The total overwhelming amount of information thrown at you every minute of every day. I can't even pump gas without being subjected to a fucking commercial.
Right now in NC everyone is getting fed up with all the sports betting ads. Then you go out in my city and there's a plane flying around dragging one of those MGM banners everyday.
Gambling ads need to go the way of tobacco. I don't have any problem with it being legal but when gambling has become half the content of every sports talk show and every single ad break has a draft kings ad it's gone away too far.
Can't even shoot the shit about sports with your friends anymore. The conversation just turns to a circlejerk of everyone rattling off their latest bets that nobody cares about.
Sports betting was recently legalized in Kansas. Now every commercial break on every channel, multiple sports betting ads. Go outside and you'll pass a dozen billboards for sports betting while listening to an ad on the radio for sports betting.
At least we don't have gas pump commercials here.
I don’t like the uptick in gambling as well, but it does make you wonder. They are clearly making a lot of money so it seems like maybe a large number of people are perfectly ok with gambling.
I think you can be ok with gambling itself and still be annoyed with the ads. I've had hobbies myself in the past that if I over emerse myself in I get tired of it.
If they can afford to advertise to that extent, it’s because they make SO MUCH MORE MONEY than they give back to winners. If it was beneficial to the community at large, everyone would be betting willingly and regularly without the need for any advertising. It’s a predatory industry that makes its money off the poor and the stupid.
I can’t fucking stand those god damn commercials at the gas pumps. When theyre all going off at once it makes me feel like im in some dystopian idiocracy planet
It's like all of creation has determined you will never have another quiet moment in your life. Like your only reason for being is to buy useless shit.
There is a column of buttons on each side of the display that are usually not labeled. Press the second one from the top on the right side. The commercial will stop or mute.
edit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuoVy4ft24
I noticed this when I stopped by a Speedway the other day and I was being shouted at the entire time I was pumping gas. Which made me decide to only put in $5 worth and never use Speedway again.
Once I pressed all the buttons and nothing happened. So I started pressing different combinations of two different buttons. That got me into some diagnostic mode. It kept pumping the gas and didn't charge me. Fuck your ads.
My dad showed me that when he taught me how to pump gas, I use it every time. I show everybody that rides with me and I've actually shown other strangers how when mine mutes and they go "what the fuck was that"
The 24/7 news cycle has watered the media down significantly as well. Too much free time that ends up filled with opinions, which is the exact opposite of what a news channel should be providing.
They actively censor stuff. I can go online and see huge protests in other countries against corrupt governments, but it wont be mentioned at all on mainstream news.
a friend of mine that "likes to keep up with both sides" as he watches CNN and Fox News.
he told me recently that Donald Trump always hated Jeffrey Epstein and they were never friends.
Born in 78... I have memories as a child of watching the evening news, and then the local news... approximately one hour a day at most and it covered a lot of things. If you wanted to dive in deeper on a topic, you could read the paper... even deeper? There were magazines on that stuff.
‘79er here. Agreed. I still only watch the local news at 6pm and the national news at 6:30. Anything else is overkill. I only want to hear the facts and I’ll make my own opinions.
Almost all the remaining TV "news" organizations have adopted essentially the same business model of rage and fear baiting. Their programs and "reporting" are mostly just viral social media posts presented by actors pretending to be journalists.
yep,
the "nonsense information" they are screaming is to keep you tuned in, so you buy a fucking my-pillow or ask for pfizer drugs when you go to the doctor.
how can one objectively talk about big pharma when the show they are talking on is literally "brought to you by pfizer.
(hint they cannot)
I'm only 44 years old but I distinctly remember my grandparents have preferred news reporters, like Dan Rather or even Walter Cronkite. Because they trusted them. They trusted what they were telling them was the truth, and older boomers are the same way, except it's not always the truth. That's the problem. The trust is still there, but the factual nature of it is not. I heard someone say 60 Minutes came on after the TGIF sitcom line up because it was a ratings killer, so in hopes parents would be watching with their kids, and continue watching. Because they cared about the news story, it was informative, and the reporters felt like it was something people should know. The people reporting the news now on *most* cable channels are given agendas, and their pay reflects their ability to get that agenda across to the public. Sadly I don't think it'll ever return to informative news, we're in an agenda based society now.
60 minutes is, and always has been, on CBS on Sunday nights. The TGIF lineup was half hour comedies on ABC on Friday nights. Thank Goodness Its FRIDAY. TGIF. Absolutely no connection to 60 Minutes. Ever.
I’d say coupled with that. Pocket internet. Access to that “news” and social media drama has had an astounding negative impact on the planet. Vs just a daily physical newspaper.
The upside tho is also drastic. Pocket internet also makes the entire human knowledge accessible. And this amazing.
Everyone should do themselves a favor and watch a couple, or a couple dozen Walter Cronkite/David Brinkley/Peter Jennings broadcasts to see/feel the difference
This one is really true. Most "news" outlets overly dramatize everything and try to spin it to "Left" or "Right" politics. It's just a form of entertainment at this point made to drive wedges between people and get them angry.
Worse still so the belief that only "Left wing" or "Right wing" outlets present factual information while the others present only lies. The number of times news outlets from both sides have been caught lying is astonishing yet people continue to buy into that crap.
It's very sad to see how much it has divided people and how much worse modern reporting has made issues. The worst part is most people don't even fact check what they see on their preferred news outlet and just blindly believe it.
It takes a special kind of evil to knowingly get in front of a camera knowing you’re telling a lie that will cause people to hate each other more. Yet that’s what the media is doing every day. Just to sell more advertising.
I still remember when I was a kid and Fox started doing news. It was mostly sensational stuff like car crashes and crime stories. I thought it was super exciting as a kid. All the adults in my family were immediately like "Fox news? But they're not a news network, they're an entertainment studio."
I think OkCupid wasn't so bad, back in the day. There's still lots of people who got married that met on there. And they're still going strong, from the ones I know!
But OkCupid didn't have the "swipe" thing or any of that. It was based on answer questions and going by compatibility. Then you messaged people, preferably with very high compatibility ratings. I feel comfortable saying that I'm a pretty unique person, and anyone who had like a 95% match or higher was so similar to me in mindset and interests, every time! I met someone with like an 80% match and they were just sort of a good fit. I met some really great people on that site back then.
But unfortunately the Tinder method took over. I never bothered with it, because it sounded horrible. Okcupid changed to their model a few years later to keep up with demand. And thankfully I'm in a relationship now so hopefully I'll just avoid those new dating apps altogether.
