Of all the skills that futurists predicted would become valuable in the era of constant communication, I don’t think anybody saw “conversational multithreading” coming.
No, I don’t mean holding multiple conversations with different people at the same time. I mean holding two or more completely separate conversations with the same person, via the same medium, at the same time.
Like when you’re texting, and the person on the other end asks you a question, then mentally eight-tracks and asks a different, unrelated question before you’ve finished keying in your response to the first one. So you answer the first question, and a conversation based on that answer ensues; then you answer the second question, and a totally different conversation based on that answer ensues, and now you’re having two separate conversations with the same person at the same time, and have to keep track of which responses pertain to which conversation purely from context.
Sometimes I wonder what the generational cutoff for that seeming unusual is – I didn’t pick up the skill until I was like thirty, so there’s always that undercurrent of generational novelty there.
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hey what’s up gamers i just read through 5 volumes of death note in like barely 2.5 hours
oookay i kind of feel like vaguing my ex lol we haven’t actually talked in what. 4 years and good fucking riddance
but it is probably time to do the reasonable thing and log out 🙂
current mood: bird screaming aaaaaa
5:27am and i’m still not in bed! this is fine, this is absolutely fine, this is f
it is 5:26am th e next day and i’m reblogging because fuCK i did it again! this is fine, absolutely fine, f
*banging my fists on a table* LET CASHIERS HAVE CHAIRS
… cashiers dont have chairs where you live? wtf
in america: if youre not standing, youre not working
in europe if youre working youre working. chairs help you. what the fuck is up wih america
HOLD UP
PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES GET TO SIT WHILE WORKING???
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