What Will Be The "Turns Out Cigarettes Are Bad For Us" Of Our Generation? (r/AskReddit)

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[@PossumReviews]

Exposing children to the internet and social media at a young age is going to mess them up mentally, emotionally, and socially. Imagine if you started using Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok when you were six, before you had any conception of long-term consequences. Imagine being rejected from college or fired from a job because of some stupid thing you said when you were ten, or having some cringey video of you participating in some stupid meme when you were eight floating around the internet forever.

[@fireice3040]

I mean- I had access to the internet since I was 3 and I am doing fine at school. I jumped a few grades and is the top few people of my class

[@bronze1324]

Oh shit, it’s Shaym.

[@TiltedHandle]

If you are a bit more of a experienced child on the internet your used to it havent regret a single word I said when I was 10 on the internet

[@TiltedHandle]

But when I was 8 quite new to the internet everything was cringe EVERYTHING but the employer could go with it since well you’ll prob be in the same generation as him/her probably will understand it

[@lemons1559]

@@fireice3040 yes, there are exceptions everywhere.

[@burningsinner1132]

Fun fact: Earplugs on concerts actually help if you are not in the mood to listen other people. They massively reduce background noise and music is too damn loud to be cut off this way.

[@yucol5661]

I don’t get why propel go to a concert for the music itself. It sounds like going for the environemnet, or the fact that your favorite band might be physically there, is more of a better reason. But the music will sound weird and messed up because of the volume and screams

[@kseniyal781]

@@yucol5661 idk about you but I went to a concert simply for the music . There wasn’t much environment and the singing was better irl than on streaming platforms, it was cool

[@TheBestAsbestos13]

@@yucol5661 I go because touring/live performances are a huge financial boon to the artist. Artists get hosed even if you legitimately purchase their music (iTunes/Spotify) or stream on monetized platforms (KZbin). If there's someone that you really want to continue making music, going to a show is a huge sign of support! Also merch, but I get that's not for everyone and plenty of really cool fledgeling artists don't have the means to maintain a merch store.

[@burningsinner1132]

@@yucol5661 Big equipment plays music differently. You can physically feel it with your whole body.

[@mr.j1003]

Can feel the sound all through your chest

[@Riggy1991]

working full days every single day because 'it's what you do when you're an adult' people need free time to unwind and sometimes literally do nothing

[@roberttramone9967]

So many people like "meditation" but I'm use to calling it mandatory boredom because everything is so stimulating, music, driving, work, whatever. Mandatory boredom daily is a good way to calm down and ease worry

[@roberttramone9967]

@Tony Montana boredom is godlike! (In my eyes they're the same lol)

[@SP-qi8ur]

@Tony Montana How so?

[@SP-qi8ur]

@Tony Montana Very interesting, thanks

[@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333]

I work 30 hours per week on average and can barely manage that. Idk how anyone works 60+ hours.

[@Sesh23]

A kid fell playing tag and skinned his knee. Now my sons k-5 school doesn’t allow tag or any game that involves *running*

[@HYPERLLAMAS64]

That's crazy. A skinned knee teaches you to be more careful! Our bodies are made to heal.

[@gismosfinalform2031]

🤦‍♂️

[@DeLorean4]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

And then adhd is rife and you medicate or diagnose kids for being kids...

[@Baconator5642]

@@rebeccaconlon9743 No, adhd is just alot more commonly diagnosed because we recognize the signs now, very few kids are misdiagnosed with adhd, it's genuinely just a very common condition and a massive issue with humans neurology.

[@magpie9491]

Hey, that teacher comment at the beginning is still relevant folks. Please use your voting power to help schools and send letters to your district. Urge them to not kill the arts. They help critical thinking and self expression, etc. Don't kill recess and play. They help with focus, social skills, and much more. Parents, please find a way to enrich your child's learning in any way possible. We need parent power now more than ever. - sincerely, a teacher.

[@ryanhughes6405]

Honestly iam of the opinion that public schools just need to die in a fire. Then again iam 18 and just finished my schooling (which has dont nothing but made me hate my life. Made me depressed and suicidal for a long time and still am in varying degrees. And just overall fucked me up badly) I'll take homeschooling any time and anyday of the century over public school

[@magpie9491]

@@ryanhughes6405 I am so sorry your experience has been so horrid. I know many who feel the exact same way and my heart goes out to you. There are bad teachers out there, but there's also bad administration and bad government to blame for a lot of what we must uphold, abide by, and make decisions about. By all means, homeschooling should be supported. Just hoping society doesn't give up on those who honestly have no choice but to do public schooling. The public can help us more than we can as long as they support and fight for what matters.

[@ryanhughes6405]

@@magpie9491mabey...still my experience with public school makes me (if/when i have kids) want to only exclusively homeschool my kids. So they don't turn out how i did. I just never ever till and even after the day i did want anyone ever in my family to be in public school. I don't know 100% about homeschooling but fuck it has to be a trillion times better then the endless hellhole i went through!

[@placeholdernameisplacehold7671]

I absolutely hated recess and play. The unstructured and barley supervised time would just be unbearable for me. Not to mention having to spend time with other kids and socialise (which I was terrible at). I would sometimes deliberately get detention so that I could sit inside and read instead of going out to play. I say bring on structured learning.

[@Nina-or8ni]

Just wanted to drop in and say thank you (and other teachers) for the work that you do! Teachers who care about their students and their students development are so important. As someone who grew up in inner city public schools, good teachers didn’t get appreciated enough.

