Why do old people suck?

[Velber]

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[LeftIsBest-James]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย MoreEvilSquid:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chibi Life:

Children can learn things more effortlessly because their developing brains are able to take in information around them at an inhuman pace. Older people have to put in effort to learn things but it doesn't mean they CAN'T learn anything. Often times older people are just done with life and don't give a sh!t to know anything new but they still can.

But here's the things. Despite children having inhuman learning speeds, there's still dumb kids out there. The same goes for older people, while there's a bunch of set-in-their-ways stubborn older people, there are also older people who can and are willing to learn new things.

The only difference is effort required if one wants to learn and the cognitive abilities of the older person, they can learn either faster or slower than the expected learning rates and it's usually sufficient enough to keep up with changing times if they're willing.

I think I'll have to disagree that they have "inhuman" learning speeds. That could only be the case if they weren't human...

In theory they should have the ability to learn faster than adults, that is true.

It is also true that there are people out there that never took advantage of their learning capabilities while younger, preferring to run amuck - and then they grow up and realise they wasted their life and now they pump gas for a living.

Personally, I believe one should always strive to learn while alive. Anyone not willing to do that is holding back the species and should kindly remove themselves from the gene pool, freeing up resources for those more inclined toward self improvement.

Children are sponges for information.
Whether it's balancing a taxsheet or catfishing-online or catfishing-in-a-river.

Skills you learn hunting jackrabbits isn't useful today - but was before.
Your judgement of value (while I soft-agree) is contextual.

[srfrogg23]

Get off my lawn!

[LeftIsBest-James]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chibi Life:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย LeftIsBest-James:

Old people need to support, rather than clutch onto power - (gatekeepers, ladder-kickers, power-hoarders. politically speaking)

Hey now, the White House is a very safe retiring home for all of the elderly people there.

WhiteHouse, both Houses, CEOs, etc.

[Maya]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย LeftIsBest-James:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Maya:

The new old people are going to suck lol.

https://youtu.be/uSh5voSUhrs?si=3SmVo5x59DAlkAXg

This is cope.
Old complaining:
- damn flappers
- damn hippies
- damn punks
- damn avocado millenials.

All old people suck. Haters, probably already do.

Maybe you should start hanging out with younger people, instead of grumpy old men.

[FREEZED]

it is never about age, it is about intellectual capacity, if you are really smart and you know how things go, then everyone listens you no matter of your age.

[LeftIsBest-James]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย srfrogg23:

Get off my lawn!

Stop hogging positions of power. :)

[MoreEvilSquid]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย apocryphalbob:

ALL people suck. Literally everyone on the planet sucks. There is no escape from the suck. Embrace the suck.
Another Buck, another day in the Suck.
Now suck my unit. *


*watch Tropic Thunder, you can thank me later*

What do YOU mean, you people?!

[LeftIsBest-James]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย FREEZED:

it is never about age, it is about intellectual capacity, if you are really smart and you know how things go, then everyone listens you no matter of your age.

Intellectual Capacity*, (a debunkable rightwing race-talkingpoint in there):
- is a product of opportunity and contextual metrics.
- often used to gatekeep rights from people

* Both "Intellectual Capactity" and "Education" are affected.

[Bingy Bingy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย LeftIsBest-James:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย srfrogg23:

Get off my lawn!

Stop hogging positions of power. :)

Yes, yes, the power of his lawn. I can see why you covet it. It's a nice lawn.

[ositodefelpa]

Wait till you're old. Then you'll find out how much more they suck than they do now ;-)

[MoreEvilSquid]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chibi Life:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย MoreEvilSquid:

Personally, I believe one should always strive to learn while alive. Anyone not willing to do that is holding back the species and should kindly remove themselves from the gene pool, freeing up resources for those more inclined toward self improvement.

I have some bad news. It turns out, statistically, only stupid people are having children in developed nations because smart people are opting out seeing more risks than benefits to having children.

Yes, Idiocracy is our future unfortunately.

Better pour that Gatorade on the crops to make them grow better.

[LeftIsBest-James]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย MoreEvilSquid:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chibi Life:

I have some bad news. It turns out, statistically, only stupid people are having children in developed nations because smart people are opting out seeing more risks than benefits to having children.

Yes, Idiocracy is our future unfortunately.

Better pour that Gatorade on the crops to make them grow better.

Idiocracy - that VERY FUNNY - problematic eugenics-promoting video?

[MoreEvilSquid]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย LeftIsBest-James:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย FREEZED:

it is never about age, it is about intellectual capacity, if you are really smart and you know how things go, then everyone listens you no matter of your age.

Intellectual Capacity*, (a debunkable rightwing race-talkingpoint in there):
- is a product of opportunity and contextual metrics.
- often used to gatekeep rights from people

* Both "Intellectual Capactity" and "Education" are affected.

If the society in question has true equal opportunity, then a smart person born poor can achieve great things.

Actually this is also true even without true equal opportunity - it's just more difficult for anyone not born into the right background/privelege in those cases.

But true equal opportunity is not a gatekeeper - if everyone has the opportunity (including but not limited to the same education, that education being both available and affordable for everyone), then those that do not take the opportunity have no one to blame but themselves (at least once they're old enough to accept responsibility for their own actions, which these days seems to be something people don't want to do any more).

[Starbug]

Is this about people over 30?

[PIT_DEFENDER]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Pseudomonarchiadaiymo:

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Cause they think they are smart just because they are older and when they have an opinion they think its a fact, and will argue with you forever the sky isnt blue just because they know better than you ... just look at all the chessclub clowns in this forum xD