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Seriously, lol.

The two republicans mentioned in the article are for sure the two heads of that vomiting earthworm in the pic. The coffee analogy guy being the one vomiting his drivel of lead addled brainrot into an elementary school level take on broadband data caps and general economic theory.

Dafuq?

This is a great post. Additionally, if the exploitation isn’t occurring in a ramp up of costs to use basic functions of the service, it’s definitely occurring somewhere else and likely at the expense of your privacy.

Agreed as to Walgreens. Walgreens has surprised me with their photo and printing options. They are also located in the burbs, so that is nice.

Yeah lol I’ve been a fan since then, for sure. She’s a badass.

Isn’t this the start of a Pierce Brosnan Bond movie? The one with Michelle Yeoh lol

Are you me?

“They’re just wrestling, Timmy.”

Love ol’ Jim. My stepdad and I caught him for his 2014 tour and it’s been one of the highlights of both our live entertainment experiences lol that and seeing Rush in 2012.

Edit: “live” entertainment lol… Gotta love mobile.

Only past a certain age, though lol. I was definitely a Toys R Us kid, so I’m pretty sure I’m out of luck.

Not great, not terrible…

I’d be dead by the time lunch rolls around at work.

Nice! Yeah, it’s mostly Greek and Roman, but it has the main points of Norse mythology near the end.

It’s been one of my “if there’s a natural disaster, what do you grab” books for years lol

Neil Gaiman is a wonderful narrator, too.

If you’re into mythology, generally, I recommend “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton. The audiobook is great, too. I read and reread that so many times between middle school and my classics courses in college.

Eventually picked up the audiobook read by Suzanne Toren. I’m pretty sure it’s the most recent one available through audible and I liked her narration.

Edit: Suzanne Toren*

Omitted the “n” as I’m on mobile.

You’re right. Not with the finger just by itself, but in support of the other fingers, I meant.

Should have been more clear with what I was envisioning lol sorry.

Edit: I guess that also depends on which finger it is. Like your ring finger lost at the second knuckle could probably still help support grasping, but idk about the pinky lol.

“If taking the top of my finger was the price I had to pay, that’s what I would do.”

That decision also depends on which knuckle it needed to be amputated past. This quote makes me think it’s just amputating from the top knuckle up, which is really just your fingernail. You still keep a lot of use out of the finger in that case.

Edit: Even if it’s the second knuckle and up, you’d still have a solid amount of grasping utility with that finger.

This is my main issue with this type of journalism as well. The one author of the paper comes off as flippantly myopic and that’s partially due to the way the article itself is written. If dude doesn’t have a really informed view of the underlying causes of the data being observed, don’t just throw some dumb quote he pulled out of his ass into the article lol.

It’s increasingly difficult to find articles that pose deeply thought out questions and analyses when every writer is pressured to produce something that satisfied their editors’ want for a story with a quick answer that doesn’t rock the boat or upset shareholders.

• Ted Kaczinsky (The Unabomber)

Absolutely. I totally agree that social media is a manipulative lens based on those engagement algorithms. I definitely see that as having amplified these issues (and in many cases, misrepresented and confused, as you said, which also drives despair and conflict).

I also didn’t mean to sound extremely dour in the first place, there are, of course, some aspects of society and progress worth celebrating, and I’m not particularly unhappy, so much as worried for others, myself.

The reality and perception of existential threats like climate change, violence, and exploitation is no doubt amplified by the lens of social media, but I would argue that those pressures would still be felt, regardless of that amplification, leading me to see them as the root causes.

I also agree that social media in general is another root cause, but argue that just throwing that out there as “the” root cause, as Bellflower does in his quote, is reductive and looks out of touch.

Lol this dude sounds super out of touch. There are a whole lot of societal and economic factors around the '00s and '10s that are likely contributing.

Fuggin’ “cellphones” sounds like a typical boomer answer.

Also, there is likely some lag time between a population’s perception of traumatic or disturbing events and the onset of despair. I know that learning more about the financial crises around the late '00s did not help my mental health and only really occurred some time after in the mid '10s as people had time to analyze the root causes of these issues.

The continual deathmarch of climate change, growing awareness of the exploitation of the working class, and the reactionary violence and hate bred by right wing fanatics and politicians which surged beginning in the early '10s are all contenders for massive, culturally debilitating, trends. Lol “cellphones”.

Smart phones and social media are obviously amplifiers of these issues and are part of the problem, but the quote is remarkably reductive and does not address the root cause of what makes the information communicated through cell phones and social media so disheartening. Maybe we are given poor context for the quote and maybe it was something Blanchflower said in passing during the interview, but, still, not a good look.