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Today’s generations just do not get a break. Brain rot in the form of social media. Cognitive decline from possible long COVID. Constant exposure to microplast

by xyst 2y ago

Today’s generations just do not get a break. Brain rot in the form of social media. Cognitive decline from possible long COVID. Constant exposure to microplastics from various sources (water contamination, water bottles, plastic wrapping, cars via tire breakdown). This timeline fucking sucks.

causality0 2y ago
It feels like a Black Mirror episode. A bunch of things shaving little slivers off our intelligence until we're too stupid to save ourselves.
- hypertele-Xii 2y ago
  Or a passage from the holy Bible. The wisdom of the wise men will perish. Isaiah 29:14 For it is written: "I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectuals I will reject." 1. Corinthians 1:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written: "He catches the wise in their own cunning." 1. Corinthians 3:19 The wise have been put to shame. They have become terrified and will be caught. Look! They have rejected the word of Jehovah, And what wisdom do they have? Jeremiah 8:9
  - itsanaccount 2y ago
    your book doesn't have a single bit of insight into cell cultures, microscopy, viral interactions, immune responses or anything else we've figured out in the last few centuries. its ridiculous to use such a thing to degrade modern intellectual persuit. please keep your 1st century book of wooly mumblings in the tax free echo chambers where it belongs, adults are talking.
    - hypertele-Xii 2y ago
      Keep feeding that Pride demon. Albert Einstein believed in God. Who are you to talk down to Einstein?
  - salawat 2y ago
    Isaiah, being Old Testament, is more about the defense of Jerusalem, and given even in the most literal interpretation, Israelis are as screwed as anyone else, I'll say some serious verse/context cherrypicking is going on here. Corinthians, in the New Testament, as far as it is relevant has a better standing, coming from the standpoint of illustrating that Wisdom as it is to the Almighty looks entirely different to Wisdom according to mortals, for things happen in Eternity, that a population of transient mortals may not see or recall for generations. At best though, the scripture isn't indicating this is God's active intent/doing, but taken at face value Human Wisdom != God's Wisdom. Not necessarily useful on our timescales except as a reminder that things can happen that can completely turn established order on it's head, nothing is set in stone and impossible to see change, and that in those Times, it is important to remember we are not perfect, and to meet the adversity in question with humility, and a courage underpinned by faith. Regardless of the particulars of your faith, it isn't terrible advice or Scripture. Certainly more timeless than the Isaiah verse. 3:19 is much the same schtick. Props for casting where angels fear to tread. It will largely land on deaf/unprepared/unwilling ears however. Then again, you got me to actually look at the book, so you might consider that a win I suppose. Given the room, don't be surprised if there is a poor reception.
    - causality0 2y ago
      Isn't everything set in stone from God's perspective? He knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. Including his own actions, presumably, so he's more of an omnipotent record-player than an intelligent being that makes decisions.
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ljm 2y ago
On the plus side, we don’t need to worry about spending our lives in an iron lung, smallpox is a non-issue, and in most of the west there isn’t much of a concern about a mother dying giving birth. Hot water can be taken for granted, as can indoor toilets. And central heating. With modern electronics and circuitry you can’t even kill yourself with a toaster in the bathtub since it will trip the central breaker. Every generation goes through the same shit in one version or another.
- addicted 2y ago
  All of this has been true for over half a century. The problem is that the direction of improvement in lives has changed. Compare today to the 90s and there’s very little reason to believe that today is better than the 90s in a developed country. What’s frustrating is that we have MORE tools to be in a much better shape right now. We have things available to us today that people wouldn’t have dreamt of in the 90s, including smartphones. But unfortunately, those tools are being used almost entirely for the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few and for disinforming and misleading people to accelerate the concentration of wealth.
  - soared 2y ago
    Less war though, at least for those in most of the developed world.
  - wilsonnb3 2y ago
    Safer and more reliable cars, cancer is less deadly, the HPV vaccine, malaria vsccines, lower homicide rate, I could go on but this seems like a good list. Be careful where you get your data - news is biased towards sensationalism and negativity.
    - mitthrowaway2 2y ago
      Cars are getting increasingly dangerous for non-occupants, unfortunately. But certainly AIDS is in a much better situation than it was in the '90s.
  - 2y ago
jajko 2y ago
Step back, go to some exotic places for few weeks, mingle with locals and stay the hell away from any form of luxury. There is immense beauty in this world, if you care to look for it. But for sure if you focus yourself on all the negative since its so juicy it will easily drag you down the pit of despair. At any point of time in mankind's history there was plenty of bad stuff happening, often cataclysmic compared to our times.
roenxi 2y ago
That view appears to discount just how horrible past generations had it. People living before around 1970 would have been in clover to have just those problems. Pick a decade in the past and it was generally pretty horrible.
- andrekandre 2y ago
  > would have been in clover to have just those problems off-topic but this is the first time i've seen the idiom "in clover" before and had to look it up... interesting [1] https://grammarist.com/idiom/in-clover/ https://grammarist.com/idiom/in-clover/
ikmckenz 2y ago
Yeah, nah, all that is better than drinking water with lead in it from uranium glass.
kjkjadksj 2y ago
When have people ever gotten a break? At least you make it into old age without good odds of getting an axe put through your head before that like most of human history.
llm_trw 2y ago
>Prior to 1910, for every 1,000 babies born in the United States, 165 died before their first birthday (Newmayer 1911). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2011-005.pdf https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2011-005.pdf Today it is at 5 per 1,000. Please read a history book before you start supporting a reset to what we used to have.
- hypertele-Xii 2y ago
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tim333 2y ago
On the other hand, singularity type stuff.

