People of all ages are certainly conditioned to record and photograph every little thing out of the ordinary, which takes away from being present. Phones in general are incredibly distracting from taking you out of the moment.
It's also incredible technology the ability to capture any photo/video at any time. There's no real tangible loss of taking too many pictures ie you aren't wasting any film/money.
Photos/video are really just a way to remember the past. People in the 90s would record pretty benign stuff too with camcorders and cameras, just the tech was more expensive and not readily affordable and available like it is today.
Also the zoo in particular brings out the nature photographer larp. Documenting nature in the wild takes an incredible amount of skill, luck, and patience. At the zoo you cut out all the hard work and get the instant gratification of shots which would be borderline impossible irl
Is anyone going to look back fondly on sleeping zoo animals or shaky concert footage? Prob not. I just think the conditioning of it is a way to help us remember the past, so at the end of the day it's only mildly annoying at worst, and pretty harmless.
I think a better example of technology alienation is a couple/family all scrolling on their phones during dinner together.
I took the Android leap from Apple about six years ago and never looked back. Androids are superior in almost every way when it comes to privacy and customization
Apple stopped being innovative around the time Steve Jobs died; each update is just more ways to spy and spam you with a slightly better camera. I will say iPhones are very user friendly, so there is like a 20 min learning curve converting from Apple to Android.
Also not sure where you are getting your phone plan, but there's only 3 tower providers in the US now. Verizon, At&t, and T-Mobile. I'd avoid any of those as a carrier because they tend to overcharge.
Low cost carriers still operate service under 1 of those 3 company's towers, so you'll still get the same service but at a cheaper price. I use Boost Mobile, $50 a month with no hidden fees, month-to-month and somehow the price hasn't gone up in five years.
There was a "reality" show about this called "Pig Royalty" about two rival Texan families who competed in pig showing competitions like this. It was made by the same production company as Breaking Amish so that's why "reality" is in sarcastic airquotes. It's basically two seasons of this with some manufacturered drama peppered in.
It got canceled after the second season and has since been scrubbed from Discovery+ streaming (v sus). Also, one of the kids on the show committed suicide in 2024 very heartbreaking
It makes for a funny headline, but that's like 0.4% of the chain's total revenue of around 2.6 billion in 2023
More likely the private equity firm that bought Red Lobster is running it into the ground on purpose to do some credit bidding buy back bankruptcy scam that's somehow technically legal to write off a bunch of debt.
I've always sort of wondered the obsession and deep emotional connection some people have with sports.
The best I can come up with is its part tribalism, but more so I think it's experiencing vicarious success. If you put in the emotional work to follow your team, especially with a displaced loyalty during losing seasons, their successes are your successes by proxy, but it also distances you from their failures.
Success irl is hard to come by and this is a chance to feel success without actually working very hard towards it, other than the emotional investment
Idk does anyone have any other thoughts why some people get so attached to their team?
market as just a measurement of rich people's feelings, it's made a lot more sense
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