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  • Your argument would be valid if this phenomenon was specific to USA, but it’s not. It’s happening (to my knowledge) everywhere where kids were given unrestricted access to the Internet. That’s the common denominator, not political or social issues.

    That we also have political and social issues is not making the situation easier, but I don’t believe that’s the root cause for kids’ increased mental issues. The previous generations had their part of alarmism and issues as well – e.g. world wars, nukes, oil crises, cold war, smaller wars everywhere all the time (Korea and Vietnam even constituted a general draft in the US, which must have not been a great time), satanism panic/red scare/gay scare.


  • fosforus@sopuli.xyztoMemes@lemmy.mlI’ll fight anyone who shits on Gen Z
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    Gen Z’s biggest problem (which spawns all the other problems) is being constantly online, but it’s hardly their fault. The older generations (which I’m part of) founded the internet, molded it into digital heroin, and then went ahead and purchased the kids their devices that had mostly no restrictions or protections.

    It perfectly fits the Who Killed Hannibal meme.














  • fosforus@sopuli.xyztoMemes@lemmy.mlWhy must we be done this way?
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    I could be considered “tech savvy”, I know a bit of C/PHP and a lot of shell script. Explain ro me how I could learn that without a computer (I’m also self-taught)

    By using the computer or phone at home. Roughly half of the programmer workforce currently alive went through childhood without a mobile phone, because they didn’t exist for regular consumers. And personal laptops for children would’ve been perhaps an option for the top 1%, but probably not even them. Since you just didn’t have electronics in school.


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    Ignoring what we’re fighting about, just think of what you said there. You are saying (correct me if I’m wrong) that we should just not allow people with opinions that contradict you to not have any power

    That was a reaction to them saying that they hope I’m not a parent. Which I am. Obviously not a good reaction, but it happened.

    EDIT: I also hate stuff like this that directly attacks the person with the ideas. I have noticed that the replies to you became a lot ruder after you said that (probably it rubbed off.) I thing it is important to be calm in a discussion

    I feel that I was attacked first and replied with similar energy, but oh well. That’s how everyone feels in these things, right?