Except this isn’t how language works, “Why do all the Asians wear black jeans?” invites both questions, unless the former is explicitly stated as a fact. It is obvious that any such thing is an unfalsifiable observation.

People aren’t robots. “you’re making everyone do extra work” - not how people work, not how reasoning works. Viewing something through a framework of even incorrect assumptions can provide unique insight. That is inviting speculation.

On the other hand - you’re continuously asserting my claim is false but have provided no proof of this.

You have only questioned the proof of my claim, which yes - is anecdotal only, pure observation, as I readily admitted, and was never intended as a fact.

I would suggest setting aside some time to cultivate your critical thinking skills.

And you reckon asking why something is true isn’t in effect the same as asking if something is true, but with an invitation for speculation, rather than pure anecdotes which I’d be limited to otherwise?

It’s an observation, not a conclusion ya nitwit.

The absence of scientifically rigorous, high sample size experimentally proven, well substantiated, documented reproducible conclusions does not render the observation wrong in and of itself because they’re just not in the same category.

Observation is the first step to formulating a theory, which leads to a hypothesis, which can be experimentally tested.

Yeah most of those people aren’t on amphetamines that they require to do basic functions, are they?

Because I have ADHD and can’t relate, it’s in my post.

My gf who also has ADHD also cannot relate. We both tried TikTok, which showed the aforementioned slop, and we found it unstimulating as fuck and got bored very quickly. I

Back like four years ago when I was at uni, I wrote a real cringy sci-fi short story set in a future where political dissent had been neutered almost completely by a total subversion of language via commodification.

Essentially everything and anything was a brand, “anarchy” was a brand of shoe, even “terror” was a pack of potato chips, and “terrorists” were stans of that pack of potato chips, making it impossible to even talk about any kind of rebellion or alternative thought, and bots would perpetuate these alternative definitions, making it seem like they were more common, sort of like how if you own 51% of some primitive blockchains you can manufacture transactions.

Sufficed to say I’m glad it’s not true, but it’s worrying how consensus reality has collapsed and is now shaped by the few rich and powerful interests, not too dissimilar from what I imagined as a fun hobby creative exercise in imagining the most soulcrushing world imaginable.

It was also just a prologue to a story that featured ‘carbon capture gone wrong’ turning the world into a Sahara-esque desert, through which caravans of brave desert travellers delivered scarce goods between human settlements, assisted by navigators who sit in office buildings and make sure the caravans don’t get lost in the constant sandstorms. Then there was a conspiracy by the main love interest, a Fallout-esque cartoonish A.I. and the navigators’ boss who liked to LARP as a pre-collapse middle manager, they’d drug the navigator crew to keep the protagonist from finding out the shock twist that the travellers are slaves, amongst other things like the fact the rich all left in space rockets, are in contact with earth, live in relative luxury and that there are still functioning rockets on earth.

Also at various stages of conception it had time travel, alt-history and of course - the space shuttle, because autism.

Social media is just another scapegoat like Russian bots.

The truth is much worse: most people are, and have always been awful, bloodthirsty ghoulish pieces of shit and they were so before social media, you just know it now.

2024 Edit: Told ya.