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Daniel Anderson's avatar

I used to boast of being the first to leave you a comment 😆

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Peter Venetoklis's avatar

We used to play that game at WSJ's Best of the Web when James Taranto wrote it. Making top 10 in comments was considered braggable. Leave a placeholder, then read the article, then edit the comment to something relevant. :)

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dave walker's avatar

Modern technology has driven nearly everyone to be satisfied by instant gratification….. even people in rural careers like ranching and farming. Need to know NOW! Or guess about it NOW!

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Peter Venetoklis's avatar

A sense of entitlement to instant information has grown ever since cable news went 24 hours. No matter that those stations would fill their time with fluff and fact-less opinion much of the time, we expect instant answers.

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dave walker's avatar

I still have a few hold out friends that only have a cell phone with out displaying the number/name. You leave them a message on the home answering machine. They won’t share their cell number because they DO NOT WANT to be shown the latest meme, link to xyz, or even be called to see what’s up. It’s too much for us, because the public needs to be able to access us easily to set up in/out times. But, I can really appreciate the amount of time they do not waste daily answering spam calls and texts. Of course email is one they randomly set up and may check regularly, but only reply to actual messages that matter (to them) 🤣 hello pre-1993 ish….

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