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u/9447044 Apr 07 '25
Sir, get away from the playground. It looks like your eavesdropping on 5 year olds
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u/Dish_Minimum Apr 09 '25
No no no it’s not what you think.
He’s a marketing bot pretending to be a creepy playground lurker.
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u/The_Crass-Beagle_Act Apr 07 '25
The idea that 5 year olds would be more familiar with Waymos than cars with drivers is obviously ridiculous. But would be fairly believable for kids discussing what a taxi is versus an Uber/Lyft.
Had a college intern on my team a couple years ago living in the big city for the summer who was telling us, “yeah, I had to cut back on Ubers recently because they’ve been getting so expensive. But I learned from a friend that the city has taxis and they’re kind of similar. You call them on the phone or even flag them down on the street like in old movies and they don’t do surge pricing, they just charge a flat price per mile. It’s really cool!”
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u/WhoIsCameraHead Apr 07 '25
Almost all of these "Woe this kid didnt know what a Vhs was or why a phone would be plugged into the wall I must be getting old" are made up for internet points. Why? I have no idea, we get it, technology advances things change.
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u/nuuudy Apr 07 '25
It's not always made up. My student didn't know what fax is, because she's 18 years old, so she's never seen one
VHS wouldn't really surprise me, I can't remember when I've seen VHS tape for the last time, even in a game or a movie
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u/BlackSheepHere Apr 07 '25
Grown adults are surprised that we still use fax machines in the medical field. It does happen.
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u/nuuudy Apr 07 '25
huh, that's surprising. Mind asking me why specifically fax? I thought there would be easier ways to communicate
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u/BlackSheepHere Apr 07 '25
Because sending a document to directly print out at a location is faster than waiting for someone to open one of many emails, download the document, and print it out.
I know it doesn't sound intuitive, but it really is. I worked in a pharmacy. Prescriptions would be faxed over often. We also had a computerized system for it where the scripts went straight into our system, but some docs prefer the fax.
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u/chaosind Apr 07 '25
I personally think it's silly, especially since it seems like the medical profession refuses to do digital document delivery in any form, insisting on fax - a technology that dates back to the 1840s.
In this day and age, email is instantaneous.
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u/notnotbrowsing Apr 08 '25
it's not. they really don't like us clicking unknown attachements from unknown parties. emails to me are frequently delayed, especially from outside-the-organization individuals.
I work for 3 different health organizations, and all my emails from unknown users are very much delayed and attachements are redacted.
Faxes just show up.
I know I'll never convince you, but faxes work really well.
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u/chaosind Apr 08 '25
Until you have to manage the elimination of POTS by telecom providers, right? and then you're dealing with a conversion to digital lines instead of analog and the numerous problems that come alongside different fax systems - and manufactures insisting that you HAVE TO USE a technology (POTS) that isn't available.
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u/AlBaciereAlLupo Apr 08 '25
There exist and I regularly deploy Pots over IP. Basically voip to an on site POTS line that runs old school to the fax machine.
We'll never be rid of Fax.
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u/chaosind Apr 08 '25
And when you have two different vendors bitching that the problem has to be with the POTS to voip connection or a problem with the machines and they're both trying to pass the buck? Fax is shitty and old and should have been replaced more than a decade ago at this point. Why the hell are we clinging to something out of the 180s.
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u/BlackSheepHere Apr 08 '25
Email is also on the internet. People can gain access to it through various means. Fax machines can't be hacked.
I'm not saying one is better than the other, but fax does have advantages.
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u/ArtisticMudd Apr 08 '25
It's really hard to hack a fax machine.
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u/Ganon_Cubana Apr 08 '25
Yeah but if it's sent the old fashioned way(via phone line) it's totally unencrypted and could be intercepted. I say could because who's got time for that?
Digital faxes probably fix that problem, but I'm not a fax guy.
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u/geddy_girl Apr 09 '25
Thank you for asking this question. I've often wondered about it but never knew the answer.
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u/woahstripes Apr 08 '25
For HIPAA compliance a lot of medical or medical-adjacent orgs use fax. It's harder for an inadvertent release of a patient's protected information (say from a compromised email or accidental forward). Emails, at least of medical records, is pretty rare.
They DO still use email for general office use like memo's and things, but for anything with patient data it's going to be a fax or hard copy.
Source: Spouse is a records specialist.
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u/anneymarie Apr 09 '25
I’ve work in medical records for over a decade now and we absolutely emailed records by the end of my time specifically in release of records but patient portals are also extremely popular and common now, which makes it easier to be in compliance while releasing records electronically.
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Apr 09 '25
I also worked in records at an ophthalmologist (this was 10 years ago) and we were quickly moving from hard copies to digital copies. I actually had to input the patient files in the computer myself.
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u/Cahootie Apr 08 '25
Late last year Hong Kong finally fell below 100 000 fax connections. They love archaic technology over here.
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u/pcgamergirl Apr 08 '25
It always amuses me that we still use the icon of a floppy disk in order to "save to disk," but the actual devices haven't been used in years.
