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I only have speculative answers on offer... Somehow the sexual revolution of the 60s/70s running out of steam, and a correction taking place. A growing influence of American cultur…

In the 80s/90s, on Dutch TV we'd have daytime deodorant commercials on public channels featuring naked women applying the product. Wasn't even considered sexual content, and in no …

Great comment. The status quo is so bizarre. Human life has no inherent value unless it makes continuous contributions to "the economy". It would be economically most efficient to …

The French are sometimes ridiculed for their "unrealistic" worker demands but as a Dutch person, I greatly admire their unity. Here in the Netherlands, we pride ourselves on our "p…

My take on this is that bizarre as it is, most companies do not seem to care much about productivity in the first place. If you look at the typical knowledge worker (non-manager) t…

In our work culture of "toxic positivity" we've forgotten that most employees, in any business, care about pay and job security first and foremost.

We should spend less time on the crazy outcomes of these institutes and more time on why they can even exist in the first place. They are somehow funded yet not accountable to anyo…

Ah yes, the myth of rejecting nihilism. Just like my last restaurant visit where I ordered stale bread and water. Enough for survival, the rest is pure vanity.

Whatever happened to concepts like "probable cause" and "innocent until proven guilty"?

Go do volunteer work, it's where you meet people that like to see you coming. Then build from there.

Only on HN can one debate the purpose of legs.

In general I'm annoyed by references to history. Computing, internet, social media, smartphones...each of these jumps are unprecedented.

The parent comment is pointless intellectualism. I'm really quite sure that people can grasp that when you put a fish on dry land, it's not made for that. And that similarly, we're…

Your response is as predictable as HN can possibly be.

We're not that horrible. The chronically online character overconsumes news, which is almost always bad news, as that grabs the attention. Complemented by hysterical, pessimistic s…

Nice try, Taylor Lorenz.

I could not disagree more. Before smartphones, one would "surf the web" for an hour or so at night, and physically sit down at a PC. That's a radically different experience compare…

You're contradicting the entire point of the article. You mention increases as of 2017 and 2019 whilst the phone narrative aligns with 2012 and beyond. Mental health fell of a clif…

Not giving unrestricted access to a smartphone to a child is child abuse? GTFO.

Similar. Teen(ish) in the 80s. Only during my early 30s did I learn that during that era, the nuke to end us all could very well drop, and it had one of the worst economic crises e…

We're biological creatures evolved to be outside, to interact with the physical world and real people. It's easily replicable. Go out for some more walks, plan more visits with fri…

I think the scenario you describe is the least of smartphone problems. You already are meeting physically with a friend. That's a good place to be in. The far more impactful issue …

We've already had a few decades that had the technical potential to start working less over time. But it did not happen. If anything, we started working more, especially when seen …

Fully agree with your take. CSS should have more straightforward properties that actually do what people intuitively expect it to do without additional dependencies and weird side …

It appears to me that Silicon Valley is unaware that there's such a thing as Food Valley. Which does exactly what you ask for. Food Valley centers around the Dutch University of Wa…