Boy we really need to figure out what the hell has been going on in the past 30+ years. something must have got in our food supply to affect these people's brains. maybe roundup and other things.

I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics and i
have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younger than me.

I have one guy who is in his own little world and acts weird. he's supposed to be watching the machine run after setup and watch it feed and stop it if there's an issue. he was staring at the wall while the machine malfunctioned for over a minute. i said why are you staring at the wall?? and he said he wasn't and he said he was 'looking over there' which he then pointed to another wall.

and he also picks up his arms like a t-rexdinosaur and darts away
before the process is done. it's like he wants to get the fuck out of there because he doesn't want to do it. he also drew a picture of a guy with a beard and wrote meat hunter on it and stuck it to the machine. Both his
mother and him work at the same place and if she doesn't come in, he doesn't come in. he also disappears when the machine is almost done and we have to switch materials.

They gave me another guy and he wasn't great either. he told he he'd be
right back. i said okay but we have 12 operations left and it's done and i can show you how to setup. and he said ok. this is a short amount of time. he disappeared for 45 mins. I went to go get water and he was in the break room. he was reading the 4 page SOP on and off all night and i did a quick jokingly quiz about what do you do with the machine at the end of the shift. he couldn't remember. You have to home it. there's not much else he could have gathered from that instruction other than that part. he also brought
up something like that in the beginning as a question so i thought he'd get it when i asked him. overall he had a lot of trouble remembering what to do all night and there's not much to do. you set it up and wait an hour. it's easy stuff.

just real space cases.


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Re: people with autism
By: MRO to All on Fri May 01 2026 02:12 pm

I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics and i have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younger than me.

Can you give a rough age range / estimate because this is just.. something else... wondering if it could be a generational thing?
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I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics and i have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younger than
me.

Can you give a rough age range / estimate because this is just.. something else... wondering if it could be a generational thing?

I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in
a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the
ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without, or with little, restriction have broken attention spans.

Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such
things really notice the difference.


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On 02 May 2026, MIKE POWELL said the following...

I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics an have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younge than
me.

Can you give a rough age range / estimate because this is just.. somethi else... wondering if it could be a generational thing?

I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without,
or with little, restriction have broken attention spans.

there is research coming out that any education involving computers, tablets, etc. is reducing student outcome. i don't know if it's just people's brains being wired to think "this knowledge is always available on the internet i don't need it now (or may never)" vs "this is knowledge i have in my own head, i might need it someday" or what..

Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such things really notice the difference.

then again we had video games and tons of junk TV and movies (including subliminal messaging! ever want a dr pepper after watching spiderman with tobey maguire? lol) and somehow we managed to put a line between that and education.

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Re: Re: people with autism
By: fusion to MIKE POWELL on Sat May 02 2026 02:25 pm

I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in
a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the >ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without, or with >little, restriction have broken attention spans.

Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such
things really notice the difference.

The real weird one is 19. the guy what took off for 45+ mins is
around 35. The kid's mom is real smart, but he isn't really at all like that. my lead actually apologized because he thought he'd only be with me a few hours.

Basically in the workforce i see 18-25-30 years old that do outragious
things even when making decent pay.

Being high at work. walking off. taking 2 half hour lunches back to back.
I'm also near minnesota so there's cultural and other problems/issues because there's hmong and somali. I don't know. is it cultural or what when you
hide someplace at work to talk with your friends for half the night? Or
don't come back from the breakroom so your supervisors have to come get 30 people. I usually have a regular job and then a pt job to help pay off my credit cars so I've seen a lot of weird shit.


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Re: Re: people with autism
By: fusion to MIKE POWELL on Sat May 02 2026 02:25 pm

then again we had video games and tons of junk TV and movies
(including subliminal messaging! ever want a dr pepper after watching spiderman with tobey maguire? lol) and somehow we managed to put a
line between that and education.

yeah we had hypnotic video games that we were glued to all day and night.
yes i went outside sometimes to play basketball and other stuff.

