I 100% believe that Facebook and friends are contributing to this trend but it’s important to note that the linked study does not conclude that causation is present:

There is an independent association between problematic use of social media/internet and suicide attempts in young people. However, the direction of causality, if any, remains unclear. Further evaluation through longitudinal studies is needed.

Imagine if Google had simply not made Google Search shit

Insecurity is a pox on this world

He is also addicted to ketamine, yes. I hadn’t heard about the blown apart dick. Clearly I have also been living under a rock.

Online banker man turned electric car salesman bought that website you used to use to tell your friends about what the dentist’s waiting room was like or whatever (or yell at celebrities I guess) and used it to help that guy who fired people on tv become president. In return banker car man gets put in charge of shiny new government agency and given the power to fire basically whatever government employees he wants, also his private security detail is deputized by the US Marshals Service, also he has your social security number, probably

I think that should about cover it unless someone else wants to add more detail. But I think I was very thorough.

What would happen to such a human? Do you suppose that we would try to give them every job on the planet? Or would they just get fired?

No no, look what they did with Sun.

66% of Republicans vs 41% of Democrats and 45% of independents. I still don’t like those numbers.

For decades the American left has been, on the whole, anti-firearms. There simply are not enough of us who own and train with guns. If/when a civil war happens we lose. And that’s before you start taking into account drones and surveillance. People keep making fun of the 2A but seem to conveniently forget that damn near half the electorate just ceded the power of arms to the other half out of fear.

Any robot I can get drunk with is alright by me

oh my God it’s been almost 10 years hasn’t it? It feels like it was maybe 3 or 4 to me.

Halt and catch fire? No wait, they already do that.

What’s your preferred system?

I am loving The Expanse but I wish James Holden felt more like an inhabitant of the System he’s supposed to be saving. Sometimes it feels like he gets dragged along by the plot. And I’m halfway through season 3, I think I get that it’s not entirely coincidence that he’s always tied up in the shit, but sometimes it feels like the Hand Of God moves him into position just for the sake of the plot.

But then how will you know where the nearest Arby’s is on your commute

I still think “Dumbfuckistan” has a nice ring to it

People are posting about wanting to run away to the woods but I think it’s important to remember that cities can be quiet.

Not that we should all move to Delft, but if we built infrastructure for people instead of cars cities wouldn’t be so fucking loud.

I miss demotivationals, but seeing as motivational posters aren’t plastered everywhere anymore I guess the satire would fall kinda flat

I say “I has a bucket” almost every time I pick up a bucket

What an interesting omission. Thanks for pointing that out!