[@kmonti1]

I've already decided that when I become a mother, I will not be posting photos of my child on social media. I'm a hypocrite because I like photos of my friends' kids all the time, but I truly believe that parents haven't thought through the potential consequences of putting their children online for their 500+ acquaintances to see when the children aren't old enough to understand what's going on. All my baby photos are in a photo album at my parents' house and I would like to afford my child the same level of privacy that I had. Update: I'm a proud mother of a 9-month-old now! He was in a group family reunion photo over the summer and I'm sure that ended up on someone's Facebook. (Seeing as I've ditched Facebook myself, I don't know for sure.) Other than that, we've kept true to our promise so far and I LOVE my parents and in-laws for respecting mine and my husband's wishes. ❤️

[@sarina1234ful]

Thank God I'm not the only one that feels this way. I cringe whenever I see pics publicly posted online of kids in the bathtub. Do people not understand that there are pedophiles online hunting for this kind of stuff? Why put your kid through that and not understand that they are a child that cannot possibly consent to have their privacy disregarded?

[@kmonti1]

@@sarina1234ful That too. You just never really know who is looking at these photos and what their intentions are! It could even be someone you know and trust. Parents are so excited about documenting their children's milestones and life events that it's like they forget this child will grow up one day and see everything that was ever posted about them. If facebook was around when I was little and my parents had posted some my bathtub photos, I'd be mortified. Even if a ped0 isn't looking at them, a young child just shouldn't be under a spotlight, even if it's just a few hundred people. I predict some psychological damage across future generations as a result from this.

[@CountingStars333]

Thanks.

[@gravetiger9333]

I've got a couple of FB friends who post their kids all. the time. Like multiple times a day sometimes. I've literally watched them grow up and have never met them and likely never will yet I'll see all their little field trips and summer vacas, who they're dating in ten years... It's weird

[@Griza_bella]

@@sarina1234ful Another scary part on posting baby photos on social media, it is super easy to steal a child's identity when their life is plastered on social media to see. You know the kid's full name, face, (sometimes) signature, the exact birthdate, which school they go to and more. All that information that parents usually show is unknowingly critical and can put that child in a crisis once they are 18 and know that they are a victim of identity fraud.

[@kikikungfukakes6639]

Number 1, my son is 7. He wasn't allowed to have recess anymore, no gym, no breaks. My son can't stop moving. He doesn't know how to make friends. He can't sit still. There hasn't been music in over 9 years. There hasn't been art. They stopped after school arts and cooking and only sports and computer programmer work for middle school. My 2nd grader doesn't have to know how to spell words, he said computers fix it. It's... Sad to being them to school. I literally feel like I'm sending him to prison. I feel like he's slowly getting sadder the more he's told to stop moving be quiet and sit still. I just want our little ones happy. Guess .. I'm joining the pto.

[@brandonmunsen6035]

Yeah the education system in America is a joke.

[@brandonmunsen6035]

I mean just look online for ten minutes

[@kazzTrismus]

reading writing and math scores are the lowest in 50+ years... but theyre gonna beat the democrat theory of the week to death in front of gradeschoolers

[@GretgorPooper]

What's the big idea with cutting play time for children for more boring classroom shit? That's so nonsensical, who had this idea?

[@platinumdiamond7]

@@GretgorPooper lobbyists who need more fresh labor

[@jsange]

Dating apps because industrializing human connection is one of the stupidest things we've ever done, right next to Bluetooth earplugs and eliminating the 3.5mm jack.

[@nitevibe9886]

Actually nice not getting yanked in door handles and having to untangle wires nowadays

[@jsange]

@@nitevibe9886 wear them under your shirt

[@slickjim2626]

Nah Bluetooth is the best ngl

[@jsange]

@@slickjim2626 lunacy

[@GuzmanMPetit]

3.5mm removable jack for the win

[@jwinnard]

Too the first one, completely agree My primary school had people with horrific behaviour issues later on and who started when I was higher up. The breaks were cut short, we had reading twice a week, and hour of English a day, 30-60 minutes of math a day science a few times a week. And the breaks were more then halved by the time I left with us at school from 8-5 with 30 minutes for lunch (including queuing for other year groups to be done) there were days I didn’t even have my lunch and should be in my lesson. Then the secondary school I went to had three decent sized breaks, 6 lessons a day, 9-4, hour for lunch, lessons most schools don’t have like water sports, more sport options, two hours a week where you could choose to do homework, sport or music. And the people were better and the school was one of the top schools in that part of the country Kids really need breaks and lessons that aren’t just math, science and English

[@eddyhoopin]

dang all my excitement to go back to school is gone

[@eddyhoopin]

school is slowly turning into more of a prison

[@JunkerTheIV]

Middle schooler here, my elementary had full writing, music, art, SS, and Science so I guess I'm lucky.

[@eddyhoopin]

@@JunkerTheIV just give it a little more time

[@ReginaPhelangee]

That’s Terrible:(

[@tims.2717]

"Living an easy life." Well, the thing is, we live in a culture that simply can't sit still and doesn't know how to enjoy itself. We're afraid of inactivity because we've been conditioned to believe that we need to remain productive and if we take a break from business and are not always trying to achieve things, we are wasting our life.

[@sacredbeastzenon]

True.

[@iamasimpformanyahaterforno5117]

That's why I've decided that with my life, I'm just gonna sit here. Sure, I'll have a job. But it's not gonna be my main focus. With school, I'm not gonna make it my life. People will say I have no life, but since when was life forcing yourself to do something all the time? Since when was life having to work 8am-3pm every day and after that do busywork for no reason for 2 hours, read a book, then eat, do chores, and go to sleep? Since when was life not enjoyable? Since when did I have to take care of 4 children, if not that go to a job for 70 hours a week, if not that party every single day and get high? Since when we're those the only options? So no. Let me enjoy my valid life in peace, and let me do nothing with it if that's what makes me happy, because it doesn't affect anyone, and certainly not you. Sorry for the long reply lol.

