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I also have no phone. I have tons of friends and a very active social life - in person. I bump into friends in town, at the ski hill, at the bar and grocery store. I ask people for the time, directions and how their day is going. I’ll never have a phone.
Okay but what if daycare needs you to pick up your kid? People expect to be able to reach you…
If it’s a real emergency Call 911. They’re better trained than me.
spike protein is known to travel across the blood brain barrier https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35052867/ But of course something introduced between 2013 and 2023 that gets your cells to manufacture spike protein, with no way of regulating the spike dose, couldn't possibly be connected with memory decline.
Why would that differentially affect young people?
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I also have no phone. I have tons of friends and a very active social life - in person. I bump into friends in town, at the ski hill, at the bar and grocery store. I ask people for the time, directions and how their day is going. I’ll never have a phone.
I very rarely find myself being sincerely jealous of others, but man does your life sound amazing.
When people ask for my number and I say I don’t have a phone, 99% of all people say very passionately “omg, I wish I could get rid of this thing”. Most people don’t like their phone, which confirms my belief it won’t make my life better.
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This is inspiring. I definitely need to look into getting a landline and reducing my cellphone dependence. We’ve been talking about it lately for our daughter to be able to talk to her friends outside of school. Recently another parent had suggested face time calls which we are strongly against (not so much against video calls but rather against child tablet usage).
Pro Tip: Other parents sometimes need to be told NO, especially when it comes to matters of tech. I believe their heart is in the right place but most of them don't know the first thing about the dangers of social media, gps tracking, cellphone addiction, frequent video calls, etc. If enough pressure is applied, then it will be the norm for your local community of kids to spend time in real life together vs. 100% onl…
The irony of posting scaremongering about video calls being dangerous on a digital forum while claiming to be offline to avoid scaremongering.
> If enough pressure is applied
You cannot force the rest if your community to align with your personal viewpoints. There is no amount of “pressure” that is going to bend society to your will.
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Not only we don't use it, but it seems that everything we see is of no value at all, streams of meaningless events
This is more important than you know. Since "A variety of memory systems are regulated by dopamine in the brain." [1], being force feed stimulation after stimulation will affect memory due to the diminishing release of dopamine of less stimulating events. Being from the first year of Gen X I lived both of these lives. I remember reading newspapers on the subway going to work in Manhattan, having to focus to scan the…
I'm not sure it's social media as much as just mobile phones. I used to memorize phone numbers, addresses, directions, short notes, etc. Memory works like a muscle - use it or lose it.
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Wild to me that the first mention of COVID is this far down the page. Most people have been infected at least a couple of times may this point, and at this point it’s very well documented to cause lasting cognitive decline.
The actual article (not the blog post) does mention it as likely partial cause.
spike protein is known to travel across the blood brain barrier https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35052867/ But of course something introduced between 2013 and 2023 that gets your cells to manufacture spike protein, with no way of regulating the spike dose, couldn't possibly be connected with memory decline.
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> consciously removed Please retain this turn of speech that helps autonomic (carbon) and automated (silicon) filters.
I don’t think I quite caught your meaning.
Took me a bit to figure it out too
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Bacteria (and your body) like sugar because it’s an easy to use fuel source. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having reasonable amounts of sugar in your diet.
Define reasonable.