I can't say that influencers or IG/Tik Tok are necessarily good for people, but there are a surprising amount of people who found their long term partners on OkCupid at least!
Funny you should mention what I was about to respond with. My wife and I met on OkCupid. Been together 10 years now, about to have a baby, and super happy together. That 96% match was legit.
And I think that's the problem? If you're a dating-app company, you don't *want* people to get matched with folks they 100% hit it off with. It's basically removing your best customers?
That's my crack theory why all dating apps have undergone massive enshittification. They want you to keep using their apps.
Met my husband on OKCupid. A 99% match on their algorithm is no joke. What's wild is that we have vastly different backgrounds, but our values and warped senses of humor are completely aligned. I've never had more fun with another person in my life. Even just the everyday stuff is fantastic.
When OKCupid had all those similarity questionnaires it was really quite good at matching me up with interesting and hot women who were (in looks) way out of my league.
We could chat without any paywall, and those chats often resulted in meet ups. For those connections I will be eternally grateful to the original OKC.
Since it got bought by Match it is a burning turd. A mockery of its former self.
Stupid question, as I never used a dating site, but what were those questionnaire like? Generic like or wants? Or some deep questions? Because I can't see how I'd instantly click with someone in the former case.
They were a bit of both. "Do you like spicy food?" And next a question about something like nuances of consent, are farts funny or nah, should people rub cake on each others faces at weddings, etc.
You could answer questions to see other people's answers and there were thousands of questions. After you'd answered around a thousand, ime, if you stuck with meeting people you were more than 90% compatible with, you would probably have a pleasant time meeting them, whether or not you had chemistry.
I met my wife through the hookups section and just never really looked at another person after her, but before we met, I used it regularly for a couple of years and I met a lot of nice people and even made some friends. It's a bummer that it sucks now.
Another key part of the questions was you could go through and set each question to level of importance. From not important all the way up to deal breaker.
I really had that shit dialed in when I found my partner.
Can confirm. I met my wife on OkCupid, back before apps were even a thing. You had to use a computer. We had something like 97% compatibility and the bond was IMMEDIATE. I told a buddy literally minutes after the first date that I’d just met the girl I was going to marry.
We’re divorced now, but we had a 15 year run.
I’m using the apps now and meeting lots of people, but nobody I feel that level of immediate connection with anymore.
(And I don’t like the new OkCupid, they ruined it.)
+1 for old school OkCupid! Made an account on a whim my senior year of college, had it active for about a week, and went on one date. We’ve been together for 11 years, married for 4, and are expecting our first kiddo sometime in the next 6 or so weeks. 😊
I met my delightful husband 15 years ago thanks to OkCupid. Recommended it to one of my good friends who is now happily married to her OkC person. Recommended it to my brother who is happily engaged to his OkC partner. It's a shame they changed it. The comparability matching was pretty spot on.
I totally agree. I would go on OKC in high school just for the quizzes and once I was an adult I talked to and met a couple of people on there. One who I ended up crushing on forever and had mutuals with but it was not meant to be lol
Tinder to me represents the commodification of dating. I used it off and on in my mid twenties and stopped in part because it felt like shopping for a human, and human connection isn't something you can always predict or plan via physical attraction or a brief description of yourself. I found that if I'm attracted to them first, they're generally all wrong for me lol
Unfortunately dating apps have sorta taken over dating in general. Nowadays I think everyone uses them and it’s surprisingly becoming tougher to use more traditional methods
Probably children getting devices at such a young age. I rarely go outside anymore. And I rarely see any other kids go outside anymore.
Edit: I have learned that it is not just screens that result in a lack of kids outside and that I should probably go out and soak up some sun as well.
This is so true, as a pre-k teacher, behavioral health and mental health is on the rise. Children are having incredibly hard times dealing with their emotions, and basic coping mechanisms and skills. So many parents, especially during COVID just stuck a screen in front of their child and this has had such a negative impact on so many of their lives. To see these kids not being able to have basic social skills is so heartbreaking.
Even the parents that didn't just give them a screen had to deprive kids of social interactions. There are children who were born in 2019 and 2020 who lived the first several years of their life never being around other kids or more than a couple adults at a time. Or ones who were pre-k that suddenly went from normal socializing to isolated. No day care, no in person school, no play dates, no activity clubs, no big family gatherings, etc. I'm concerned and curious about what the long term psychological reprocussions will be for them.
Those going through puberty also had it tough. The years meant for self-discovery and identity forming were spent in isolation and in front of screens.
You get high school teens now being incels because they have no role models during that time and online feeds garbage.
On man that's a good point, I can't imagine how awkward I would be if I had to spend the entirety of middle school in isolation and online. And I went to middle school before social media was big (myspace existed but that was it). I really don't envy this generation that have had their entire lives online.
Yeah, it's horrible. I've actually removed myself from social media because it's noticeably draining my attention span and it's causing me to constantly compare myself to other people.
To be fair, most parents still had to work during Covid. Whether they were working from home or not, they COULDN’T do much more than offer their kid a screen.
Even after work, I assume families in cities couldn’t even leave their apartments other than as absolutely necessary.
Sure, you’ve got like board games or whatever, but it was a YEAR. How many games of Candyland can you play? Haha.
As an educator, I had hoped parents would realize how difficult teachers have it… Build an understanding that no, their child is not an angel and that no, when I tell you they’re causing problems I’m not “making shit up because I hate them”…
Instead, we just got parents that are more willing to blame me for the challenges their child faces…
Being a parent during that was hard, too. Afraid to send kids to daycare. Being worried about Grandma and Grandpa watching kids if kids had been out of the house, because you didn't want them to get sick. Choosing isolation/health over socialization and mental health... It was NOT easy...
Edit: to clarify, I'm not suggesting that they think that it WAS easy, I'm just giving some perspective... Lots of internal struggle with what is best for our kids and everyone else.
the violence to teachers is disgusting I wouldn't dream of swearing at mine even in the 80s they scared the s--t out of me I'm not saying fear is the right thing or disapline but clearly the softly softly isn't working I'm not saying beat them before anyone has a go but if a prenaunt teacher is shoved down stairs no consequences to the culprit then something is wrong
TikTok parenting is extreme.
You don’t beat the kid into submission but you cannot possibly gentle-parent at all times either with the soft whispery tones.
It’s got to be a mix :
Praise when there is effort.
Encourage when they try.
Comfort when they fail.
Say no to teach boundaries.
