[coldtea]

>But I feel sorry to see them suffer while they might have not if they were able to use smartphone for entertainment.

Well, they also might have not if they have gotten a hobby, learned to read books, and so on.

Why feel sorry that they're not accustomed with one of the worse options? And one that everybody and their dog seems to want to cut down these days?

[scotty79]

Smartphone is not one of the worse options. It's one of the best options. Thanks to it I'm just discusing ideas with you while lying in a garden. Which is at the moment my preferred way of wasting my time.

No other tool would allow me to waste my time this way. If I couldn't do it I'd read fantasy book I got for my recent birthday but it wouldn't be nearly as intelectually stimulating.

[UnFleshedOne]

Sounds like a waste of a perfectly good garden. Try looking at a plant for 5 straight minutes. It is amazing the number of details and features and events you can see if you just sit still for 5 mins and look.

[scotty79]

I already looked at plants over my four decades of life and they are not that interesting unless you need them for something. And you rarely do.

Besides, I was looking today at small aphid infested tree for few minutes. Even poked some. Then I got bored and went back to discussing you. There are so many minutes to kill in a given day.

[coldtea]

>It's one of the best options. Thanks to it I'm just discusing ideas with you while lying in a garden.

Which seems like a totally detrimental use of one's time!

[scotty79]

At least it's not passive consumption.