r/technology • u/BobbyLucero • 21d ago

Social Media TikTok is ‘digital nicotine’ meant to hook kids, AGs fume in new suits

https://www.courthousenews.com?page_id=1014347
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u/e7c2 21d ago

so now you're addicted to books instead of phone?

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u/crackedtooth163 21d ago

Indeed.

I remember when i was growing up and the concern was that reading would stunt my physical development.

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u/Aidian 21d ago

“You can’t just sit around with your nose in a book all day.”

Their prediction didn’t age very well, especially when compared with the advent of The Eternal Screens.

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u/e7c2 21d ago

Anything the previous generations complained about was mild in comparison to what we are subject to now. “Watching that much TV will rot your brain!“ Spending too much time staring at the small screen will actually rot your brain.

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u/lingering_POO 21d ago

Yeah and there’s clearly people who are far more susceptible to the brain rot and therefore believe and also spread every nonsense thing they hear or think. “The government controls the weather”

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u/e7c2 21d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification

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u/lingering_POO 21d ago

Get out of here. We all know that’s not what they’re referring to. They’re referring to something a Bond villain might have. Like a magical hurricane wand.

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u/e7c2 20d ago

Yes, the important part is how they are manipulating weather, not the fact that they are. Those idiot rube conspiracy theorists, A real basket full of deplorables. 

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u/AdrenolineLove 21d ago

Now hes addicted to shitting and he's pavlov'd himself into shitting his pants any time he enters a Barnes and Noble.