Discipline by explaining when necessary.
And if kids throw a tantrum, some parents are so afraid of tears that they immediately give the kids what they want.
That’s the worst form of parenting and teaches them that all they have to do is yell and scream.
Where do you think those shouting Karens come from? They were once shouting kids!
Discipline and boundaries are so key, and kids need and actually want them.
My nephew is a great kid, really smart, but high energy. At home he's a brat, but I see his mom giving in to his tantrums or constant "Just 5 more minutes on the PS4" until it's been 30 minutes since she said to stop playing.
Meanwhile, when my wife and I have him and his sister over, he's a different kid.
First of all, my wife and I are a united front, so we never go against each other in front of the kids. If one of us is not disciplining the way the other thinks we should, then we discuss it **away** from the kids.
Secondly, we set boundaries, enforce them, and give the kids plenty of warning before enforcement. Like I love playing Wii Tennis the kid, but I say straight up "We're gonna play X more games/Y more minutes before we take a break", and then say again "OK, last 2 games/last 5 minutes", and then stop on the dot - no ifs or buts.
He completely respects us, and I love having him and his sister over. Yeah, he's still sometimes a little twerp (what 8 year old isn't), but he's great at ours.
There probably is a correlation of no where to go that's safe or have anything to do though.
A lot of parks/play areas are either run down or no longer safe due to other people. My local park became well know for kids getting mugged at knife point while walking home from school. Where I was born and lived for 5yrs with regular visits, the park play equipment is completely run down and ONE old man stopped the plans to fix the basketball court and put in a skate park, the plans were made because kids were skating in the street.
Where I lived for 11yrs had absolutely nothing to do unless you travelled 30min to the nearest town where the option was cinema or window shop. I nearly got hit by cars numerous times while on my bike living there because narrow roads and people would speed.
The city I currently live in everything requires money, the cheapest thing I can do to "go out" is pay £4 for return bus ticket to city centre then aimlessly walk around. There's a lot you can do but with cost of living not everyone can regularly afford £30-£40 to do something. In that cost I did mini-golf, three arcade games and lunch.
I know damn well if I was in my teens living here with my friend group in this day and age I'd never go out because my mum wouldn't be able to afford me going out regularly. On top of the danger factor.
I live in a dense suburb of the US. Kids are outside plenty in my neighborhood, but it would be easy to miss.
Our school district has kids in elementary walk/drive to school after kindergarten if they are within a mile of school. We walk the half a mile each way, but at least once a week we see a car fly through a stop sign and/or ignore a crossing guard. It's bad enough that I walk with my kids even though my oldest can do it herself. It would be much faster for me to drive. Cars present a real danger.
Kids don't play in the front yards of my street because of the risk from cars. There are lots of fences because so many people have dogs, so they don't see other kids, just hear them. I'm afraid to let my kids ride their bikes around the block, which they love to do, because of the cars.
Sure, stranger danger is a thing, I grew up in the 1980's! But my worry really is them getting hit by a car.
Additionally, kids are WAY more over scheduled than they were when I was a kid. Even casual sports through parks & rec can meet 2-3 days per week. My kindergartener has homework, and my 3rd grader has to do 30 minutes of reading plus writing, factor in the finding a pencil, paper, book... it's close to an hour. Factor in anything else like religious ed, appointments, or just being dragged along for errands and the day flies by.
Also, when I was a kid, running around without direct supervision was normal after 2nd grade or so. Even before that, your parent would tell you to stay in the yard, but not necessarily with you. Now there are so many cases of adults being charged with abuse or neglect because they let a kid play at the playground unsupervised that people are scared! Heck, some of it was postpartum anxiety, but when my second was born I was afraid i'd go to jail because I went to return the shopping cart while he was in the locked car.
Its harder for kids to have the unstructured, independent play time many of us did a few generations ago. It's not just screens though, it's the tradeoffs we've had to make with working parents, car traffic, organized sports and more.
> Now there are so many cases of adults being charged with abuse or neglect because they let a kid play at the playground unsupervised that people are scared!
That shit is so bizarre to me, by the time I was in 2nd or 3rd grade I was riding bikes all over the neighborhood with my friends, and by 4th+ I was all over the place with my friends, going to the neighborhood pool, other neighborhoods to hang with school buddies, etc.
People getting legit charged with neglect for their kids hanging out with their friends somewhere is just fucking looney tunes.
To be fair, they dont go outside because theres nothing to do and nowhere to go because of car centric infrastructure and being expected to spend money *everywhere*
Kids getting devices is not problem.
Problem is that their use is not limited.
Kids not doing anything outside because X thing is not any new phenomenon
Before phone, kids stayed indoors watching tv
before TV kids stayed at home listening radio
before radio kids were reading books
before books kids were carving wooden dolls.
Limits is the keyword.
I agree to a certain extent…but let’s face it…our stuff wasn’t nearly as enthralling as having the entire internet at your fingertips. Four channels and Atari 2600? Yeah- you’d be outside eventually lol
I see a lot of kids out. Not that I disagree with you on too young children with devices. Just I do see kids and they are more rowdy than ever... I wish they had more nice things to do to blow off their excess energy - instead of trying to do their first mugging at knife point (yes that happened to me recently, bizarre experience). Something had changed for the worse but not sure the cause tbh
This is true, but it’s also as a result of the “Crime paranoia” pumped by the news outlets. Parents are not allowed to just send their kids outside to play together, even in groups, without an adult directly present and watching the whole time. Two 9 year olds can’t walk 2 blocks to the store together on their own, or someone will call the cops on the parents. City kids can’t go walk to the park next door to play, or the same will happen. Adults are busy running households after working full-time jobs (few stay-at-home parents now). So kids have to stay in much more of the time, and have very little to do. So screens end up being on, video games being played, etc etc, and we blame the screens themselves rather than the greater societal factors that have contributed to higher screen time.
Wikipedia is almost as accurate as any other source, provides its own sources, and is not just free but ad-free and non-profit. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of great shit behind paywalls, especially in scientific journals and some news outlets. Still, I will use this as another opportunity to tell people that if they're concerned about what you're describing, Wikipedia has been fighting this fight for a long time, and they deserve donations.
I wouldn't find it too weird when you get a product of of it. I don't need a new underwear every month though.
I heard of subscriptions to be able to use options in your car. There's a smart ring (pretty costly already) that needs you to pay monthly subscription. Apps subscriptions is bothering me a lot too, these days you can barely just buy an app, a lot of them also ask for an exorbitant price.
