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People often point to the terrible things in the world as evidence we're living in "the worst timeline". What examples are there of things that suggest our timeline is actually better than it seems? (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 89 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Near-infinite access to pretty much any information you can possibly dream of, content, questions, etc, on a little device in your pocket

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    ive said to my kids "you have the sum total of all human knowledge available at your fingertips 24/7 and youre bored? "

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Give them welbutrin and there mind will be on overload. Worked wonders for me. no sarcasm.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you feel this "overload" all the time or in bursts?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It was all the time because couldn't get my mind to connect to all the things I was thinking about. Now I can and it just comes out. For example I never wake up in the morning hungover or anything my eyes just go bing and I am wide awake. I then rune 3 miles then read about an hour of wiki for whatever my mind comes up with. Then I got to my job for 48 hours.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The problem with that is it has led to ignorant people believing they’re smart β€” all because they can find any random site that backs up any nonsense they assert. Critical thinking and credible research are endangered concepts now.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, of course. There are negatives to everything for sure. But I think as a whole it’s made life better in a lot of different ways.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I miss tge bar room arguments over who did what. Like tge guy who ran out of a bar and stole a plane and flew it back to tge bar to prove he stole a plane before. Awesome. Now you just hoogle everything

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