People often point to the terrible things in the world as evidence we're living in "the worst timeline". What examples are there of things that suggest our timeline is actually better than it seems? - eviltoast
  • Doombot1@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    Near-infinite access to pretty much any information you can possibly dream of, content, questions, etc, on a little device in your pocket

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            It was all the time because couldn’t get my mind to connect to all the things I was thinking about. Now I can and it just comes out. For example I never wake up in the morning hungover or anything my eyes just go bing and I am wide awake. I then rune 3 miles then read about an hour of wiki for whatever my mind comes up with. Then I got to my job for 48 hours.

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      3 months ago

      The problem with that is it has led to ignorant people believing they’re smart — all because they can find any random site that backs up any nonsense they assert. Critical thinking and credible research are endangered concepts now.

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        3 months ago

        Oh, of course. There are negatives to everything for sure. But I think as a whole it’s made life better in a lot of different ways.

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          I miss tge bar room arguments over who did what. Like tge guy who ran out of a bar and stole a plane and flew it back to tge bar to prove he stole a plane before. Awesome. Now you just hoogle everything