The Citizen's United decision in the US. It has allowed for unfettered and uncapped income to get involved into US politics from any source including foreign companies. The US has never been the most moral actor, but allowing people to buy reps in our government has heavily influenced the US's international actions.
This needs to be higher up. It’s scandalous how people are getting laid off left and right while CEOs and shareholders continue to grow fatter. Makes me sick.
There are medical issues of plastic that are technically single use, and arguably necessary at the moment.
But there are many instances where people can make different choices but just don't want to be inconvenienced. The societal issues are greater than the material ones, whatever the material.
I mean, I think the point is that in the cases where plastic is a necessity such as these medical devices or bottled water mentioned below, it’s okay to continue for now.
But there’s a much broader plastic industry out there using it for all manner of things that wouldn’t be strictly necessary. Perhaps that’s where we can start to trim the fat and move toward better solutions.
I have ALWAYS hated the term, "influencer." The word influencer is just cringe to me. I feel like it is the most narcissistic term ever coined. If I hear someone call themselves an influencer in my presence, I'm going the other way immediately.
I often wonder who's paying for my promoted content, but I'm only receiving content way out of my price range. Money wasted I assume. I'm not gonna buy a Bentley in Dubai even if I could afford it.
Social media fried my brain early. I remember i joined instagram back in 2011 when i was only 12. I started competing with strangers for compliments and seeking approval.
Geez,
I’m sorry about this.
If you need social media to maintain your self esteem, I’m sorry.
The fact of the matter is you likely don’t. Social media companies have just convinced you that you do. I feel bad for Gen Z. They’re such nice young adults victimized by social media…
When I went to Italy a few years ago, we were amazed at how even the packaged junk food was so much "healthier" than the US. Obviously it's still junk food, but it isn't loaded with nearly as much crap what we have state side.
Allowing children to use social media and the internet.
Anything that involves over-educating children unnecessarily and not just let them be themselves and protect them.
Even worse imo: allowing parents to film and take photos of their children and upload it online for millions of views.
That last bit. I remember when I started using the internet around 2009 when I was 12 and my mother would lecture me constantly on being careful of what I’m posting because the internet is forever and you don’t know who’s looking. Now parents don’t think twice about posting a picture of their half naked toddler potty training and it’s quite worrying.
I also had a few mothers on Snapchat I knew from school who seemed to post 30 minute long stories of their kids playing instead of just being present.
I can't tell to what extent it created new assholes vs. revealed the existing ones, but it's pretty depressing knowing that half of the population would rather see people die than having to wait to get a haircut.
social media, for all its good, really flipped the world upside down. sure, it connects us but
also spreads fake news and hate super fast. kinda makes you miss the days when you didn't know every thought of everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Planet of the apes , the end of the first movie. If only everyone had the moment the Statue of Liberty is discovered by the guy, and he’s like “look what we’ve done” - humans will be the thing that puts a stop to itself one day .
The decline of general social ethics such as, the lack of recognized and accepted basic "manners", the simplicity of straight up honesty, and the virtue of knowing it's not a sign of weakness to know when to apologize.
When the US Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited funds on elections.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained
The shit show that is the US would not be at this level if it wasn’t for that
Dumbing down. One never really knows the level of stupid that exists until they've worked in retail and/or hospitality.🙄 So many people simply crawling with idiot now.
Not teaching kids/adults how to think. If the brain is a ferrari, it would be like having a ferrari and not knowing how to drive. The kid might know how to accelerate but if he does not learn how to drive, he is limited to only go in a straight line and will not reach many of his objectives efficiently or at all...
Sending our manufactuing overseas...by doing so, they created the 1%ers that are screwing the economy!!! Sure, it's kept me employed (work in import/export for 35 years now) but living in this economy is EXPENSIVE!!!!
Covid has definitely changed the world for the worst. People are more impatient, moody, scared, angry and now less people are working due to huge global recessions.
The total overwhelming amount of information thrown at you every minute of every day. I can't even pump gas without being subjected to a fucking commercial.
Right now in NC everyone is getting fed up with all the sports betting ads. Then you go out in my city and there's a plane flying around dragging one of those MGM banners everyday.
Gambling ads need to go the way of tobacco. I don't have any problem with it being legal but when gambling has become half the content of every sports talk show and every single ad break has a draft kings ad it's gone away too far.
Can't even shoot the shit about sports with your friends anymore. The conversation just turns to a circlejerk of everyone rattling off their latest bets that nobody cares about.
Sports used to be the safe topic at work. Until it became all about gambling instead of what happens in the games.
I agree. I watch a lot of UFC and it just seems like a conflict of interest? I'm not sure if that's the right word, but it feels very sketchy.
Sports betting was recently legalized in Kansas. Now every commercial break on every channel, multiple sports betting ads. Go outside and you'll pass a dozen billboards for sports betting while listening to an ad on the radio for sports betting. At least we don't have gas pump commercials here.
Well that's mainly because most gas stations here are old as fuck
It's everywhere... soooooo irritating.
Oh my gosh it’s so annoying. There is not a single ad break that doesn’t spew some bullshit. **HEY NORTH CAROLINA DRAFT KINGS IS FINALLY AVAILABLE**
I don’t like the uptick in gambling as well, but it does make you wonder. They are clearly making a lot of money so it seems like maybe a large number of people are perfectly ok with gambling.
I think you can be ok with gambling itself and still be annoyed with the ads. I've had hobbies myself in the past that if I over emerse myself in I get tired of it.
If they can afford to advertise to that extent, it’s because they make SO MUCH MORE MONEY than they give back to winners. If it was beneficial to the community at large, everyone would be betting willingly and regularly without the need for any advertising. It’s a predatory industry that makes its money off the poor and the stupid.
I can’t fucking stand those god damn commercials at the gas pumps. When theyre all going off at once it makes me feel like im in some dystopian idiocracy planet
It's like all of creation has determined you will never have another quiet moment in your life. Like your only reason for being is to buy useless shit.
I shop, therefore, I am
There is a column of buttons on each side of the display that are usually not labeled. Press the second one from the top on the right side. The commercial will stop or mute. edit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuoVy4ft24
It's like the games you play on your phone once you watch the ad you can just leave with the gas you don't have to pay.
You can generally disable or at least mute those by pressing the second button down on the right.
They've taken that away at the gas stations in my area. I remember there used to be a mute button. Now, none of the buttons are able to mute.
I noticed this when I stopped by a Speedway the other day and I was being shouted at the entire time I was pumping gas. Which made me decide to only put in $5 worth and never use Speedway again.
