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Given how badly scrolling has cooked the brain of the average American, seems like a smart thing for the EU to ban.
by OGEnthusiast 8mo ago
Given how badly scrolling has cooked the brain of the average American, seems like a smart thing for the EU to ban.
- manuelmoreale 8mo agoAnd based on some of the replies in this thread we better act fast before it's too late.
- breezykoi 8mo agoReading some comments I don’t know whether some use fallacious arguments deliberately or are simply incapable of logical reasoning.
- Aerbil313 8mo agoIt's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. Way too many working in/adjacent to the advertising or the doomscrolling industry here.
- Aerbil313 8mo agoI don't use any social media (except HN ~once a week) and every time I suggest a person they try stopping social media it's either a quiet "Yeah I know it's not good but I can't stop" or defending the "fun" and supposed virtues of doomscrolling with great fervor. I think it's this latter camp of people. It triggers them as if you threatened to take away his candy from a child.
- KolibriFly 8mo agoI get the frustration behind that sentiment, but I'm not convinced it's as simple as "scrolling cooked brains"