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Hard to believe r/science used to be like this. Nowadays that thread wouldn't last an hour. (archive.ph)
posted 1 year ago by SarcasticRidley 1 year ago by SarcasticRidley +89 / -0
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– rebuildingMyself 42 points 1 year ago +42 / -0

Pre-smartphone internet had a built in NPC-filter that vanished as soon as the right apps were deployed on iPhone

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– kxitx 26 points 1 year ago +26 / -0

smartphones were the second eternal September

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

smartphones and social media were a fucking mistake

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– rebuildingMyself 11 points 1 year ago +11 / -0

I'm just very grateful to have gone through high school and college before smartphones. Facebook was still limited to just people in your college which lead to many dates and new friends than the usual methods. It also didn't have photos (other than your profile pic) which kept most of the proto-onlyfans attention whore thots away from it.

Once smartphones hit everything changed. Work lunches used to be fun and full of conversation, but then it became a chore as everyone anti-socially finger fucked their phones rather than talk to the humans right in front of them. Dating got more annoying for similar reasons and I openly chastised girlfriends for whipping out their phones during dates THEY demanded I take them on.

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– Sir_Manalot 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

You are right, but greed always wins.

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– deleted 20 points 1 year ago +20 / -0
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– Sir_Manalot 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

It is the masses fault.

Video games, the internet and technology was a woman repellent until the early 2010s. Which is right when the internet started to decline.

Women joined in mass and men decided to follow women.

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– tchouk 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

in mass

https://linguix.com/english/common-mistake/en_mass

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– jvardrake 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Change and Hope turned quickly to stagnation and unhappiness. Individualism shunned for collective lying and mockery of those not taking part.

Change and hope were never anything more than a campaign slogan to sucker people into voting based on their perceived collective guilt (that leftist activists/radicals indoctrinated people into having) of the country's past history with prejudice and slavery.

Zero (good) change came from Obama presidency. Things (with regards to both government and society) only changed for the worse.

The media used the color of his skin to make him nigh unassailable - even today, we still see shitbags in the media, and idiots all over reddit, parrot the bullshit about how "he was scandal free! all he did was wear a tan suit! huRURrrRRRRrr..." - and all he did was implement as much of the leftist agenda, pushing our country ever further to the left, as possible.

It's also still hilarious to me that the media got this guy - a "black" guy - elected, and yet somehow they also used that to absolutely destroy race relations in this country. Things are dramatically worse than they were when I was in high school in the late 90s. It's crazy how much worse they are now.

Hope and change, and everything the left is up to, is all bullshit. They simple want to use whatever it takes to tear down our country, and remake it with in total control. That's the only change that interests them.

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– deleted 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0
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– when_we_win_remember 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

It looks like Obama phones got data in 2005 as near as I can tell. I'm not arguing with you; I was just trying to figure out when.

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– TheOutlaw 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

The smartphones were the trigger, but retard proofing desktop operating systems would have done the job had smartphones never come along. Things going wrong with computers used to be a lot more common, and using them regularly required problem solving skills that imposed a minimum IQ limit on computer and therefore internet use. Making tech user friendly enough for normies was a mistake.

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– Adamrises 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

using them regularly required problem solving skills that imposed a minimum IQ limit on computer and therefore internet use

Or having a family member who "was good with computers" that was guilted into constantly fixing it.

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