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Comment Re:And before the 21st century, since 1950s... (Score 1) 72

Kids who sat on their ass in front of the tv too long had worse health including significantly higher odds of depression, obesity, ...

Nonsense. TV was watched as a family event with compromises being made as to what was being watched and with continuous interaction with fellow family members during the shows. This is opposed to the solitary way social media is consumed. Kids didn't have 24/7 access to algorithmically tailored personal programming - nobody did.

Comment Re:Blaming a single cause (Score 1) 85

Long droughts would not prevent records from being recorded and preserved.

It most certainly would. Records are kept and maintained by academics and bureaucrats, professions that can only be supported in societies that enjoy a sufficient surplus to allow non productive workers to exist

Comment Re: the world should reward them (Score 3, Informative) 179

America is authoritarian in that your federal bureaucracy has been purged of non MAGA leadership, your capital turned into an armed camp, the DOJ prosecutes political opponents and personal enemies of The Leader, The President is acting without legal authority in taxation and defense, a terror force has been activated to disappear "undesirables", and the entirety of the military leadership has been informed that the new prime target is American citizens opposed to MAGA.

Comment Ludditical Approach (Score 1) 70

Social media has gone through two eras ... First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you followed directly.

All of my FB content continues to be from friends, family, and accounts that I follow directly. I use the F.B. Purity extension on a separate browser used only for F.B., and the "Feeds" link buried in the left side drop-down on my home page to Keep it that way.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbpurity.com%2F

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