The hardest workers are workers who are terrified to be whisked away to a prison in a country they have never even been to!

I found her in a box and am 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

Will there be a final chapter to the Epstein files or will it be a Wheel Of Time series thing where it just goes on and on with each new plot point seeming to trounce the last one in severity of existential dread until the reader is hopelessly lost?

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?

Yes

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.

https://edspace.american.edu/thecfebeat/2025/01/01/the-myth-of-the-shrinking-attention-span-shed-siliman/

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.

…

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.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/06/ive-lost-my-friends-advocacy-groups-warn-australias-social-media-ban-risks-isolating-kids-with-disabilities

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?

Remember kids, this is why you never EVER listen to techbros about how to structure society.

And then that politician spectacularly loses in the next election even though they outspent their opponent by 10 times and it helps sink the idea that AIPAC is still powerful or holds any sway over the opinions of the average person in the US.

“Hi Benny, no more weapons for you :) Call me back babe if you want to talk about it.”

When Netanyahu calls back in a panic, simply repeat the phrase “stop the genocide or we will never give you military assistance again” until he hangs up.

It really doesn’t matter what words you choose, Israel is a colonial outpost of the US, we utterly control the trajectory of the nation and to pretend otherwise is to swipe an absolutely astounding amount of military, monetary and political enablement under the rug that we have showered endlessly on Israel while it slaughters Palestinians.

Those people don’t fucking vote.

Give sources for your evidence or stop repeating lazy narratives like this. You devalue this entire conversation by diluting the meaningful parts of it with your arguments towards people you imagine exist and are most definitely in the room right now with us like some kind of ghost you keep insisting is present that none of the rest of us can see.

Stopping putting words in my mouth that I did not say and have an actual conversation with the person in front of you, not this strawman you keep shoving in front of me while I am trying to make a different point that you refuse to listen to because you are sure I did something and am proud of it that I have repeatedly said I did not do.

The most popular politicians in the US are vocal about stopping the Palestinian Genocide, so yeah I absolutely would take that strategy if I was going to run.

Do you have… any basis for your beliefs or is this just all feelings and no facts for you?