as well.  For entertainment we had fireworks, firecrackers (now 
> illegal in sweden), dismantling old electronic waste to see what's 
> inside, running around on the streets of central stockholm without 
> supervision, smoke bombs, the occasional beer sold to minors from 
> where discrete and hidden small shops.
> 
> Being young today sounds so extremely boring in comparison!

Since "they" don't have a basis for comparison, "they" won't know just 
how boring their childhood presently is.

On the other hand, is it any wonder why 'doom scrolling' on social 
media is the entertainment for much of the children growing up.  When 
all the other 'fun' stuff is removed in the name of safety, doom 
scrolling on social media is about all (besides reading a book) that is 
left for them to entertain themselves with.