[@carmelwolf129]

@@iamasimpformanyahaterforno5117 you know what? i knew this, i repeated this to myself every single day for the past 2 months but i still needed to hear it from a stranger. so thank you i guess. we all only have one life, so why the hell are we trying to busy ourselves with things we don't enjoy if we don't need to?

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

Everyone racing through life as if you can survive it. No one makes it out alive. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[@thatslegit]

after getting fired at amazon for bs on production numbers i learn "do what you are told, never a bit more" if i have no work to do then i have a time of peace, still hate co workers that ask me to be productive when we done everything, i learned it the hard way and they should learn to value themselves when a company doesnt even care we having 20 year old computers running windows 95

[@sidemen10mill16]

Being a teenager watching this video just makes me realise how fucked up my life is going to be in 10 years

[@roboticfuzzball179]

Yep, and doing so many of these things like vaping and weed. But we will see.

[@ROBLOXVeriferBlock]

In a way I’m glad I’m nearly an adult from reading all that school and kid stuff

[@wilurbean]

@@roboticfuzzball179 vaping has so, so, so many studies showing its safe. You only think it's bad bc big tobacco has pushed that for years in the US

[@wilurbean]

It's not that much more fucked than it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago in most aspects. The biggest thing you need to watch out for is the inability to think critically. Question everything. Learn history. Anything related to sociology, psychology, and soft sciences has become straight propaganda. The "studies" in those fields are garbage and just political nonsense. Go look for yourself

[@struanroberts]

@@wilurbean It's not safe, just significantly better than smoking.

[@laylacastleberry7584]

Honestly, as a student, I agree that taking away play time worked horribly. When I was in elementary, recess was taken away because of an issue in our class, and it stayed like that for the whole year. We were in 3rd grade, and all of us loved to play. At the end of the year we literally just stopped trying to play anything all together, and we eventually never played anything again after that. This lasted until 5th grade. In 5th grade, the idiot staff decided that we were not only gonna be forced to play, but that we weren't allowed to sit down period. The only time that you were allowed to sit down was when you were on the swings, and that was it. My class was pissed, and from then on we became the most unruly and miss-behaving class of the year in 6th grade. And to this day, we are still the worst behaving class, we are now in 7th grade. And this is still happening, my little sister is in 4th grade, and all they do is run for P.E. They don't play games anymore, just running. So please, just let the damn kids play games. For their own sake, unless you wanna deal with angry, and dis-respectful kids.

[@zekiz774]

They actually took away breaks from you?

[@thepanda9782]

Yeah I remember at my elementary school this became an issue because they "didn't have the budget to hire recess monitors" They were also accepting more kids than ever & the playgrounds became sooo packed that they divied up time on the play equipment between the older and younger kids. So 3 days of the week grades K-3 got the equipment, then 2 for 4-6. They would also break the portions into smaller groups where some were just supposed to sit inside for the whole recess, unmonitored, sitting still and quiet at our desks because they didnt have the staff to watch everyone...they had older children watch the younger children....like they expected us all to just be robots they could boot up at will ~ essentially torturing us since we could see other kids playing outside. They also took away equipment/balls because they didn't want to pay someone to manage them. It was horrible. This was back in like mid-late 2010s. Things around that time became really terrible for children in terms or school and time with parents, and it's only gotten worse.

[@pul-sor]

you should just tell them that

[@AlexReynard]

Kids who play learn to establish social connections and solve problems amongst themselves. This is not desirable for authority figures who want citizens to be dependent, miserable, lonely slaves.

[@laylacastleberry7584]

@@AlexReynard Honestly

[@JcruzFit]

I understand the whole sugar argument, but a lot of people take it too far and will start avoiding things like beans and potatoes. Also yes, we have been consuming fats since the very beginning, but not all fats are equally either.

[@micahkafka8416]

The problem is the prevalence of refined sugars and high fructose corn syrup. The kind of carbs your body doesn't have to put much effort in digesting so they go straight to your fat reserves. Interestingly, fats are more healthy. The reason some think otherwise is a very successful campaign by the sugar industry in the 1900s

[@ChrisStuart911]

@@micahkafka8416 I heard that too! Doesn’t matter how much fat you eat it’s really the sugar intake that’s bad for your body (well too much of anything is bad obviously but I’m not talking about the extremes) Plus if you want your body to be a certain way then ofc cut down on the fat but it’s not unhealthy to consume fat Sugar is extremely bad and I’m still researching about alternatives

[@arianrolex6456]

Lmao and you have us asians here adding salt and sugar into everything, cos it’s gonna taste like shit otherwise

[@theresaoneill6525]

I don't believe anyone is learning moderation. We don't need that much food on a plate, a 48 oz drinks. A lot of people are no able to eat a normal amount a day. Look at the muckbang channels they are kind of gross no need for that stuff

[@101Volts]

@ALBERT WANG Relevant: my 1960s Waffle Iron (which cooks 4 waffles at once) cooks a smaller volume, compared to a much newer waffle iron. With the old one, it took 10 minutes to cook the barley waffles on Medium (about 425 F,) too, so it's not a drive-thru level of speed.

[@jonathancearley4186]

My SO’s mom thinks that the best way to raise a kid is to make them bored so they have to figure out a way to entertain themselves. But won’t allow them to be entertained by a screen. So this kid has to figure something out while their mom sits there and watches tv and just says to figure something out.

