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NOT THE CHRISTIAN RAPPER

[wombot 👀 @_colourmeamused]

new kind of pick me just dropped

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@debbieACSW @TheRealThelmaJ1 @NeverTrumpNeve1 https://t.co/BdLZ9wW7hk

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

DHS law enforcement has made OVER 900 ARRESTS during Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois.

To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally. We will find you.

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[donald boat @laserboat999]

Listen to me now: Never, never take these computer people at face value. As soon as they build a machine of overwhelming might they are going to send it against you and everyone you love. Not to kill you (unless you live in a certain part of the world where it is legal to kill as many people as you want) but to make your life just a little bit worse, a little bit more undignified every year. They already have. Your mother will drive herself into spasms of religious hysteria over reels, your father will not watch TV anymore, he will watch precariously aged AI golfers hit the skimpiest of shots out of the bunker, your brother will come home from work on friday and wire his salary directly into a 19 way parlay. It doesn't matter how many cars drive themselves, it doesn't matter how many solar panels we build, it doesn't matter how high the Sea Wall goes, it doesn't matter how low the delivery prices get. Every dream of prosperity is backed up by your perpetual shitdrinking out of the piss trough. You're going to pay for it all with, in the most literal and straightforward sense, brain damage. Their bag is secured by your future head injuries

[donald boat @laserboat999]

My great grandfather's war photos from north africa '43 inexplicably have benicio del toro chilling and smoking hookah in the background

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The Financial Times @jburnmurdoch recently created a viral panic by pointing out a decline in young people’s “conscientiousness” & then concluding that “smartphones and streaming services seem likely culprits.”

I’m calling BULLSHIT in Rolling Stone today:

There is no doubt screen ubiquity and social media addiction are exacerbating mental health crises. We’re inside a grand experiment subjecting millions of brains to a toxic brew of FOMO living-my-best-life content and go-fuck-yourself feedback. That is terrible for kids — and limiting their phone use is a great idea.

But are phones really the PRIMARY driver of these anti-social trends?

Could there be a simpler hypothesis for the decline in positive attitudes and prosocial behavior among this cohort?

What about the fact that younger Americans have been living through a shitshow in the offline world, now culminating in a cost-of-living crisis? What about the likelihood that in the post-Citizens United era, many of them have concluded that democracy is already dead, that they have little agency, and that civic participation and extroversion are pointless?

What about those Occam’s razor explanations?

Think about it: A 27-year old American man lived through a stolen 2000 presidential election, 9/11, the Iraq War, a financial crisis, mass foreclosures, an opioid epidemic, the explosion of economic inequality, the rise of Trump, a pandemic, the doubling of college costs, the tripling of health care costs, and now the return of Trump, a brutal job market, an affordability crisis, and skyrocketing death rates among his contemporaries.

This dude has been loaded up with debt, priced out of housing, and left scrounging for a bullshit job that will barely pay him enough to survive and yet locks him into indentured servitude for fear of losing his meager subsistence benefits (if he’s lucky enough to even have them).

And when he’s tried to engage in elections or the democratic discourse to demand political change, he’s been slandered as a freak, a charlatan, or a “Bernie Bro” as every election of his lifetime has been purchased by the oligarchs endlessly kicking him and his generation in the face.

So ask yourself again: Is the decline of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extroversion the counterintuitive consequence of screens and streaming services altering neural pathways in complicated ways?

That theory makes for spicy tweets, Instagram reels, blog posts, talk radio segments, and podcast discursions — but is it really the central explanation?Or do those trends actually reflect something simple and boring: Namely, that for young people, reality bites way more than it ever has?

And if that is what’s going on, then shouldn’t the frame be broader than smartphones and streaming? Shouldn’t the discourse be homing in on demanding the necessary financial resources to make things a little bit easier for younger generations?

Full piece here: https://t.co/7RHZPAi1ir

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

Twitter won't let me retweet this.
When I rt, it just immediately rolls it back.

Must mean there's something to this. Elon wouldn't do that kind of thing WOULD HE

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@ObtainerOf Have you read @AnnieJacobsen ‘s awesome book on the subject?

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@aspiringpeasant That was supposed to say “ftw” my apologies

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@aspiringpeasant Dilly beans dye

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@badinfinite You have any euro ones ?

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@Cadigan @Siegel_Jan Cellar Door

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@katwgws Have you watched BRIGHT or whatever with Will smith?

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@localrapfan @LarsRoemheld Many are saying this

[Police are the standing army we were warned about @TierOnePoster]

Looks like @RobBonta's politically motivated prosecution at the direction of ALADS has hit a brick wall. Charges never should have been filed in the first place.

[daily kumeta kouji @dailykumeta]

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ED

[Gift of Trees of Draught of Barrel @IntractableLion]

It is impossible to overstate how much you should not do this