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Don't use your phone while you poop

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Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

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Post by alansaber »

echelon wrote: post #48
Retr0id wrote: post #24

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…

Trained on short form gratification loops? Just the opposite. They're the path of least resistance. It was thermodynamically inevitable that short form content would dominate.

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

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Post by brtkwr »

01100011 wrote: post #63

Pooping is interesting. Having a toddler reminded me how pooping is this uniquely vulnerable, sensitive time for humans. I think a lot of us use books/phones/etc to distract ourselves from a sensorily intense activity. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, just noting it. I will say that playing my Nintendo DS on the toilet many years ago gave me hemorrhoids that still persist decades later. Don't camp on the to…

Yes, the only other closest parallel is maybe giving birth without reducing the intensity of an experience of child birth…

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

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Post by tripleee »

b3ing wrote: post #60
andsoitis wrote: post #3

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.

6 mins? Maybe with a squatty potty and if I'm lucky. Otherwise it's almost always 15-25min for me, not sure why, it just takes time.

you need more fiber and/or water

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

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Post by Henchman21 »

echelon wrote: post #48
Retr0id wrote: post #24

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…

Right it has nothing to do with pollution or endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the environment. Yeah its definitely phones.

Re: Don't use your phone while you poop

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Post by pasc1878 »

david-gpu wrote: post #43
jhfdbkofdchk wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes yes I know this contains sodium laureth sulfate what else have you got?

Aqua and sodium chloride. Because saying water and salt doesn't sound posh enough, somehow.

No it is diversity.

The ingredients have to be understandable by non English speakers – so water is out.

As for salt which one?

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