It's going to be fascinating to look back in 25 years at the way we managed the internet and social media and realize how wildly irresponsible we were. 10-year-olds on TikTok today are the equivalent of the 6-year-olds with black lung in 1900 from too much time in the mines.
I didn't realize Barnacle Pete’s Rough & Gruff Tug Tavern served food. I thought it was just drinks, and the closest place with a kitchen was across the street at The Abbey.
2. Yeah. There's a big difference between heath records and whether watch videos about someone doing woodwork or falling into a swimming pool.
3. Propaganda is highly overrated. I would say that much of it is a job creation scheme by people in politics. Go back to the 1970s and 1980s and the Olympics was full of gold winning athletes from the DDR, gold winning gymnasts from Romania. But crossing from West to East Germany was like the two trains in the opening scene of Stardust Memories. People who went to see the communist paradise realised it was terrible. Most people see through it, or just have to do the slightest amount of research to realise it.
1. It's also possible to correlate the rise in teenage depression with the decline in teenage smoking. I think teenagers have always struggled to feel good about themselves. I don't think that school is actually good for a lot of children after the age of 13 or 14. I personally felt that the things I did out of school, tinkering with computers, reading books, were far more productive than almost anything I spent my time on at school. Sure, there are scientists and humanities types that love school, but a lot of kids are just bored with it. And a way for a lot of kids to cope with this was smoking, nicotine being a mild antidepressant. Putting a few thousand kids on patches who feel depressed might tell us what the real problem is.
And you generally just can't get away from the New Thing is Evil. Especially when you can add "foreigners" to it. Tiktok is New Thing + Chy-na. Ask someone with a "tiktok is dangerous" perspective to actually explain that, and they can't.
Not gonna lie, when I first skimmed the headline I thought this was a post about a hot new TikTok trend called the Pants-Shitting Challenge.
It's going to be fascinating to look back in 25 years at the way we managed the internet and social media and realize how wildly irresponsible we were. 10-year-olds on TikTok today are the equivalent of the 6-year-olds with black lung in 1900 from too much time in the mines.
The CCP limits kids to 59 minutes a day on the app. We should have at least the same limits here.
I didn't realize Barnacle Pete’s Rough & Gruff Tug Tavern served food. I thought it was just drinks, and the closest place with a kitchen was across the street at The Abbey.
2. Yeah. There's a big difference between heath records and whether watch videos about someone doing woodwork or falling into a swimming pool.
3. Propaganda is highly overrated. I would say that much of it is a job creation scheme by people in politics. Go back to the 1970s and 1980s and the Olympics was full of gold winning athletes from the DDR, gold winning gymnasts from Romania. But crossing from West to East Germany was like the two trains in the opening scene of Stardust Memories. People who went to see the communist paradise realised it was terrible. Most people see through it, or just have to do the slightest amount of research to realise it.
1. It's also possible to correlate the rise in teenage depression with the decline in teenage smoking. I think teenagers have always struggled to feel good about themselves. I don't think that school is actually good for a lot of children after the age of 13 or 14. I personally felt that the things I did out of school, tinkering with computers, reading books, were far more productive than almost anything I spent my time on at school. Sure, there are scientists and humanities types that love school, but a lot of kids are just bored with it. And a way for a lot of kids to cope with this was smoking, nicotine being a mild antidepressant. Putting a few thousand kids on patches who feel depressed might tell us what the real problem is.
And you generally just can't get away from the New Thing is Evil. Especially when you can add "foreigners" to it. Tiktok is New Thing + Chy-na. Ask someone with a "tiktok is dangerous" perspective to actually explain that, and they can't.
Jeff becomes an ardent libertarian when it is about his kids...
I basically agree though- mostly we should just keep using Tik Tok to see who all the idiots are.