Effects of the internet ~

As time goes by I fear the effects of the Internet on our society more and more.

This incredible tool has brought people together from across the planet. It's been used to communicate, to improve life, to opening up a good thing to so many good people.

But an attitude many take when using the Internet, especially under-age teenagers, is that it's OK to lie about your age so that you can do whatever you want to do. And you learn as a user of the Internet that you don't have to tell the truth to get something that you want. You learn to maintain your anonymity, but often times it's better to lie or provide information that can be disconnected from you rapidly.

In a lot of cases, especially on social media sites, this leads to people making comments that would get them punched in the mouth if you made those comments in person.

I remember someone had left a comment on a YouTube video about how the creator's mother's birth canal was like a cave and that image haunts me today.

For a long time but wasn't so concerned about is the fact the Internet has the but as it seems deeper and deeper into the cracks of our society concerning the sprouts very dangerous fruit

Here more and more people are caught doing something that there not supposed to be doing the phrase they didn't say I couldn't do that! Because our society thrives on Cortese's blitz court decisions drive real life activities lawyers get paid lots of money to write stupid freezes like caution contents of this cup of hot coffee may be hot.

Where I work we have to have parking stickers to get in the gate. Recently we had one of our employees drive through the gate and be allowed to drive through the gate and parked in a brand-new vehicle that he had bought the night before. No parking sticker at all. When he came up to get a new parking sticker he told us about it and said you didn't think they let me in but I went ahead and pulled up at the ages, waived the right through. He tried it just to see if he would be stopped. And because performance levels so many jobs and the expectations are set so low the repercussions of not just doing a job correctly are hardly ever meted out this guy just made it right through the door secure facility.

I remember we had a exchange student from China for all that was a totally different experience for us as a family, but one of my observations was that he was more than willing to falsify anything to get what he will. When he was told that he had to apply for something he just kinda filled out the application with whatever information he felt like inside it were the parent or guardian was supposed to sign it because he just figured nobody would check.

I know that we've had this throughout our history is a country in the society. They just seem to be getting a lot worse. Because trust is already so low the trust level of our society is going lower and lower and lower nobody trusts their own family and lawlessness continues to use.

I hope that people will strive to do the right thing and be honorable. Especially the people that I'm around. Because that's what I'm doing.

Plating food ~

The continual changing of the English language is perturbing at times. But sometimes it's just funny!

I've been thinking about the word "plate" and how people serve up food. I was thinking about how the English language gets used incorrectly and nouns become verbs.

When someone is taking food out of a dish I learned that was dishing out the food. In the past few years, though, "plating" food has become the way people have said this concept. "I put it on your plate" gets shortened to " I plated the food". "I am plating it for you."

What happens if someone calls a plate a dish? Then they would have to say that I dished food for you and if someone were to say that the others would look at them and wondered if you insulted or talk bad about it? An initial thought would not be that you took food from a pan and put it on a dish so that someone could eat a portion of it.

I guess what's happening is more and more words are visual and everything is in context. But if you don't know the context of how something is being used and you can't see what they're doing if they say they're doing it for you can you keep up with the language?

I guess I need to calendar some time so that I can capture my thoughts on this. Funny!