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Back when we lived without phones, we used to read instruction labels on all and any household cleaning products that were stored in the bathroom. I bet there too was some obscure newspaper column that advised against that. Yet, lo and behold, we survived!
Not just your phone. Don't read books or magazines or do other things. Get in, take your dump, be done in max 6mins, get up. Don't strain.
> be done in max 6mins this has a very "tell me you haven't had kids yet without telling me" energy to it, in opinion at least.
If pooping is the only time you spend away from your phone, you're not spending enough time away from your phone.
The reason we have declining birth rates is phones. It's not the economy. People have overwhelmingly been historically poor. Our ancestors ate rotting and festering meat and they had plenty of kids. Your great great grandparents went through some shit. HN community demographics are the exception to the rule. The problem is every man and woman is sucked into a phone. They're never bored. There's no need to plan for lo…
But then you kind of dove into the deepend there. Spy devices, 1984, etc. I think a more tempered approach is useful here
Who read this while in the act?
If pooping is the only time you spend away from your phone, you're not spending enough time away from your phone.
From an evolutionary perspective, this is a super vulnerable moment and are in a state of hyper vigilance.
Not just your phone. Don't read books or magazines or do other things. Get in, take your dump, be done in max 6mins, get up. Don't strain.