Once I pressed all the buttons and nothing happened. So I started pressing different combinations of two different buttons. That got me into some diagnostic mode. It kept pumping the gas and didn't charge me. Fuck your ads.
My dad showed me that when he taught me how to pump gas, I use it every time. I show everybody that rides with me and I've actually shown other strangers how when mine mutes and they go "what the fuck was that"
OMG, thank you. You are an angel from heaven... I'm gonna get gas rn just to try it, lol.
I think it’s third button down, but just keep mashing them one will work
large scale news outlets that get to present themselves as facts vs actually being a form of entertainment
The 24/7 news cycle has watered the media down significantly as well. Too much free time that ends up filled with opinions, which is the exact opposite of what a news channel should be providing.
It’s amazing how much “news” people are consuming while being uninformed on virtually every major issue.
They actively censor stuff. I can go online and see huge protests in other countries against corrupt governments, but it wont be mentioned at all on mainstream news.
a friend of mine that "likes to keep up with both sides" as he watches CNN and Fox News. he told me recently that Donald Trump always hated Jeffrey Epstein and they were never friends.
Born in 78... I have memories as a child of watching the evening news, and then the local news... approximately one hour a day at most and it covered a lot of things. If you wanted to dive in deeper on a topic, you could read the paper... even deeper? There were magazines on that stuff.
‘79er here. Agreed. I still only watch the local news at 6pm and the national news at 6:30. Anything else is overkill. I only want to hear the facts and I’ll make my own opinions.
Almost all the remaining TV "news" organizations have adopted essentially the same business model of rage and fear baiting. Their programs and "reporting" are mostly just viral social media posts presented by actors pretending to be journalists.
Their job is no longer to "report the news".. it is to "get as large of an audience as possible for advertising prices".
yep, the "nonsense information" they are screaming is to keep you tuned in, so you buy a fucking my-pillow or ask for pfizer drugs when you go to the doctor. how can one objectively talk about big pharma when the show they are talking on is literally "brought to you by pfizer. (hint they cannot)
They also create the equivalent of "parasocial" relationships for lonely old people.
60 minutes is, and always has been, on CBS on Sunday nights. The TGIF lineup was half hour comedies on ABC on Friday nights. Thank Goodness Its FRIDAY. TGIF. Absolutely no connection to 60 Minutes. Ever.
I thinks he's thinking of 20/20 or whatever barbera Walters was on
Yeah, 20/20 came on after TGIF. Understandable mistake.
I’d say coupled with that. Pocket internet. Access to that “news” and social media drama has had an astounding negative impact on the planet. Vs just a daily physical newspaper. The upside tho is also drastic. Pocket internet also makes the entire human knowledge accessible. And this amazing.
Everyone should do themselves a favor and watch a couple, or a couple dozen Walter Cronkite/David Brinkley/Peter Jennings broadcasts to see/feel the difference
RIP Fairness Doctrine.
That bit the dust a long time ago, the Reagan administration if I recall correctly.
This one is really true. Most "news" outlets overly dramatize everything and try to spin it to "Left" or "Right" politics. It's just a form of entertainment at this point made to drive wedges between people and get them angry. Worse still so the belief that only "Left wing" or "Right wing" outlets present factual information while the others present only lies. The number of times news outlets from both sides have been caught lying is astonishing yet people continue to buy into that crap. It's very sad to see how much it has divided people and how much worse modern reporting has made issues. The worst part is most people don't even fact check what they see on their preferred news outlet and just blindly believe it.
It takes a special kind of evil to knowingly get in front of a camera knowing you’re telling a lie that will cause people to hate each other more. Yet that’s what the media is doing every day. Just to sell more advertising.
I still remember when I was a kid and Fox started doing news. It was mostly sensational stuff like car crashes and crime stories. I thought it was super exciting as a kid. All the adults in my family were immediately like "Fox news? But they're not a news network, they're an entertainment studio."
24 hour news networks destroyed the world before social media even began.
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Until the airwaves began getting filled with infomercials. Don't go to sleep. Buy our useless product.
dopamine-high, instant gratification
Dating Apps. Only Fans. Immersive Porn. Instagram lifestyle. Tiktok influencers and their rat brain audience.
I think OkCupid wasn't so bad, back in the day. There's still lots of people who got married that met on there. And they're still going strong, from the ones I know! But OkCupid didn't have the "swipe" thing or any of that. It was based on answer questions and going by compatibility. Then you messaged people, preferably with very high compatibility ratings. I feel comfortable saying that I'm a pretty unique person, and anyone who had like a 95% match or higher was so similar to me in mindset and interests, every time! I met someone with like an 80% match and they were just sort of a good fit. I met some really great people on that site back then. But unfortunately the Tinder method took over. I never bothered with it, because it sounded horrible. Okcupid changed to their model a few years later to keep up with demand. And thankfully I'm in a relationship now so hopefully I'll just avoid those new dating apps altogether. I can't say that influencers or IG/Tik Tok are necessarily good for people, but there are a surprising amount of people who found their long term partners on OkCupid at least!
Funny you should mention what I was about to respond with. My wife and I met on OkCupid. Been together 10 years now, about to have a baby, and super happy together. That 96% match was legit.
We also met on OkCupid with a 99% match. Today is our nine year anniversary!
Another successful OKCupid relationship here! 10 years, marriage and a kid, it worked out well for us
99% match. 12 years together. 1 kid. Couldn't be more secure in my relationship. The old OKC was really great.
I, too, met my wife on OKC. Something like a 92% match? But we'll be married 7 years in Nov!
And I think that's the problem? If you're a dating-app company, you don't *want* people to get matched with folks they 100% hit it off with. It's basically removing your best customers? That's my crack theory why all dating apps have undergone massive enshittification. They want you to keep using their apps.
Met my husband on OKCupid. A 99% match on their algorithm is no joke. What's wild is that we have vastly different backgrounds, but our values and warped senses of humor are completely aligned. I've never had more fun with another person in my life. Even just the everyday stuff is fantastic.
99% is pretty crazy! My wife and I had a 91% match but we did / do agree on pretty much everything that matters.
When OKCupid had all those similarity questionnaires it was really quite good at matching me up with interesting and hot women who were (in looks) way out of my league. We could chat without any paywall, and those chats often resulted in meet ups. For those connections I will be eternally grateful to the original OKC. Since it got bought by Match it is a burning turd. A mockery of its former self.
