Part of me thinks the meanness with which people interact with each other online makes people more hesitant to interact with others irl.
Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism
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#32Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
Pickleball courts
Re: Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism
#33Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
Our (the states) reliance on car central culture is killing us in more ways than one.
I grew up in the suburbs and you could easily go a week without substantially interacting with people.
Jump in your metal capsule, drive 7 mins to Walmart, walk quietly across the huge parking lot, get your item and return home.
Contrasted with dense urban city with public transit, you will serendipitously bump into people and be forced to interact more with society, even if it is just exchanging pleasantries.
This is killing ourselves socially, not to mention how much cars cause physical death.
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>evangelical doomers and GOP clowns
As if reddit (and similar left leaning spaces) aren't filled with "doomers" and "clowns".
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poor extroverts can't stand the sound of their own thoughts or others like them, so they have to prey on introverts!
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#37Not just US albeit about US we have interesting data.
I've read that the average american adult went from spending 11 hours per week with friends and family few decades ago to 4+ in 2010s, and sub 3 after covid.
Loneliness is the big sickness of our modern IT times.
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#38Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
I do improvisational comedy. The improv community is very small despite being in a major metropolitan area.
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#39Always funny to see the kind of prestige the Surgeon General has in the US, and the weight that statements like this carry (like the one on smoking, too). Here in NL I can't think of anyone in a similar position. (I'm not knocking it at all, to be clear)
It goes beyond him.
He's the head of one of the US government's eight uniformed services[0]. Like, in a sense, he's literally a general.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Se...
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of options." The data on 4 Day Week trials has been positive in almost all cases [1], across many countries, same with remote work. We should try it if we care, I just don't think we care at a system level. Like rapidly declining fertility rates, there is enough will to complain, no will to change anything (imho, based on observations and the data). Maybe things need to get wors…
The bitter fact that we all have to swallow: higher management isn't interested in scientific facts.
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