[@CristianMartinez-cr1eo]

The hypocrisy of it all lmao 🤣 but tbh she should be teaching the kid how to play without the aid of electronics

[@katdeans3951]

sounds like mine

[@chintz7428]

This was my mom to a tee. Watching young & the restless and other shitty soap operas XD

[@cynthiaholland13]

Lucky kid

[@jonathancearley4186]

I forgot to add that he isn’t allowed outside due to the air quality and his health issues. So he’s stuck inside.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

turns out Tower Defense and strategy games are good for brain development

[@superpeeboy]

Fuck yeah play bloons td

[@randomdudeofdahood3973]

Seems obvious, but sometimes obvious things pass over people's heads.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@superpeeboy BTD3 Is my second favorite flash game, very close behind the Potty Racers Franchise.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@Sufiya H. Heh! not in highschool. Cards against humanity, red flags, and even Dungeons and Dragons were all played at my highschool when I visited in 2018.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@Sufiya H. I visited the gym and half the kids there were in some game or another. Volleyball in teams of 6 or more, 3 sets of badminton, a basketball game or two going on casually. Might be different where you come from, but round here ain't nothin change. Y'know what the other half were doing? Walkin' round the track communicating face to face, some even having in-depth conversations and laughin' their buts off. Maybe some kids start off a bit rough, but by highschool they sure seem fine to me.

[@Antoto96]

The fact that social studies is being cut is insane. That's history, our history and human history getting cut. It's not even that school are making the kids learn their version of history it's they're just removing a lot of the curriculum as a whole. History is how we understand culture and the arts. It's how we connect with people who don't always share the same culture as us.

[@Baconator5642]

This is the fascist gameplan, remove childrens understanding of the world so they can implant their ideology in them, this is exactly what theyve been doing for decades and nobody gave a fuck because political partys distract from it with innane bullshit.

[@mogboVA]

Always wondered why it was called social studies in the first place

[@magonus195]

Gotta feed the AI with more STEM drones

[@lordhoweproductions3733]

But they have time to teach them about genders, pronouns, and homosexuality. What happened to curriculums? 🤦‍♂️ thank god I don’t have any kids

[@cokefrancis7549]

​@@lordhoweproductions3733imagine teaching kids about pronouns. What next? Adverbs?

[@xdmztryvsvedine2773]

Sleep deprivation has always been a thing for centuries. So it’s not gonna be something that belongs to our generation. That’s a problem that every generation shares.

[@WhiteWolf-lm7gj]

I think that people's general point was that it seems to have gotten much worse and become a trend moreso in this generation, not that it was only a problem in this generation

[@TinyCloud90]

Yes everyone is chronically tired all the time including myself.

[@cryingfreemanenjoyer5897]

@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj Do you really think people during war times were getting plentiful sleep? Think not, this is an issue spanning over generations, some had it worse than ours..

[@WhiteWolf-lm7gj]

@@cryingfreemanenjoyer5897 I'm sure some have had it worse than us, but that doesn't make it not a problem. Why are you on a video talking about this generation's overall habits and then going "well, other people had it worse"

[@cryingfreemanenjoyer5897]

@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj I’m simply pointing out that it’s not a downward spiral of doom as everyone in the comment section is making it out to be, yes it’s a problem but you’re not helping by blowing it out of proportion

[@Lynx-og5fd]

putting naturally intelligent children through advanced courses. as a nearly burnt out former gifted kid, it's killed me. i freak out if my report card has a B. god forbid i ever get a C. we should be able to learn at our own pace. not wonder about multiplication in first grade end up doing pre-calc in 8th grade. it just causes them to burn out in high school or university. in the long term, it's just going to result in numerous mental health issues and lack of ambition. edit: i'm ending the quarter with a C in ap chem. i literally feel nothing. this is just the result of everything in the world in general tho.

[@sunflower8227]

in my school the advanced classes weren't forced so i just stayed within my pace and it changed absolutely nothing, i still got a bit dumber.

[@wheatandwheatby-products4862]

Do you one better, the current grading system. Challenging classes for children who would other wise get bored waiting for everyone else or start having behavior issues isn’t the problem. It’s like how reading speeds can be different and telling the slow readers to go faster or saying the fast readers should either sit around or do it again won’t help them like getting challenged in a class that matches their speed. On the other hand the fact that we actively encourage telling children that they can do better and shame them for not having a good paper grade and never checking what they got from the lesson and interpreted it as because that seems to be some sort of plague for adults to do. Gave me major burnout when I got to the point where I couldn’t keep up and I just got told that I’m smart so I should be better than the students they gave slack too and not need the help or slack.

[@jablue4329]

I was that, but I figured out what "good enough" is and stopped caring about my mom freaking out for a B-. That push to do advanced courses got me into an amazing college, but reaching that balance is the best thing I did for myself.

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

I was the dumb kid but somehow graduated top of my class and now in med school

[@rubikx6097]

YES THIS I was forced into my schools GT (gifted and talented) program at 7 and forced into advanced pre AP classes with kids 1-3 grades above me I start junior year tmmrw and I dread waking up during the summer I worked a very labor intensive job outside in Texas I saw my new year schedule yesterday I’d rather work doubles for a month then start this all over again

[@hawkshot867]

Was here 2 minutes and I'm already bummed lol. It's almost like giving schools budgets based on their student's performance on standardized tests is a really fucking stupid idea.

[@Handlethis81637]

And expectations and standards are lowered so more kids can “pass”.

[@luisapaza317]

@@Handlethis81637 yes?

[@zombierobot8769]

There is so many different ways intelligence is expressed the standardized test doesn't cover. Some relating to completely difference senses; visual learners, auditory learners, probably some level of kinesthetic, and etc. Some are better with problems on paper and others are better in "field work" and need to literally do and see everything to get a feel for their subject. And those don't always overlap. I wish the education system put more time into trying to make curriculum that ascertains and caters to the student's capabilities rather than a general method that everyone needs to fit.

[@s.g2344]

I def agree about childs play being forgotten about not just in school but outside. parents are so worried that their children are going to fall behind that they put their child in every single club going and extra tutoring so that their child literally has no time just to be a child. Honsetly during lockdown/covid era the behaviour I saw from the children improved so much because they were only allowed to do normal schooling and no extra curriculum activities was shocking because they weren't exhausted. I really feel for kids nowadays, they're not allowed just to be kids and have fun and are under too much pressure 😔😔 xx

[@RRW359]

Is there any actual evidence people in the past were happy and had no ambitions? Or was it just less acceptable to talk about how unhappy you are?