I'm going to blame this on roundup destroying our dna.
they used to spray that shit on the crops to dry it out so our food wouldn't get mold and go bad.


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Re: Re: people with autism
By: fusion to MIKE POWELL on Sat May 02 2026 02:25 pm

The real weird one is 19. the guy what took off for 45+ mins is
around 35. The kid's mom is real smart, but he isn't really at all like that. my lead actually apologized because he thought he'd only be with me a few hours.

Basically in the workforce i see 18-25-30 years old that do outragious
things even when making decent pay.

Being high at work. walking off. taking 2 half hour lunches back to back. I'm also near minnesota so there's cultural and other problems/issues because there's hmong and somali. I don't know. is it cultural or what when you hide someplace at work to talk with your friends for half the night? Or don't come back from the breakroom so your supervisors have to come get 30 people. I usually have a regular job and then a pt job to help pay off my credit cars so I've seen a lot of weird shit.

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Re: Re: people with autism
By: Raymar to MRO on Sun May 03 2026 10:19 pm

All of those people were born at/after the internet was
released. For years, I've noticed a fundamental difference
between pre and post internet people.

i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.


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Re: Re: people with autism
By: MRO to fusion on Sat May 02 2026 09:30 pm

yeah we had hypnotic video games that we were glued to all day and night. yes i went outside sometimes to play basketball and other stuff.

Not me. The very first PONG machine did not even exist until I was a senior in highschool and I never even heard of it back then, much less ever saw one.

But at 70, I have a bball court in my yard and still use it regularly.

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Re: Re: people with autism
By: MRO to Raymar on Mon May 04 2026 12:51 am

All of those people were born at/after the internet was released. For
years, I've noticed a fundamental difference between pre and post internet
people.

i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.

Oh? I think what he meant was when the internet became mainstream. I hadn't even heard of the internet before 1995.

Nightfox

All of those people were born at/after the internet was
released. For years, I've noticed a fundamental difference
between pre and post internet people.

i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.

After it was created, maybe. It didn't move from being for universities
and the government to being a thing for the general public until I was in
my mid-20's and out of college.


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I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without,
or with little, restriction have broken attention spans.

there is research coming out that any education involving computers, tablets, etc. is reducing student outcome. i don't know if it's just people's brains being wired to think "this knowledge is always
available on the internet i don't need it now (or may never)" vs "this
is knowledge i have in my own head, i might need it someday" or what..

Some schools are moving away from "screen time" learning and back towards
more traditional classrooms as a result. I think that is a good thing. ;)

Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such things really notice the difference.

then again we had video games and tons of junk TV and movies (including subliminal messaging! ever want a dr pepper after watching spiderman
with tobey maguire? lol) and somehow we managed to put a line between
that and education.

IIRC, the Tobey Maguire Spiderman came out when I was around 30. :D Some
kids I knew had video game equipment at home, but most of us didn't. TV
does come with some gotchas but it does require you to pay attention so you don't miss something... especially back in the day when most of us couldn't record it and there was no streaming. ;)

On the internet, it has got to where sites like Youtube prioritize short content (< 2 minutes) over longer form videos. A lot of creators of long
form content have been complaining about that because they are loosing
views and money to the short form content. Best as I can tell,
everything on sites like Instagram and Tik Tok are aimed at short attention spans.



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Being high at work. walking off. taking 2 half hour lunches back to back. I'm also near minnesota so there's cultural and other problems/issues because there's hmong and somali. I don't know. is it cultural or what when you hide someplace at work to talk with your
friends for half the night? Or don't come back from the breakroom so
your supervisors have to come get 30 people. I usually have a regular
job and then a pt job to help pay off my credit cars so I've seen a lot
of weird shit.

Yeah, back when I was that age, doing things like that was a good way to
get fired.


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Oh? I think what he meant was when the internet became mainstream. I hadn't even heard of the internet before 1995.

Nightfox

Around '92 for me. That's about when all the BBS's started dying off or offering internet service if I remember correctly.

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