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5 hours agoExcept in this case unfortunately the most cowardly thing for Trump to do in his position is go to war with Iran.
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I mean it sounds like all the pieces are in place. So WTF is Trump waiting for?
The end of the Winter Olympics, can’t be fighting that for ratings.
Separately, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN said that the Security Cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday to discuss developments in Iran has been rescheduled for Sunday, without providing any additional details.
To be fair no one has given Trump a medal and all everyone is talking about this week is people getting medals, and Gold Medals too which are Trump’s favorite so maybe don’t be so insensitive.
How many Nobel Peace Prizes do you hold hostage? I bet it is less than Trump so maybe cool your jets and give Trump a chance to work his magic and create more peace!
You have to crack a couple of eggs to make a peace pie.
Check my post history I have posted several links recently to articles about it.
21·11 hours agoRight but you did not show me positive evidence. Pointing at a forest and saying “Bigfoot is in there, that is proof, I don’t have time to show you, find Bigfoot yourself!” doesn’t count as proof Bigfoot exists…
It is a search result for four words, not a list of positive evidence supporting your argument…?
I found her in a box and nervous to conclusively check to see if she is dead or not?
I could save on therapy if I never open it right?
Often it happens with me and your mom
There is nothing more low effort than linking to search results for words without any additional context or any indicators which of the search results are relevant or even necessarily support your conclusions…
You… sent me a search result for keywords… you want to be specific?
Yeah, I included that to show some breadth in my evidence, but the evidence for gaming addiction is fraught with structural issues as well. Certainly people get addicted to video games, but it is also decidedly a moral panic and thus comparing social media to it weakens the case for banning it in my opinion.
I don’t want entertainment, I want you to think harder before you resort to kneejerk reactions and I want you to cite your sources when you make bold claims.
Cite your sources or stop making these claims
As a child would it be ok for you to watch porn all day?
How does this relate to the conversation at hand?.. further do you honestly believe porn isn’t accessible to people under 18…???..???..???
Why not just let children smoke?
What evidence do you have that letting kids access social media is equivalent to exposing them to one of the most physically addictive cancer causing agents on earth?
Let me state the obvious, letting kids smoke cigarettes would lead to many many many many MANY young people dying prematurely. What you are suggesting, cutting off young people from social media, will likely also kill kids who are ostracized in their local in-person social networks when they become desperately isolated from anyone who isn’t bigoted.
I know this seems silly to state explicitly because it is so obvious but social media does not prematurely end people’s lives by massively raising the risk of a terminal illness that can’t be cured, to equate them is an offense to anyone who has lost a loved one to lung cancer or some other health complication from cigarettes.
The problem of people losing their cognitive abilities
Cite your sources or don’t casually assert such claims
Why are you here then?
How the hell are you going to ban all underage people from social media, who are you going to bestow complete authority over our digital identities to and who gets the authority to decide the details of how it is done?
You are being intellectually lazy and it shows.
if you need more information as to why, go speak to any schoolteacher in America who can’t get their students to pay attention for more than 60 seconds, or who can’t retain information that is literally written on the board in front of them.
Spring 2025
A few weeks ago, a YouTube short caught my attention. The short was yet another commentary on how Gen Z supposedly can’t focus on a particular thing for more than a few seconds. I scrolled through the YouTube comments and noticed a refrain: studies prove it. Everyone’s attention span is shorter, studies prove, as we become more deeply immersed in a digital, screen-filled world (insert unknown source here). Today’s teens, studies prove, bear the brunt of this crisis with an attention span shorter than that of a goldfish.
Something about that claim gnawed at me. After years of experience in the field of educational development, I knew the reality was more complicated than these sweeping generalizations. Where were these studies everyone kept referencing? What evidence existed behind this seemingly universal belief about our shrinking ability to focus?
I suspected I might find only a few studies to support the claim. I was not prepared, however, to find absolutely no evidence.
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The only substantive research I found came from Gloria Mark, who studied digital screen use and multitasking. Her work suggested that people today switch between screens more rapidly (see her studies on attention to screens in 2004, 2012, and 2016), but this hardly proves a universal decline in human attention. The notion that attention can be measured in simple “spans” is itself questionable: as Yoo et al. (2022) state, “there is no singular neural measure of a person’s overall attentional functioning across tasks,” adding, “attention is not a unitary construct but rather multi-faceted” (p. 782).
Advocacy group Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) says social media and the internet is “often a lifeline for young people with disability, providing one of the few truly accessible ways to build connections and find community”.
In a submission to the Senate inquiry around the laws, CYDA said social media was: “a place where young people can choose how they want to represent themselves and their disability and learn from others going through similar things”.
“It provides an avenue to experiment and find new opportunities and can help lessen the sting of loneliness,” the submission said. “Cutting off that access ignores the lived reality of thousands and risks isolating disabled youth from their peer networks and broader society.”
You sure about that buddy? Confident enough to maim the fragile social networks that young people living in hostile environments may rely on imperfectly in favor of another solution you haven’t even come up with yet?
Leave this place if this is how you see social media, by your own viewpoint digital communities aren’t good for people so why are you here?
I think russia would love a distraction from the embarassing mess their military has become at the frontline.
It is all about convincing stupid americans that it is inveitable that russia will win so Ukraine can be forced into unfavorable peace conditions where territory can be handed over to russia that would take russia years and years for them to take by force if they even could.
The less bandwidth world news has to cover how much russia is falling apart militarily, the easier it is for russia to maintain the illusion of overpowering strength.
Fair enough, but for the record I am not just arbitrarily mad about this.
This is the fediverse.
We should be excited about the possibility of social media when it is employed in a kind way for adults and younger people.
How am I supposed to feel optimistic when even here people resort to kneejerk reductions about social media moral panics without engaging with the nuance?
Yeah it is frustrating, but you aren’t wrong. I am angry because I care.