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I dunno, I never feel the need to pull out my phone when drunk? If it weren’t so problematic for other reasons being drunk all the time might stop smartphone addiction.
Oh well, Heroin might even "work" better in that regard..
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So, to piss off as many religious people as possible.... A couple of goat herder psychologist a couple of millennia ago figured out if you told people they had a purpose things in general worked better. The particular problem is they made up a whole bunch of shit and when the sciences in general came around, people when "wow, religion is a bunch of controlling bullshit". Now, I will say that religion is only mostly a…
> The particular problem is they made up a whole bunch of shit and when the sciences in general came around, people when "wow, religion is a bunch of controlling bullshit". I think you have your history a bit backwards. Galileo is considered the father of modern science, and he was one of the people that believed those goat herders. He argued that his views were in accordance with the Bible, not that the Bible was a…
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We just moved from three painfully lonely acres in the countryside to a small city and my kids seem much happier.
Seriously, we moved to the middle of nowhere when I was a kid and it sucked. Nobody to play with. Not much to do outside (it was mostly just fields). So of course I found things to get up to that often got me into trouble. Boredom and lack of mental stimulation are not great for anyone, but for kids who don't yet have the skills to deal with it, the results can be a lot worse.
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lol, ok, never mind all the countless people the absence of these "values" are driving their childhoods, adolescence and lives into the ground or worse edit: Right, sorry, that was quite a reactive response on my side. I'll try to be constructive and foster conversation instead of just resorting to sarcasm: what's your point? are you seriously implying marriage and family are overall negative values?
words like "marriage" and "family" when wielded like this are effectively clubs and weasel words meant to induce an image of something akin to 50's propaganda posters of the happy american family living out their american dream, and imply that the people pointing out that's problematic are just being cynical nitpicky amoral misanthropes when really it's the people wielding them in this manner who are very selective a…
and definitely, most definitely no need to include or limit this to anything "american" whatsoever.
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I'd say marriage and family just to begin with.
The decay of marriage happened long before 2010. This has nothing to do with values.
Everyone who is skeptical of the proposed plausible cause of social media in causing depression in this thread should explain why their alternative theory holds up to the evidence that no significant increase happened both pre-2010 and is global To my knowledge there is currently no other better theory other than the rise of social media use that explains the phenomenon. Other proposed explanations such as Bad econom…
I guess global warming _can_ be generalized globally?
It sure didn't started in 2010 but neither did social networks.
Facebook opened public access in 2006 which about the same period when Twitter was launched.
_An Inconvenient Truth_ was released in 2006 and it seemed like the start of a global discussion about global warming. And behind _global warming_, there's actually the overall destruction of our environment by mankind.
I agree that social media is a cause, but the given arguments cannot exclude _global warming_. Quite the opposite.
The author attributes the rise in mental illness among teen girls to them "spending hours each day posting photos of themselves and scrolling through hundreds of carefully edited photos of other girls". As someone who was a teen girl suffering depression and extreme anxiety in the 2010s, the idea rings quite shallow. I can assure you I was not suicidal because ... other girls are pretty? what? ... but because of narc…
I have similar problem too, but then I also people got distressed over social media as well.
The existence of our problem does not mean that other people's problems are invalid / does not exist.
Everyone who is skeptical of the proposed plausible cause of social media in causing depression in this thread should explain why their alternative theory holds up to the evidence that no significant increase happened both pre-2010 and is global To my knowledge there is currently no other better theory other than the rise of social media use that explains the phenomenon. Other proposed explanations such as Bad econom…
> [...] global warming [...] either cannot be generalized globally or did not start in 2010 I guess global warming _can_ be generalized globally? It sure didn't started in 2010 but neither did social networks. Facebook opened public access in 2006 which about the same period when Twitter was launched. _An Inconvenient Truth_ was released in 2006 and it seemed like the start of a global discussion about global warming…
It marks the start of concerted white anting of the message and Koch et al funded think tanks to antiprop the fossil fuels are bad message.
An Inconvenient Truth was more the start of some limited central north american awareness starring some local politician or something.
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The drinking age is also entirely irrelevant to teens because it just means they drink at house parties rather than bars.
It also means they get arrested and the older brother who bought the case of beer could face jail time. Stupid laws that have harmed far more people than they’ve helped.
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It also created other famines.
Example? Even if it did, the average height increase the world over shows that capitalism has been an enormous win in food production and elimination of starvation.
Source(s), please?
TLDR; famines require political will to be prevented, first and foremost[0].
When you eliminate starvation, as it has happened also in non-capitalist socities, e.g. the USSR & China during the cold war, and despite horrible famines during the 20th century, everywhere, including in those two countries, height is driven by diet [1].
Specifically protein quality in developed- and protein quantity in developing countries. "Developing" says something about the standard of living, health care, access to food & water, or lack thereof.
It says nothing about the underlying economic system.
And any you make is at best correlation. Prooving causality would be extremely difficult and easily countered (see above, USSR & China, but there are many more examples). But as you made it, again, sources please.
But what is easy to make is actually the opposite point. That late stage capitalism drives inequalities in access to food in general and healthy food specifically[2,3].
And that it developed instruments that create what amounts to devastating effects to particularly people in developing societies. Often those that are capitalist economically or authoritarian politically or, worst, both. With your meaningless counterexamples in the middle eastern countries who have immense wealth from natural resources coupled with low population density.
That said: whenever I study food labels in a supermarket in the US and look at prices of food that is not highly processed and doesn't contain ingredients I would never put into my body, it is obvious that the same is true for a country that would certainly describe itself as both "capitalist" and "democratic". ;)
But to go back to your point: you are linking a cause (capitalism) with an effect (less starvation -> increase in avg. height) wrongly. What do you think Victorian England was[5]?
What do you think the middle ages in Europe[6] looked like, economically? Those are all examples of capitalist socities.
The main force that brought down starvation would probably be a combo of humanistic thinking (and eventually the acknowledgement of human rights) and modern logistics.
And the main counterforces in the 20th century be blatant ignorance of humanistic principles and wars of political systems (those two are often tightly coupled, obviously).
[0] https://www.ids.ac.uk/download.php?file=files/dmfile/wp105.p... [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1... [2] https://progressive.international/wire/2022-08-11-capitalism... [4] https://www.internationalhumanistparty.org/en/article/financ... [5] https://victorianweb.org/science/health/hunger.html [6] https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/09/04/famine-and-deart...