You are assuming that my experience is limited to youth crisis.

I have 11 years of experience working in addiction,… My response to your cynicism is this… You can only truly understand the scope of the greater issues on all levels … And with all generations, once you’ve worked in the field. And it helps to have lived experience.

Edit: oh yeah I know, I’ll up vote the uninformed opinion, and I’ll downvote the person who works in the field and is an educated and trained and expert /s

And yet it didn’t make you funny, weird 🤷

I don’t want to have an automatic yeah no yeah no back and forth with you but… I suspect I’m much older than you and I can attest here that most people, even in professional roles, were hammered all day. They were as “functional” as this current generation is on ridiculous amounts of weed, psychedelics, and uppers… That is to say, not as functional as they could be. There’s no “what’s worse” contest here; the choice of drug doesn’t change the underlying issue. I’m a recovered addict and I work in the field of addiction so I’m speaking from the heart.

Truth.

And that’s why it’s really not a contest, and we must forgive our parents’ generation and a few going back from there.

The piper is coming. No I’m not defending alcohol, but the level of drug addiction among our young people is shocking. The amount of digital addiction is shocking. I work in youth crisis so I am not talking on my ass, most young people are addicts now. So it’s all fun to talk down about boomers who drank but holy fuck is this generation ever screwed.

Please spare me your enthusiasm, I cannot bear any risk that my banking app won’t work or anything else along those lines.

You’re not really listening.

I know what I’m doing, I’m just not going to do it rn because I’m smart enough to know better.

Weirdly it’s not installed on my pixel 9. I shudder every time this piece of shit updates.

I know I should install graphene and I will but right now my life is a fiasco and I just can’t undertake the slightest risk that an essential won’t work. I’ve been installing custom roms since the PDA days so it’s not that.

I took apart a Flock camera and I found many ounces of pure gold & other valuable rare-Earth metals

They are literally filled with gold. Every single one is good for at least $30,000 of salvage metal and gold

I don’t really see it as satire. Satire should have some kind of cleverness to it; nuance.

Me with American Dad et al. They’re just soul-crushingly mean-spirited.

I was subjected to an endless barrage of Full House reruns… My sister was obsessed. Oh god… Oh… Just oh god.

Same experience here, my wife was obsessed with it and badgered me mercilessly until I finally sat down and watched… I lasted about 5 minutes before I welped and slapped both my thighs as I got up to play games

Is that you being fair or is that you rushing to defend something?

As if you don’t know these “tools” don’t work.

I use google “ai” in when thrifting for audio gear. Minimum 80% of the time it gets something GLARINGLY wrong. “Oh ho ho! You correctly pointed out that I was completely wrong on all counts! An astute observation! Let me try again but this time give you the CORRECT information.”

“I have nothing to say to you. Am I free to go?” (repeatedly) is the best option.

You’ve not heard of ISO compliance. Time to delete your surly, ill-informed diatribe.

You earned it. If you were even remotely funny or clever or had anything to say I wouldn’t but you’re a jackass.

Yes it is, it’s very specifically and carefully crafted to suck you in and tell you all the things that you need to think about and worry about today, that you would never would have considered prior.

One needs to make a very conscious attempt to walk away and I’m sure that you will find, like myself, that once you do, your online “news” life does not change except for the better.

Now? All the egregious behavior leading up to this point gave you no pause?

I will delete my reply if you delete your comment, you sound extremely foolish and this is embarrassing for you.