by xyst 2y ago

causality0 2y ago

It feels like a Black Mirror episode. A bunch of things shaving little slivers off our intelligence until we're too stupid to save ourselves.

hypertele-Xii 2y ago
Or a passage from the holy Bible. The wisdom of the wise men will perish. Isaiah 29:14 For it is written: "I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectuals I will reject." 1. Corinthians 1:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written: "He catches the wise in their own cunning." 1. Corinthians 3:19 The wise have been put to shame. They have become terrified and will be caught. Look! They have rejected the word of Jehovah, And what wisdom do they have? Jeremiah 8:9
- itsanaccount 2y ago
  your book doesn't have a single bit of insight into cell cultures, microscopy, viral interactions, immune responses or anything else we've figured out in the last few centuries. its ridiculous to use such a thing to degrade modern intellectual persuit. please keep your 1st century book of wooly mumblings in the tax free echo chambers where it belongs, adults are talking.
  - hypertele-Xii 2y ago
    Keep feeding that Pride demon. Albert Einstein believed in God. Who are you to talk down to Einstein?
- salawat 2y ago
  Isaiah, being Old Testament, is more about the defense of Jerusalem, and given even in the most literal interpretation, Israelis are as screwed as anyone else, I'll say some serious verse/context cherrypicking is going on here. Corinthians, in the New Testament, as far as it is relevant has a better standing, coming from the standpoint of illustrating that Wisdom as it is to the Almighty looks entirely different to Wisdom according to mortals, for things happen in Eternity, that a population of transient mortals may not see or recall for generations. At best though, the scripture isn't indicating this is God's active intent/doing, but taken at face value Human Wisdom != God's Wisdom. Not necessarily useful on our timescales except as a reminder that things can happen that can completely turn established order on it's head, nothing is set in stone and impossible to see change, and that in those Times, it is important to remember we are not perfect, and to meet the adversity in question with humility, and a courage underpinned by faith. Regardless of the particulars of your faith, it isn't terrible advice or Scripture. Certainly more timeless than the Isaiah verse. 3:19 is much the same schtick. Props for casting where angels fear to tread. It will largely land on deaf/unprepared/unwilling ears however. Then again, you got me to actually look at the book, so you might consider that a win I suppose. Given the room, don't be surprised if there is a poor reception.
  - causality0 2y ago
    Isn't everything set in stone from God's perspective? He knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. Including his own actions, presumably, so he's more of an omnipotent record-player than an intelligent being that makes decisions.
    - deleted 2y ago
      [deleted]

ljm 2y ago

On the plus side, we don’t need to worry about spending our lives in an iron lung, smallpox is a non-issue, and in most of the west there isn’t much of a concern about a mother dying giving birth. Hot water can be taken for granted, as can indoor toilets. And central heating. With modern electronics and circuitry you can’t even kill yourself with a toaster in the bathtub since it will trip the central breaker. Every generation goes through the same shit in one version or another.

addicted 2y ago
All of this has been true for over half a century. The problem is that the direction of improvement in lives has changed. Compare today to the 90s and there’s very little reason to believe that today is better than the 90s in a developed country. What’s frustrating is that we have MORE tools to be in a much better shape right now. We have things available to us today that people wouldn’t have dreamt of in the 90s, including smartphones. But unfortunately, those tools are being used almost entirely for the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few and for disinforming and misleading people to accelerate the concentration of wealth.
- soared 2y ago
  Less war though, at least for those in most of the developed world.
- wilsonnb3 2y ago
  Safer and more reliable cars, cancer is less deadly, the HPV vaccine, malaria vsccines, lower homicide rate, I could go on but this seems like a good list. Be careful where you get your data - news is biased towards sensationalism and negativity.
  - mitthrowaway2 2y ago
    Cars are getting increasingly dangerous for non-occupants, unfortunately. But certainly AIDS is in a much better situation than it was in the '90s.
- 2y ago

jajko 2y ago

Step back, go to some exotic places for few weeks, mingle with locals and stay the hell away from any form of luxury. There is immense beauty in this world, if you care to look for it. But for sure if you focus yourself on all the negative since its so juicy it will easily drag you down the pit of despair. At any point of time in mankind's history there was plenty of bad stuff happening, often cataclysmic compared to our times.

roenxi 2y ago

That view appears to discount just how horrible past generations had it. People living before around 1970 would have been in clover to have just those problems. Pick a decade in the past and it was generally pretty horrible.

andrekandre 2y ago
> would have been in clover to have just those problems off-topic but this is the first time i've seen the idiom "in clover" before and had to look it up... interesting [1] https://grammarist.com/idiom/in-clover/ https://grammarist.com/idiom/in-clover/

ikmckenz 2y ago

Yeah, nah, all that is better than drinking water with lead in it from uranium glass.

kjkjadksj 2y ago

When have people ever gotten a break? At least you make it into old age without good odds of getting an axe put through your head before that like most of human history.

llm_trw 2y ago

>Prior to 1910, for every 1,000 babies born in the United States, 165 died before their first birthday (Newmayer 1911). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2011-005.pdf https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2011-005.pdf Today it is at 5 per 1,000. Please read a history book before you start supporting a reset to what we used to have.

hypertele-Xii 2y ago
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tim333 2y ago

On the other hand, singularity type stuff.