[@matthewgilfus1640]

Well, their ambitions were simpler. House, spouse, kids, retirement. Nowadays a house and property aren't good enough, it has to be so big and so well maintained, spouse has to be this that the other thing and something else also, kids can't be kids they also have to be smart funny attractive successful monetarily, and retirement means not being at peace and enjoying the fruits of your labor but moving to florida enjoying sunshine and travelling and being a tourist til ur last dying day.

[@CircusFoxxo]

In the past if you were unhappy with your lot in life it was seen and treated as being ungrateful for God's blessings. Viewed as a sin for reaching above your station

[@atomictraveller]

gen x grew up with reagan and imminent atomic war until the berlin wall came down. my parents grew up in the shadow of ww2 it's cool that tavistock and youtube today offer you a selection of doomsday scenarios for you to select from

[@modgirl7512]

@@matthewgilfus1640 don't forget the 2008 American economic crash that like with every time something happens to USA it affected the rest of the world. Nowdays if you have a stable job with a contract that say you aren't going away in 6 months youre lucky.

[@matthewgilfus1640]

@@modgirl7512 don’t forget, nowadays everything costs what it does because they assume everyone has a two income household. So everything is literally twice the cost. Thats part of the problem.

[@zphilly7624]

I’m not going to lie, I was kinda waiting for someone to bring up vaping. The surge in popularity, 3-5 years ago was insane. I remember a decent amount of people I knew from school, vaping. If it be in the school bathroom, personal vehicle (parked), etc. I never did it because I always thought it was stupid, thank f***. The whole cooking the lungs from the inside, may apply. Literally ad campaigns still run on YT about how bad vaping is. Could very much become at least my generation’s smoking (cigarettes) substitute, either that or weed.

[@KRYMauL]

It already caused a bunch of teen health problems.

[@creature2479]

@@KRYMauL It actually didn't, Illicit weed vapes that had lots of oils in them (horrific for you) were the culprit. Most kids just don't wanna admit that they were vaping weed.

[@welcometovibespace5596]

I remember when my school had dont vape posters at our schools

[@creature2479]

@@welcometovibespace5596 Yeah, tbh the only people that should be vaping are ex-smokers trying to quit

[@ClevrYogi]

Dude. There was a thousand comments that literally just said "vaping" but google or KZbin or whoever the vaper company paid or threatened to keep it out of the comments took it out

[@jonathanryan2915]

Touch screens instead of buttons, knobs, switches, and even levers in cars. Also cars and trucks being ridiculously big, heavy, and inefficient when we're supposed to be conserving gasoline, diesel, electricity, whatever makes the car move

[@cow1816]

What’s the difference between a button that you press on an elevator and a button you press on a computer or phone? The keys on a phone don’t just press themselves.

[@user-zx4vj6ub8r]

@Nunya Business Trucks are extremely useful.

[@kaylanotsmiley7006]

@@cow1816 I think it has to do with texture. You can easily turn a nob or hit a button while driving without taking your eyes off the road.

[@samuelmmmk181]

@@cow1816 it's a development thing.

[@Jose04537]

@Nunya Business They made a funny comparison and turns out, a lobster is more aerodynamic than a Jeep despite been a sea creature.

[@Zinervawyrm]

Yeah, smoking weed and vaping, I literally had a friend who argued that both are not bad for you. I asked her if she realized that both are still a form of smoking, and she told me that at least they weren't cigarettes. Smoking is smoking, and smoking burns the lungs, literally!

[@bothermenone]

Weed does have medical benefits, but you're absolutely right that any form of inhaling smoke is bad for you.

[@Zinervawyrm]

@@bothermenone Yeah, I'm not against anyone who eats it.

[@mr_koko2070]

Vaping is actually usually even worse than just regular ol' cigarettes. Vapes were meant to be as a healthy alternative to cigarettes, but that lost it's meaning when vapes started having flavors and bigger doses of nicotine or whatever they put in cigs and vapes.

[@Zinervawyrm]

@@mr_koko2070 The first time I saw a commercial for a vape pen was on late night tv while watching an SNL rerun. I legit thought it was a skit because how stupid the pen looked. Then SNL ended and the commercial played again. Vapes still look stupid as all hell.

[@noriakikakyoin1423]

​@@bothermenoneSmoking weed is still bad for you to the point where you become mentally dependent on being under the influence to function in any sort of capacity

[@PikminandOatchi]

Schools: "No play" Autistic/ADHD/Hyperactive kids: "Guess I'll die then".

[@CircusFoxxo]

Boomers: *take away socialization time in school for more standardized testing* Also boomers: "lul kids have no social skills its them dam fones"

[@tlkfanrwbyfan8716]

Boomers: absolutely destroys college costs and housing prices Also Boomers: The later generations will never afford a _proper_ education and own home lul

[@theflamingphoenix6986]

Not just neurodivergent kids, but all children in general. Play is pretty important for socialization and knowing how to interact with others, and not being able to play with other kids kind of damages all of that.

[@jesussandoval9843]

If you did the same with a high energy dog like a greyhound or a husky everybody would be saying it’s abusive, and let’s just say kids are worse than my husky energy wise.

[@phantasmag0ria258]

teacher: no play!!11! no toy!!!! me, someone who has dermatillomania and ADHD: guess i'll die

[@squarepickle]

As an avid energy drink enthusiast, let me just say... ENERGY DRINKS. It got so bad I was drinking 10 a day and I couldn't function without them.

