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[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 89 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Gojimbo@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait so now I'm in trouble for not being on my phone? Make up your mind! /s

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

There's a big difference between doom scrolling and education.

[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 16 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month 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