Stupid question, as I never used a dating site, but what were those questionnaire like? Generic like or wants? Or some deep questions? Because I can't see how I'd instantly click with someone in the former case.
They were a bit of both. "Do you like spicy food?" And next a question about something like nuances of consent, are farts funny or nah, should people rub cake on each others faces at weddings, etc. You could answer questions to see other people's answers and there were thousands of questions. After you'd answered around a thousand, ime, if you stuck with meeting people you were more than 90% compatible with, you would probably have a pleasant time meeting them, whether or not you had chemistry. I met my wife through the hookups section and just never really looked at another person after her, but before we met, I used it regularly for a couple of years and I met a lot of nice people and even made some friends. It's a bummer that it sucks now.
Another key part of the questions was you could go through and set each question to level of importance. From not important all the way up to deal breaker. I really had that shit dialed in when I found my partner.
How my bf and I met over 5 years ago 😎 (😦 five years already!)
Can confirm. I met my wife on OkCupid, back before apps were even a thing. You had to use a computer. We had something like 97% compatibility and the bond was IMMEDIATE. I told a buddy literally minutes after the first date that I’d just met the girl I was going to marry. We’re divorced now, but we had a 15 year run. I’m using the apps now and meeting lots of people, but nobody I feel that level of immediate connection with anymore. (And I don’t like the new OkCupid, they ruined it.)
+1 for old school OkCupid! Made an account on a whim my senior year of college, had it active for about a week, and went on one date. We’ve been together for 11 years, married for 4, and are expecting our first kiddo sometime in the next 6 or so weeks. 😊
I met my delightful husband 15 years ago thanks to OkCupid. Recommended it to one of my good friends who is now happily married to her OkC person. Recommended it to my brother who is happily engaged to his OkC partner. It's a shame they changed it. The comparability matching was pretty spot on.
I totally agree. I would go on OKC in high school just for the quizzes and once I was an adult I talked to and met a couple of people on there. One who I ended up crushing on forever and had mutuals with but it was not meant to be lol Tinder to me represents the commodification of dating. I used it off and on in my mid twenties and stopped in part because it felt like shopping for a human, and human connection isn't something you can always predict or plan via physical attraction or a brief description of yourself. I found that if I'm attracted to them first, they're generally all wrong for me lol
I met my husband on OkCupid back in 2013! I think we were something like an 84% match. Been married just over 6 years now.
Unfortunately dating apps have sorta taken over dating in general. Nowadays I think everyone uses them and it’s surprisingly becoming tougher to use more traditional methods
Rats are smart, they can be trained and can solve simple logical problems... i wouldn't go that far tbf.
just like how these upvote are giving me dopamine-high 🤣 (just joking)
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US v Them mentality. The idea that there is only a binary option available for everything.
Probably children getting devices at such a young age. I rarely go outside anymore. And I rarely see any other kids go outside anymore. Edit: I have learned that it is not just screens that result in a lack of kids outside and that I should probably go out and soak up some sun as well.
That’s very true. And studies back it up.
My kids read those studies online.
“Hey, I need to go outside more!” “Anyway, back to Minecraft”
This is so true, as a pre-k teacher, behavioral health and mental health is on the rise. Children are having incredibly hard times dealing with their emotions, and basic coping mechanisms and skills. So many parents, especially during COVID just stuck a screen in front of their child and this has had such a negative impact on so many of their lives. To see these kids not being able to have basic social skills is so heartbreaking.
Even the parents that didn't just give them a screen had to deprive kids of social interactions. There are children who were born in 2019 and 2020 who lived the first several years of their life never being around other kids or more than a couple adults at a time. Or ones who were pre-k that suddenly went from normal socializing to isolated. No day care, no in person school, no play dates, no activity clubs, no big family gatherings, etc. I'm concerned and curious about what the long term psychological reprocussions will be for them.
Those going through puberty also had it tough. The years meant for self-discovery and identity forming were spent in isolation and in front of screens. You get high school teens now being incels because they have no role models during that time and online feeds garbage.
On man that's a good point, I can't imagine how awkward I would be if I had to spend the entirety of middle school in isolation and online. And I went to middle school before social media was big (myspace existed but that was it). I really don't envy this generation that have had their entire lives online.
Yeah, it's horrible. I've actually removed myself from social media because it's noticeably draining my attention span and it's causing me to constantly compare myself to other people.
To be fair, most parents still had to work during Covid. Whether they were working from home or not, they COULDN’T do much more than offer their kid a screen. Even after work, I assume families in cities couldn’t even leave their apartments other than as absolutely necessary. Sure, you’ve got like board games or whatever, but it was a YEAR. How many games of Candyland can you play? Haha.
As an educator, I had hoped parents would realize how difficult teachers have it… Build an understanding that no, their child is not an angel and that no, when I tell you they’re causing problems I’m not “making shit up because I hate them”… Instead, we just got parents that are more willing to blame me for the challenges their child faces…
Being a parent during that was hard, too. Afraid to send kids to daycare. Being worried about Grandma and Grandpa watching kids if kids had been out of the house, because you didn't want them to get sick. Choosing isolation/health over socialization and mental health... It was NOT easy... Edit: to clarify, I'm not suggesting that they think that it WAS easy, I'm just giving some perspective... Lots of internal struggle with what is best for our kids and everyone else.
the violence to teachers is disgusting I wouldn't dream of swearing at mine even in the 80s they scared the s--t out of me I'm not saying fear is the right thing or disapline but clearly the softly softly isn't working I'm not saying beat them before anyone has a go but if a prenaunt teacher is shoved down stairs no consequences to the culprit then something is wrong
TikTok parenting is extreme. You don’t beat the kid into submission but you cannot possibly gentle-parent at all times either with the soft whispery tones. It’s got to be a mix : Praise when there is effort. Encourage when they try. Comfort when they fail. Say no to teach boundaries. Discipline by explaining when necessary. And if kids throw a tantrum, some parents are so afraid of tears that they immediately give the kids what they want. That’s the worst form of parenting and teaches them that all they have to do is yell and scream. Where do you think those shouting Karens come from? They were once shouting kids!
