Idk if you’ve noticed, but in just 15 years, social media turned half of Americans into Nazis. People like McCain and Romney seem positively centrist.

the effect of Facebook on Brazil:

By comparison, smoking shortens people’s lives. Personally, I’d prefer a shorter life than a world where 90% of the most popular podcasts are a bunch of psychopaths.

As someone steeped in technology, if I had a button that destroys the internet, I’m not sure if I should press it. Probably. Probably.

Social media isn’t even in the same class as smoking in terms of harm. It’s civilization ending. Smoking shortens lives on average. Social media is an existential threat. How do you think Trump got elected?

Currently it’s illegal for kids to smoke cigarettes, which is nowhere near as harmful as social media.

You can read any of the gazillion pieces of research to reach this extremely obvious conclusion.

It’s not as bad as drugs.

Hard disagree.

need to upload all our data

This isn’t necessary. For instance, simply require any device to which children have access to preinstall software that blocks 90% of the internet. Problem solved.

You’re confused by the assertion that access to social media is at least as bad for children as some banned drugs? Is this your first day on earth?

Fine then. Make it the law that this software MUST be installed on any device accessible to a child. Problem solved.

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What should be. What is.

These are different things, and insofar as that remains the case, we should act accordingly.

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Sure, legalize smoking for 12 year olds so parents can regulate it themselves. Imbecilic reasoning.

Most of America has no communities at all. It’s a bunch of strangers.

The phrase “studied on leftist teachings,” as if it’s some kind of religion or cultist ideology, undercuts your claim.

The ability to entertain an idea without adopting it, intelligence, curiosity, and knowledge are inimical to ideological purity.

Maybe Hong Kong counts as a military occupation? I mean, I doubt if 3.5% of Ukrainians protested that Russia would just leave, so external occupations probably don’t count.

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Forum discussions about food are like a biochemist’s personal hell. No offense, but you’re all dumb as shit.

Why is everyone anti-science when it comes to nutrition? Sorry, but you’re just wrong, which I suppose isn’t too surprising when your reference is a three-decades old book written by a goofball non-scientist who knows about as much biochemistry as you do. None whatsoever.

Saturated fat is processed by the liver from Chylomicrons to VLDLs to LDLs in an incredibly taxing process directly responsible for fatty liver disease. No faster way to get diabetes than eating lots of saturated fat and sugar. Both are absolutely horrible and very poorly tolerated by humans, who are apes that evolved eating mostly plants. These are empirical facts. Stop treating food like a religion and just eat a fucking vegetable.