More Than 1.1 Million Fewer Americans on Food Stamps Under Trump

[smilesammich 10,727]

8 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

Just a hunch but how bout we send them to Venezuela?

this. this is what sets us a part from the robots. great ideas!

[yuna628 9,665]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

Why is that?  Do you have any papers discussing this?

Well, you can take a quick google to find lots of examples about it. But overall since the birth of the internet and increased emphasis on tech communication - rather than old fashioned methods such as letter writing, phone calls, and face to face time.. things just aren't the way they used to be. Internet communication and txting is the rage and with that technology available, people are becoming more isolated from one another and unable to actually communicate properly. Instead of a Happy Birthday phone call or card, it's the Happy Birthday txt message... the context of speech and complex ideas are simply half-thoughts spaced into Twitter's character limit. I can't even remember the last time one of my other siblings has actually called my Mom. She has to txt someone else (yep still won't call them either) to ask how she is. Do we even offer creative writing or communication courses to kids anymore? Technology is increasingly providing less human interaction with each other, rather than more. My husband and I went to a local place a few weeks ago to eat and the only human interaction we had was via the hostess, the bartender, and the person who brought out the food. Menus were already on the table, each spot has it's own mini computer you order food directly from and pay for it too. Some studies have also shown that if people tend to only develop relationships solely online from an early age, they increasingly find it more difficult to communicate with each other face to face. The less physical talking and inability to communicate with someone you do, the less humans will want to do it. I'm pretty introverted, so you won't find me as the life of the party, but it absolutely drives me crazy when kids.. and adults for that matter, simply have no communication skills whatsoever. That really translates into pretty bad customer service skills too. And who wants to deal with people like that, if you can interact with a computer? https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html

 

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For example, 99% of Americans have cell phones, but spend 26 minutes per day texting and only 6 minutes on calls. In fact, the first ever decline in global mobile voice usage occurred in 2013 and that trend is likely to continue. How does your talking and texting stack up against the averages?

This may not come as a shock, but about 1 out of every 4 people socializes more online than in person, 32% of people would rather text you than talk to you, and a whopping 51% of teens would rather communicate digitally than in person (even with friends). http://attentiv.com/we-dont-speak/

 

 

 

53 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

now folks, this is the part in the show where alex jones starts screaming about fema camps and biodegradable coffins. whatever shall we do with all the useless people?

Anything to make Alex drop over at his desk...

I tend to think useless people don't become so useless anymore with a good education and access to skills to enable them to learn a trade.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

2 hours ago, IAMX said:

You'll find a lot of alcoholics (stock market investors) who will fight you in a drunken frenzy because they want their punch bowl spiked.

 

Awesome movie 

[smilesammich 10,727]

14 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Anything to make Alex drop over at his desk...

I tend to think useless people don't become so useless anymore with a good education and access to skills to enable them to learn a trade.

but then who will fill all the camps and coffins obama's fema ordered  maybe we can fill em with the educated and skilled workers that make poor decisions or have opinions we don't like? give me something...

[Teddy B 17,251]

30 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Well, you can take a quick google to find lots of examples about it. But overall since the birth of the internet and increased emphasis on tech communication - rather than old fashioned methods such as letter writing, phone calls, and face to face time.. things just aren't the way they used to be. Internet communication and txting is the rage and with that technology available, people are becoming more isolated from one another and unable to actually communicate properly. Instead of a Happy Birthday phone call or card, it's the Happy Birthday txt message... the context of speech and complex ideas are simply half-thoughts spaced into Twitter's character limit. I can't even remember the last time one of my other siblings has actually called my Mom. She has to txt someone else (yep still won't call them either) to ask how she is. Do we even offer creative writing or communication courses to kids anymore? Technology is increasingly providing less human interaction with each other, rather than more. My husband and I went to a local place a few weeks ago to eat and the only human interaction we had was via the hostess, the bartender, and the person who brought out the food. Menus were already on the table, each spot has it's own mini computer you order food directly from and pay for it too. Some studies have also shown that if people tend to only develop relationships solely online from an early age, they increasingly find it more difficult to communicate with each other face to face. The less physical talking and inability to communicate with someone you do, the less humans will want to do it. I'm pretty introverted, so you won't find me as the life of the party, but it absolutely drives me crazy when kids.. and adults for that matter, simply have no communication skills whatsoever. That really translates into pretty bad customer service skills too. And who wants to deal with people like that, if you can interact with a computer? https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html

 

All that is true n stuff, but what about the poor people in Venezuela? They ain't got no internetz cause socialism.

[Teddy B 17,251]

12 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

but then who will fill all the camps and coffins obama's fema ordered  maybe we can fill em with the educated and skilled workers that make poor decisions or have opinions we don't like? give me something...

Still got all those fema trailers that W and Brownie ordered back in 2005, sounds like problem fixed to me.

[Tahoma 2,292]

Trump: "Great thread!!!  I love taking credit for Clinton's laws.  I love it so much that I made hyyyuge cuts to food stamps in my 2018 budget.  But no one will go hungry.  Those hungry children will just have to get a job like the rest of us."

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

17 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

Still got all those fema trailers that W and Brownie ordered back in 2005, sounds like problem fixed to me.

I know someone that bought 100s of those , things and made bank on the resale 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

31 minutes ago, Tahoma said:

Trump: "Great thread!!!  I love taking credit for Clinton's laws.  I love it so much that I made hyyyuge cuts to food stamps in my 2018 budget.  But no one will go hungry.  Those hungry children will just have to get a job like the rest of us."

we cannot just spend Money on food for hungry people just because it sounds good, what we need to do is get analysis on what our money is buying us, what about a little compassion for the taxpayer?

[yuna628 9,665]

1 hour ago, Teddy B said:

All that is true n stuff, but what about the poor people in Venezuela? They ain't got no internetz cause socialism.

To paraphrase: ''Give a man an internetz and you will bore them for a day, teach a man to internetz and...'' I got nothing.. sorry.

[Teddy B 17,251]

1 minute ago, yuna628 said:

To paraphrase: ''Give a man an internetz and you will bore them for a day, teach a man to internetz and...'' I got nothing.. sorry.

The poor people of Venezuela feel your pain.

[Tahoma 2,292]

3 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

we cannot just spend Money on food for hungry people just because it sounds good, what we need to do is get analysis on what our money is buying us, what about a little compassion for the taxpayer?

Trump: "I'm the most compassionate president ever!!!  I'm going to give that $190 billion cut from the food stamps program to those who need it the most...wealthy taxpayers and large corporations."

[IAMX 3,055]

3 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I know someone that bought 100s of those , things and made bank on the resale 

Wonder if it was bought by the same fin toil hats that always talked about fema concentration camps that never materialized.