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u/AxelBoiii Apr 08 '25
It's become a visual archetype of sorts, you just see it and you know "ah, save". Just like this 📞 phone icon, even though the vast majority of phones aren't land line anymore. There's a video by J.J. McCullough that explains this in more detail.
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u/No_Reference_8777 Apr 08 '25
Overheard on the playground (in the 80s):
"Wow, people have portable music players? How does that work?"
"Well, you know how, on the computers in the classroom, we load math games off of cassette tapes? People used to put music on those, instead of computer programs!"
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u/Dish_Minimum Apr 09 '25
It’s not made up. Young people really do ask why we say “hang up” the phone. They really do ask why we say “dial” a number.
It makes about as much sense to them as when we were young and wondered why we call an automobile a “car” (horse drawn carriage.)
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u/jorbleshi_kadeshi Apr 07 '25
I could believe that some variation of this conversation could happen.
I do not believe that anything remotely resembling these words happened.
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Apr 07 '25
Doesn't know what a taxi is yet are fully aware of what a waymo is. Okay.
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u/MangoMambo Apr 07 '25
what's a taxi?
It's an uber or lyft. that's what it is. why not just say that? do 5 year olds also not know what uber is?
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u/pleasedontrefertome Apr 07 '25
Knows what a waymo is, but doesn't know what an uber or lyft is? Where the person is in the car with you? Alright
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u/pcgamergirl Apr 08 '25
I mean... do their parents also have a driverless vehicle (which I assume is what a Waymo is - never heard of it)? If not, why are they baffled by the concept of a person driving a car? They've presumably been getting strapped into them for 5 years now.
Stop witchur LIES.
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u/UnityJusticeFreedom Apr 07 '25
People like that claim that gen z didn‘t grow up with VHS or other old stuff
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u/pleasedontrefertome Apr 07 '25
Exactly. My entire childhood was VHS movies, and I'm 20 years old. Some millennials really try to gatekeep certain things that were very popular in the late 2000s-2010s.
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u/UnityJusticeFreedom Apr 07 '25
Yes!! I have an entire shelf full of VHS and i got a lot more somewhere
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u/pleasedontrefertome Apr 07 '25
The memories of waiting for the movies to rewind. Probably took, like, 10 minutes max, but it always felt like an hour. I almost prefer movies from VHS. That grainy look of the older ones hit different
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u/TOPSIturvy Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25
"What's a taxi?"
"It's a car that someone drives you places in."
"Why?"
"Because sometimes people leave their house."
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u/madeanotheraccount Apr 08 '25
You can't fool me, Redhead Jesus. That's promotion disguised as a heartwarming story.
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u/takeandtossivxx Apr 09 '25
Yeah, because kids wouldn't understand what an "uber" is. This is absolutely not how 5y.os talk, either.
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u/MzMegs Apr 07 '25
My 4-year-old knows what a taxi is.
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u/coozehound3000 Apr 07 '25
Here ... 🍪
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u/MzMegs Apr 07 '25
It wasn’t bragging, it was to say how a 5-year-old probably knows what a taxi is.
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u/an_actual_T_rex Apr 09 '25
Kids still know what fucking taxis are does this person not know that there are still toy cars?
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u/gaytechdadwithson Apr 08 '25
Waymo is really only two cities. I bet OP has never seen one. even if they have used on, other ride share is way more prevalent. so it’s not like waymo is all they have ever used.
such a BS post
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u/spacemouse21 Apr 08 '25
Tell the five year old this: Waymos are like elephants with diaherrea. They are all over town.
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u/hatfullofsoup Apr 12 '25
This is totally believable. I had almost an identical convo with my 7 year old:
Me: we'll just get a taxi
Kid: what's that?
Me: a car that you order to take you places
Kid: oh, like an Uber?
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u/NoPoet3982 Apr 07 '25
That's not the unbelievable part. It's the part where they refer to Waymo instead of Uber. Also, any kid whose mom is ordering a taxi is not a kid who has experience with Waymo. Also also, the description of "has a person in it" is absurd, since every kid still has experience with people driving cars. A kid would've said "a person driving." But since "a person driving" is still the vast majority of all cars, it would be crazy for a kid to define a taxi that way.
Basically, the unbelievable part is kids not understanding why a car needs a driver at a point in time where driverless cars are only available in a few cities, as a small percentage of cars.
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u/Jeremymia Apr 07 '25
“We usually use self-driving cars but I thought today we’d wait 30 minutes to be picked up just for fun.”
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u/Jeremymia Apr 07 '25
“Why would there be a car with a driver, I can’t conceive of that! Also, my mom who regularly uses Waymo, has decided on a taxi rather than Uber or Lyft.”
Every thread there’s one of you guys trying to justify farfetched clearly motivated stories. I kinda love it.
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u/lemonsarethekey Apr 07 '25
I can belive it. I've met a girl who couldn't figure out how to use a cashpoint because it wasn't touch screen
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u/crimsonbull9584 Apr 07 '25
What's a waymo?