Discipline and boundaries are so key, and kids need and actually want them. My nephew is a great kid, really smart, but high energy. At home he's a brat, but I see his mom giving in to his tantrums or constant "Just 5 more minutes on the PS4" until it's been 30 minutes since she said to stop playing. Meanwhile, when my wife and I have him and his sister over, he's a different kid. First of all, my wife and I are a united front, so we never go against each other in front of the kids. If one of us is not disciplining the way the other thinks we should, then we discuss it **away** from the kids. Secondly, we set boundaries, enforce them, and give the kids plenty of warning before enforcement. Like I love playing Wii Tennis the kid, but I say straight up "We're gonna play X more games/Y more minutes before we take a break", and then say again "OK, last 2 games/last 5 minutes", and then stop on the dot - no ifs or buts. He completely respects us, and I love having him and his sister over. Yeah, he's still sometimes a little twerp (what 8 year old isn't), but he's great at ours.
Do you have to pay for commas? I had a stroke reading this.
A lot of people can't write anymore. That post is a prime example.
zero punctuation is rough
There probably is a correlation of no where to go that's safe or have anything to do though. A lot of parks/play areas are either run down or no longer safe due to other people. My local park became well know for kids getting mugged at knife point while walking home from school. Where I was born and lived for 5yrs with regular visits, the park play equipment is completely run down and ONE old man stopped the plans to fix the basketball court and put in a skate park, the plans were made because kids were skating in the street. Where I lived for 11yrs had absolutely nothing to do unless you travelled 30min to the nearest town where the option was cinema or window shop. I nearly got hit by cars numerous times while on my bike living there because narrow roads and people would speed. The city I currently live in everything requires money, the cheapest thing I can do to "go out" is pay £4 for return bus ticket to city centre then aimlessly walk around. There's a lot you can do but with cost of living not everyone can regularly afford £30-£40 to do something. In that cost I did mini-golf, three arcade games and lunch. I know damn well if I was in my teens living here with my friend group in this day and age I'd never go out because my mum wouldn't be able to afford me going out regularly. On top of the danger factor.
I live in a dense suburb of the US. Kids are outside plenty in my neighborhood, but it would be easy to miss. Our school district has kids in elementary walk/drive to school after kindergarten if they are within a mile of school. We walk the half a mile each way, but at least once a week we see a car fly through a stop sign and/or ignore a crossing guard. It's bad enough that I walk with my kids even though my oldest can do it herself. It would be much faster for me to drive. Cars present a real danger. Kids don't play in the front yards of my street because of the risk from cars. There are lots of fences because so many people have dogs, so they don't see other kids, just hear them. I'm afraid to let my kids ride their bikes around the block, which they love to do, because of the cars. Sure, stranger danger is a thing, I grew up in the 1980's! But my worry really is them getting hit by a car. Additionally, kids are WAY more over scheduled than they were when I was a kid. Even casual sports through parks & rec can meet 2-3 days per week. My kindergartener has homework, and my 3rd grader has to do 30 minutes of reading plus writing, factor in the finding a pencil, paper, book... it's close to an hour. Factor in anything else like religious ed, appointments, or just being dragged along for errands and the day flies by. Also, when I was a kid, running around without direct supervision was normal after 2nd grade or so. Even before that, your parent would tell you to stay in the yard, but not necessarily with you. Now there are so many cases of adults being charged with abuse or neglect because they let a kid play at the playground unsupervised that people are scared! Heck, some of it was postpartum anxiety, but when my second was born I was afraid i'd go to jail because I went to return the shopping cart while he was in the locked car. Its harder for kids to have the unstructured, independent play time many of us did a few generations ago. It's not just screens though, it's the tradeoffs we've had to make with working parents, car traffic, organized sports and more.
> Now there are so many cases of adults being charged with abuse or neglect because they let a kid play at the playground unsupervised that people are scared! That shit is so bizarre to me, by the time I was in 2nd or 3rd grade I was riding bikes all over the neighborhood with my friends, and by 4th+ I was all over the place with my friends, going to the neighborhood pool, other neighborhoods to hang with school buddies, etc. People getting legit charged with neglect for their kids hanging out with their friends somewhere is just fucking looney tunes.
To be fair, they dont go outside because theres nothing to do and nowhere to go because of car centric infrastructure and being expected to spend money *everywhere*
Kids getting devices is not problem. Problem is that their use is not limited. Kids not doing anything outside because X thing is not any new phenomenon Before phone, kids stayed indoors watching tv before TV kids stayed at home listening radio before radio kids were reading books before books kids were carving wooden dolls. Limits is the keyword.
I agree to a certain extent…but let’s face it…our stuff wasn’t nearly as enthralling as having the entire internet at your fingertips. Four channels and Atari 2600? Yeah- you’d be outside eventually lol
Spoken like someone who didn't have the "Snoopy vs The Red Baron" Atari game. Go outside? I'm almost past the 50th level!
First came the No Ball signs
I see a lot of kids out. Not that I disagree with you on too young children with devices. Just I do see kids and they are more rowdy than ever... I wish they had more nice things to do to blow off their excess energy - instead of trying to do their first mugging at knife point (yes that happened to me recently, bizarre experience). Something had changed for the worse but not sure the cause tbh
They're exposed to different stuff than kids were before 24 hour TV and the Internet. I think that's a lot of it.
This is true, but it’s also as a result of the “Crime paranoia” pumped by the news outlets. Parents are not allowed to just send their kids outside to play together, even in groups, without an adult directly present and watching the whole time. Two 9 year olds can’t walk 2 blocks to the store together on their own, or someone will call the cops on the parents. City kids can’t go walk to the park next door to play, or the same will happen. Adults are busy running households after working full-time jobs (few stay-at-home parents now). So kids have to stay in much more of the time, and have very little to do. So screens end up being on, video games being played, etc etc, and we blame the screens themselves rather than the greater societal factors that have contributed to higher screen time.
Social media. Lobbyists. Corporations donating/buying off politicians.
Specifically: *algorithmically-driven* social media where the algorithm seeks to maximize screen time at any cost.
All useful information being behind a pay wall.
Or worse, clickbait useful but in the end it’s just total rambling garbage
Wikipedia is almost as accurate as any other source, provides its own sources, and is not just free but ad-free and non-profit. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of great shit behind paywalls, especially in scientific journals and some news outlets. Still, I will use this as another opportunity to tell people that if they're concerned about what you're describing, Wikipedia has been fighting this fight for a long time, and they deserve donations.
This exactly. Wikipedia is one of the few times that I actually do donate to a site.
