Originally Posted by Hastings
Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by Hastings
Is this different from the previous generations? There's always been a lot of crazies. Something called a nervous breakdown was fairly common back in the 1800s and 1900s.
Yes, it's different. Huge acceleration since 2008, the year the I-phone was introduced.

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Praise the Lord. I only have a flip phone, a Kyocera brand. All I know how to do is call, text, and take pictures. That way at least I'm weaned from the internet when I walk out the door.

Makes me able to hold on to a little reality and stay off anti-depressants.

Social media, dating apps, conspiracy sites. Those are the big things people need to limit.

Twitter's a toxic cesspool. I did some sentiment analysis on it and even just the normal background sentiment when nothing controversial being discussed is net negative.

You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

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