[@wildflxwrr0628]

I don’t drink, but my brother’s friends that’s 9/10 is already starting to drink energy drinks. My friends actually wants me to drink, and they try to convince me when I say that I don’t want to wast money on it. Like why would I wast money on something that I don’t feel the need to have? Especially when it will not do me any good

[@civilwildman]

My sister-in-law drinks at least 3 a day/night. My brother (her husband) has a few a day 5 days a week. I wouldn't be surprised if one or both of them have a massive heart attack 10-20 years down the road. For all I know, one of them could have their heart practically burst out of their chest like bread out of a toaster. =/

[@squarepickle]

@Meng Hao Everyone knows smoking is bad too, but it wasn't until years later that we seen the long term effects and their frequency. Energy drinks have existed for just over 20 in the mainstream market, we have no idea what the long term effects are yet.

[@pokio55]

10 a day would kill u in a week/put u in hospital

[@McNugge.]

Imagine comparing energy drinks with cigarettes bro get real holy shit. Energy drinks ARE NOT unhealthy IF YOU DRINK THEM LIKE ANY SANE PERSON WOULD DO. If by that logic we might aswell just ban coke and coffee no? But naaaaah energy big baaad

[@LookItsSani]

I feel like my gen grossly neglected mental health to try being unique instead. Actually, we did and our parents treated it like it was nothing too. Now a bunch of us are fucked with bad habits that we can't change, mental health problems we can't get rid of and a constant sense of loneliness and pathlessness(?). I can only hope the new generations learn from us (I'm a '94)

[@jasonrustmann9876]

For the current gen I'd say it's the glorification of mental illness, seems every kid *has* to have something up with them these days

[@samuelmmmk181]

Yeah but it was the same for our parents. I'm from 95. The mental health shit only started to be addressed in our parents age.

[@canineuniversity1015]

94 birthdate, was given adderall at age 10, freaking age 10. And they wonder why I have addiction issues...its not like I was given a narcotic for my brain to develop around

[@TheStuckNorris]

Whats keeping you from changing bad habits exactly? Im gonna put will power on that list as well then.

[@hokimaki1234]

@@jasonrustmann9876 I think there are some other factors. Better understanding of neurodivergence means more people who would previously have gone undiagnosed get papers, people’s confirmation biases say “that’s so like me” whenever they read something about mental illness, and social alienation from modern technology helps other disorders (like anxiety disorder) develop. Obviously it’s an issue that there are some folks that make their issues their identity, and that’s a problem, but I don’t think it’s that much of an issue

[@MofoMan2000]

It'll be "Turns out car dependency and its associated infrastructure are bad for us." Cars should be a tool, one of many in a toolbox for getting around and going where you're going. Driving should always be an option, but there should be other options that are safe and comfortable and convenient as well. Cars aren't the problem, car DEPENDENCY is. If more people are using means of transportation other than cars, there will be less traffic for drivers to deal with, so it's a win for those who choose to drive or have to drive as well.

[@HyenaDandy]

Exactly. And it's a key point that the infrastructure needs to change to be less built around cars. Public transit is good. But if it's still built for cars, and transit is tacked on, they'll have the same problems as ever. I like driving. But I think if you ask anyone who enjoys driving, they'll tell you their favorite type is when You're on a highway or open road. Not cities and suburban streets.

[@NoName-mi8js]

@@HyenaDandy Yeah. It's just just that associated infrastructures encourage people only to drive, but that the car-centric infrastructures literally makes it significantly more difficult to travel in different ways, and forces people to use cars. The American suburb is the prime example. You are an hour away from work, any shopping, any park, and any school. There aren't enough population density (partially because how much space roads take up) to have any reasonable public transits either.

[@HyenaDandy]

@@NoName-mi8js Exactly. I honestly sometimes disagree with the idea that the infrastructure is 'car-centric'. I think it assumes people own cars, certainly. But I also think that quite often, it's built in a way that (intentionally or not) makes it worse on both car and driver. Sometime I want to calculate exactly how much money I spend on gas that gets used while the car is stationary, be that in traffic, waiting for a turn, letting people pull in/out. Even ignoring waiting at stop lights, which is a necessary safety practice, I know I've spent a TON of money on that. Even though the price increased over the last four-five years, my money spent on gas right now is about where it was pre pandemic purely because one awkward turn got replaced with a rotary and I no longer need to wait for an opening and just pray that the cars along the side of the street aren't hiding any incoming traffic from me. It's not car centric. If it was, there would be fewer potholes, more rotaries, and driveways would not back out right into major through ways. It's manufacturer and petroleum company centric.

[@Rob_Pap]

I don't have a driving permit and my wife stick it in my face almost twice a week

[@adoe2305]

Cars are only a problem to the government that wishes to control every aspect of our life, including our movement.

[@giuliamonegato5248]

Spending 10+ years of your life to learn things you don't like in ways that aren't made for your brain and focus only on remembering stuff just to get a job you hate and have a life spent focusing and worrying about money till you die is depressing and sad and isn't the way we're supposed to live.

[@quisquiliarum7710]

yeah human society outgrew the human part we've created a world none of us actually enjoy living in

[@Windrake101]

@@quisquiliarum7710 There are parts of it that are good. But we haven't begun to advance our humanity to match the level of our technology.

[@rickyroughton8098]

@@Windrake101 We started to when a guy... I wanna say the original Ford? changed the work week from six days to five while still paying his workers a living wage because equipment had advanced enough to make that feasible. Problem is, despite our ability to just straight-up automate many jobs we haven't adjusted wages or work weeks to compensate (nor have we adjusted wages for inflation in many parts of the country tbh) so we have less and less work to do but more and more people who need the work.

