Polydextrous

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the trend of making more and more mentally disruptive technology has been continuing. Yes, capitalists have managed to make more and more effective attention/brain drains…that’s exactly what we’re saying.

  The kids “adapt” in that the world has changed and kids adapt to the world they grew up in. It doesn’t mean the above things aren’t true. It just means things change, and I dunno about you, but I don’t see things moving in the most positive direction. Angrier people, less and less able to have nuanced discussions, people becoming more entrenched and hostile about their views, more instances of thinking people with differing opinions are “evil…” I mean, shit, look how much radio has changed. From old timey radio broadcasts with the family sitting around the fire hearing tales of Redd McGibbon and Bullet to fuckin Howard stern making strippers do math so people can laugh at them and Rush Limbaugh. See what we’re saying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. We’ve also been saying that burning coal was destroying the climate, and then we said CFCs were destroying the ozone, and then we said massive deforestation is ruining the climate…doesn’t make any of them less true just because we’ve said similar beings about less efficient means of destruction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**STRAYS Discussion Megapost** 2023-08-18 🐶🐶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Will forte is not in this movie. It’s will Ferrell.

  I honestly think the movie looks like garbage. But that’s just me. If it were forte, I might actually reserve my judgement. But it’s not. It’s will Ferrell, and the man hasn’t had the most stellar record since…well, that’s up for debate. But it’s been a minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat shaped countermeasure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Important query: is that lion wearing shorts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨25 Years on, Saving Private Ryan’s Opening Scene Remains Cinema's Most Brutal Depiction of War⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reason being…? Did they really gun down a bunch of extras?