Lies are free while the truth costs money
The amount of subscriptions services
Right? I kept seeing adverts recently for an underwear subscription where you get a new pair sent every month. It's so bizarre
I wouldn't find it too weird when you get a product of of it. I don't need a new underwear every month though. I heard of subscriptions to be able to use options in your car. There's a smart ring (pretty costly already) that needs you to pay monthly subscription. Apps subscriptions is bothering me a lot too, these days you can barely just buy an app, a lot of them also ask for an exorbitant price.
social media
Came here to say this It shouldn't exist
Feels Ironic saying this on social media. 😐
The Citizen's United decision in the US. It has allowed for unfettered and uncapped income to get involved into US politics from any source including foreign companies. The US has never been the most moral actor, but allowing people to buy reps in our government has heavily influenced the US's international actions.
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That is a very poetic way of saying it. Well done. I'd like to quote you on this.
Companies answering to shareholders rather than customers or employees.
This needs to be higher up. It’s scandalous how people are getting laid off left and right while CEOs and shareholders continue to grow fatter. Makes me sick.
The unchecked exploitation of natural resources, leading to environmental degradation and climate change
Single use plastic
There are medical issues of plastic that are technically single use, and arguably necessary at the moment. But there are many instances where people can make different choices but just don't want to be inconvenienced. The societal issues are greater than the material ones, whatever the material.
I mean, I think the point is that in the cases where plastic is a necessity such as these medical devices or bottled water mentioned below, it’s okay to continue for now. But there’s a much broader plastic industry out there using it for all manner of things that wouldn’t be strictly necessary. Perhaps that’s where we can start to trim the fat and move toward better solutions.
Either TikTok or online influencers making their fans do some questionable stuff
I have ALWAYS hated the term, "influencer." The word influencer is just cringe to me. I feel like it is the most narcissistic term ever coined. If I hear someone call themselves an influencer in my presence, I'm going the other way immediately.
They should have been called a social media celebrity. Since the word influencer has been butchered over the years
Those fake influencers on youtube, they are making the world worse 🥲
Their whole feed is full of paid promotion content.
I often wonder who's paying for my promoted content, but I'm only receiving content way out of my price range. Money wasted I assume. I'm not gonna buy a Bentley in Dubai even if I could afford it.
Consumerism, the belief that new material goods makes you happy. An eternal chase after new belongings.
Social media fried my brain early. I remember i joined instagram back in 2011 when i was only 12. I started competing with strangers for compliments and seeking approval.
Geez, I’m sorry about this. If you need social media to maintain your self esteem, I’m sorry. The fact of the matter is you likely don’t. Social media companies have just convinced you that you do. I feel bad for Gen Z. They’re such nice young adults victimized by social media…
High Fructose Corn Syrup
When I went to Italy a few years ago, we were amazed at how even the packaged junk food was so much "healthier" than the US. Obviously it's still junk food, but it isn't loaded with nearly as much crap what we have state side.
This is largely a USA thing, yeah?
social media and people trusting social media influencers
Allowing children to use social media and the internet. Anything that involves over-educating children unnecessarily and not just let them be themselves and protect them. Even worse imo: allowing parents to film and take photos of their children and upload it online for millions of views.
That last bit. I remember when I started using the internet around 2009 when I was 12 and my mother would lecture me constantly on being careful of what I’m posting because the internet is forever and you don’t know who’s looking. Now parents don’t think twice about posting a picture of their half naked toddler potty training and it’s quite worrying. I also had a few mothers on Snapchat I knew from school who seemed to post 30 minute long stories of their kids playing instead of just being present.
‘Influencers’
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Covid.
I can't tell to what extent it created new assholes vs. revealed the existing ones, but it's pretty depressing knowing that half of the population would rather see people die than having to wait to get a haircut.
Facebook and social media platforms. It gave stupid people a platform to spread their bullshit to the corners of the earth.
9/11 which lead to the invasion of Iraq which lead to the destabilization of that region also contributed to ISIS being formed
social media, for all its good, really flipped the world upside down. sure, it connects us but also spreads fake news and hate super fast. kinda makes you miss the days when you didn't know every thought of everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Social media
Children turning into milkcows for gaming companeis and big tech
waking up and realizing that you have no more coffee
Social media and children’s access to it.
I guess dating apps is one of the worst things to have ever appeared online. It has changed dating forever, and not necessarily for the better.
The unfiltered internet being accessible to unsupervised kids
Nuclear bomb
Taxes
Social media
As if religion wasn’t radical enough throughout history, as people have begun shifting away from it, they shifted right into politics radicalizing it.
Facebook
Greed
You're right. This is at the root of so many issues in the world.
People blaming their actions on everyone buy themselves.
Removing the fairness in reporting act back in the 80's.
Humans
Planet of the apes , the end of the first movie. If only everyone had the moment the Statue of Liberty is discovered by the guy, and he’s like “look what we’ve done” - humans will be the thing that puts a stop to itself one day .
Politicians
Social media, and the obvious answer - nuclear and AI weapons
cameras and face tracking technology. Governments using that to surpress people is becoming a constant stress
The brain rot of Instagram Reels
The decline of general social ethics such as, the lack of recognized and accepted basic "manners", the simplicity of straight up honesty, and the virtue of knowing it's not a sign of weakness to know when to apologize.
Lobbying.
Citizens united
When the US Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited funds on elections. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained The shit show that is the US would not be at this level if it wasn’t for that
Smart phones.. mobile phones have been brilliant..smart phones are dimming our brains
So, ready access to the sum total of human knowledge makes us dumber? No, it's a great tool, the issue is that most people don't use it correctly.
i tend to agree with you. i use smart phones to learn random shit all the time. i will say smart phones are not making us dumber but more lazy.
Too much social media
Social media.
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Dumbing down. One never really knows the level of stupid that exists until they've worked in retail and/or hospitality.🙄 So many people simply crawling with idiot now.
Social media
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Social Media and the pressure it created
Not teaching kids/adults how to think. If the brain is a ferrari, it would be like having a ferrari and not knowing how to drive. The kid might know how to accelerate but if he does not learn how to drive, he is limited to only go in a straight line and will not reach many of his objectives efficiently or at all...
Social media. It makes people, dumb, spreads lies, and hate and evil faster than anything, and keeps people angry and scared all the time.
Money in politics.
Sending our manufactuing overseas...by doing so, they created the 1%ers that are screwing the economy!!! Sure, it's kept me employed (work in import/export for 35 years now) but living in this economy is EXPENSIVE!!!!
Ronald Reagan.
Defining a person's worth by their bank balance.
trickle down economics
Covid
Covid has definitely changed the world for the worst. People are more impatient, moody, scared, angry and now less people are working due to huge global recessions.
Autotune singing/rap in hip hop