[@Mikamichae]

It’s not designed to benefit you lmao, it’s a business model, a really successful business model

[@Mikamichae]

@Takuto's Mustache I don’t understand how you think I’m trolling? Corporations make billions from the education system

[@master_ace]

My grandfather, who is a physicist is convinced thats its wireless headphones, especially now that over the last couple of years everyone got themselves some sort of earbuds. Something about the unknown effects of prolonged short-wavelength ultra-high-frequency radio waves being so close to the brain often and regularly of multiple years. Edit: youtube straight up did not notify me that I had 3.8k likes and 133 replies on this comment, lmao

[@TBoucher375]

They did studies where certain ones actually can cause issues. I'd research that a bit.

[@crystaledwards8854]

I never use earbuds! They’re too uncomfortable and I never listen to music or anything where I would have to have it ‘quiet’. At home I just listen to music out loud. I care about my hearing as I had a short bout of tinnitus, and I can tell you that you never ever want to experience that.

[@alexmason5521]

Seems like you know nothing about radio waves at all.

[@Animefan_7153-0]

@@crystaledwards8854 yeah if you have earbuds then you have to tone down the volume so only you can hear but at home... *full volume*

[@blindedjourneyman]

I get headaches from wireless earbuds so I always buy wired. The best headphones and earbuds I get are from thrift stores humorously. I am not saying its radiation its just I ALWAYS get bad headache from wireless. So ill stick to wired

[@tylerhilpisch7850]

What about kids raising themselves on phones/screens since their parents had kids to save the marriage.

[@thelonelyduck7267]

Jesus I couldn't imagine making an entire human being just so you could fix your own mistakes

[@Zenaidafromthemoon]

Kid who had to raise themselves here! Originally I used the IPad so I could look up new things, now I’m an addict (I’ll edit this later with more details)

[@synergyexe7119]

i was one of those kids, i think, way before tablets and smartphones (born in 1993), when I got a big chunky beige computer with CRT monitor in my room, I was on that thing every day

[@wowsuchname1939]

Pretty much everything. In the hyper consumeristic society we live in where profit is put over anything else, anything you can imagine. Saw something the other day about a nutritionist who was pushing ‘the only food which is bad for you is out of date food’ and it turns out she works for Mondelez. But yea, the developmental issues is a huge one. As somebody with ADHD life is literally hell at times. The idea that we are almost conditioning kids to have issues like this shocks me every time I think about it.

[@Aethryx]

Also the sitting 8 hours a day thing, they forgot to mention the much more immediate danger, known as Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Sitting for long periods of time can cause blood clots to form in the deep veins inside your legs, which can then dislodge when you stand, travel to your lungs, and cause a pulmonary embolism, which is deadly without immediate emergency care.

[@fireflymiesumae]

The one about Facebook really got me. When I was a little younger I had a favorite KZbinr that seemed to live the perfect life I always wanted. She went to dance classes and wore the prettiest dresses with a wardrobe full of so many more stuff. Her house looked like it came from a fairytale and she was even engaged and happy and I kept wondering how some people were just born lucky. Turns out her husband used and abandoned her as soon as she was pregnant and now she's virtually homeless and jobless. I still love her but I was like Yikes. Her name is Yumi King.

[@rotteegher39]

@Your daddy dilf world is for sure is crazy

[@__-tp4tm]

Well, we all get lied to constantly. Perception changes over generations. Bred into cattle, step for step.

[@legrandduca687]

She's an exception, mot men wouldn't do that. He really is a shtty dude... I hope she's doing better and your views on men haven't been too damaged.

[@nikkim7038]

OMG!!! i used to watch her when i was a kid and hadn't thought about her in years so i ran to check her chanel and it's soooo sad, she barely gets any views now and she relies on donations from others 😢

[@tzisorey]

The discussion of hearing loss has made me wonder - have we adapted AirPod technology into hearing aids yet? Where you can take them out of your ear, put them in a little carry case, and charge them while they're in your pocket - or do people still have to buy ludicrously expensive hard-to-find batteries that they have to physically swap out?

[@apricotcat1542]

My grandpa had re chargable batteries but not a charging case like airpods do, that's a good question 🤔

[@savvivixen8490]

I hope the FDA approved hearing aid companies get their act together and capitalize on the idea before some weirdo privatized conglomerant messes up a great step forward.

[@108wee]

Its all motivatied by money, research and development is expensive and something apple can afford. Hearing aids are a medical aid which means all that money comes from insurance companies aka medical companies dont have alot of room to play around and be creative because nobody(insurance companies) wants to fund it.

[@tzisorey]

@@108wee True - but it's not rare for ability devices to have their research supplemented by the convenience they can offer able-bodied people, so I would expect to see the technology to trickle into the hearing-aid market *_eventually._*

[@CountingStars333]

Batteries.

[@majordabalert]

I think calling this life “easy” is contradictory to it being obviously depressing. Sure we aren’t hunting and gathering but we’re struggling to find purpose and passion in a world we’re forced to work these boring jobs

[@edmundKemp]

Yeah, I didn't agree with that opinion too.

[@purplecat4977]

If anyone is reading this, the sugar thing is half right. I'm allergic to corn everything, including corn syrup, but found this out late in life. When I cut out all corn syrup (which is most sweetened things in the US) I lost like 20 lbs, and this was WITH being freed of crippling nausea. I have terrible self-control and my eating habits are a mess, but I'm a normal weight for my height (and thinner than I was in high school), while friends who try to watch what they eat are much heavier, and I think it's the corn syrup. Before you try keto or whatever weird diet program, cut out everything with corn syrup for a month and see if that does it for you.

[@sarahn3394]

I think my son has something similar. Anything with a extreme amount of sugar/corn syrup and he doesn't react well. We have cut it out of just about everything we eat.... I have lost at least 25 lbs. Now I'm watching myself because I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and I'm trying to figure out how to feel good while eating what's healthy for me with my issues.. I've lost even more since then. We are extremely low in sugars. Like other parents hate me because I don't allow him to have a lollipop and they refuse to try to understand, but it's all of us, not just him...

[@p.singson3910]

Allergy and Americans are close cousins.

[@sarahn3394]

@@p.singson3910 I never thought about that, but I think you're right. I don't know many people that don't have allergies. Also it's important to note that the FDA approves anything that can make them money... So we are so screwed when it comes to the safety of the population.

[@cgutierrez2108]

@@p.singson3910 for many reasons. Food is abundant, access to different cultural cuisines and luxury to get it all delivered to your front doors. Too much of a good thing can't be good and we can't get enough of it

[@mileswalters2372]

You probably lost 20 lbs cause you consumed less calories when you stopped consuming corn syrup products

[@braydenjones4738]

Ever since I was maybe 6 I've been on various ADHD meds. Tried almost all of them over the course of my ENTIRE school career. None worked for very long. Now I do actually have ADHD and I do need medication to function, but I think that making children guinea pigs for psych meds instead of bettering special education and taking things like ADHD and other learning disabilities seriously was a huge mistake. Who even knows what being on stimulants for over a decade did to my brain while it developed the most.

[@KaraKubed]

I was on adhd meds for about half of 5th grade. I literally don’t remember anything from that period (idk if it’s cause I was younger or cause they fucked it up) so imma just say what my friends and family have told me. I’d have horrible mood swings, lock myself in my room for hours and cry, or just literally say nothing for days. It was horrible.

[@auberginemanproductions1608]

@@KaraKubed Those are side effects of many ADHD medicines, even for diagnosed individuals. It's horrible, but it's still unfortunately the best treatment we have (for more extreme cases).

[@joshuaroefs9279]

The problem is schools can't reasonably be expected to go through so much trouble for likely 1 or 2 kids (talking small towk obv) and medication is just insane anymore... my gf has it and she does a lot better without medication than with, she just needs a break more often than others

[@jimmybo0m]

wow

[@no_peace]

We as a species need to learn the difference between skill needs and support needs. People want to make little disabled kids the problem, fix the kid, instead of fixing the system so adults have to support the kid or use resources to accomplish things disabled people can't and often won't ever be able to do. Instead it's "try harder," "there's something wrong with you, this is your fault." All these issues come from that model. It's an issue with the system not with disabled kids (or adults) Like I don't like using wheelchairs as an example, I'm sorry, but they are visual and concrete. You can either tell a kid wheelchair user that they need to work harder on walking or you can give them a chair, help them use it, put ramps and platforms in place, have automatic doors... The person using the chair is not at fault because they can't force themself not to be disabled anymore. If they can't go somewhere it's because the place isn't designed properly In the US it has traditionally been way easier for people to tell us we need to fix ourselves (even though it's impossible) than has been for them to have even an iota of consideration for us

[@Zenaidafromthemoon]

The “Good grades or nothing” mindset amongst school administrators. I just got out of the psych ward after a suicide attempt and they want me back at school fully functioning tomorrow, the fuck- I just got out of the mental hospital and you want me to go back in full force. I am not mentally stable my guy

[@personwitharat9039]

I know how that feels last year apparently the school thinks I don't have a life and they want me to spend on the computer all fucking day even on the weekends and I got so frustrated and angry that I broke the computer and I had 2 mental breakdowns. After that shitty year I'm actually happy I have a job now. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

[@Zenaidafromthemoon]

@@personwitharat9039 same with you, hope you are doing well

[@barackosama1159]

I'm so sorry man, I hope everything gets better. I've been extremely suicidal but thankfully have found a way to pull myself up, and am currently trying to improve myself. We sympathize brother

[@monikamoon14]

Take as long as you need to recover. Your education can alway be recovered , and there's online uni at Coursera and some other free ones. But your sanity is precious. Fuck the school !

[@NathanRech]

that's why school shootings are a thing nowadays. they fuck kids up mentally and expect nothing in return.

[@jeremyronald]

The sugar one is very true. Former OTR trucker here, used ro drive for a big company that only hauled sugar in liquid and dry form, as well as dry flour. That's all we hauled. Corn syrup is literally poison; I've seen a bee get attracted to it and gave the bee a small drop on a toothpick and the bee died. And all food has sugar and they call it something else, even if the food is "sugar-free" and the additives and substitutes are even worse than basic sugar. If you look at the ingredients and see fructose, dextrose, mandrose, pelctose.... if the word rhymes with "gross" then it's a type of sugar. During COVID, when everyone else sat at home getting food delivered and not worked, I was working over 3x the hours and making absolute bank! But all the places I was going is where it really got to me; Coca Cola, Post, General Mills, Bug Juice, Aunt Mille's, Dr. Pepper, etc.... that shit I hauled was poison and I honestly feel awful for hauling it but the money was so damn good. Eat more meat and veggies, not as much bread. If you do want bread, stick with brioche style from France since it uses the absolute minimal amount of sugar and use salted butter instead of margarine to butter the bread and give it amazing flavor.

[@lachlanmc2335]

Yes we need more butter processed seed oils are going to be this generations margarine I tell you the way they make them....

[@calesnow9692]

you can blame the food corporations and the weak FDA regulations for that, there’s a good reason the rest of the world has much more robust food regulations and why to this day the FDA remains pillowfisted and sugar laced cereals are marketed as healthy.

[@TimpBizkit]

Corn syrup doesn't have the nutritional properties of honey but I can't imagine it killing bees outright, although you shouldn't replace all honey with it if running a hive. Same with sugar and humans. It's technically non toxic, and I think the meat and dairy industry are using sugar as a scapegoat for issues their foods cause (the insulin resistance is fat blocking insulin receptor sites, causing an inability to move sugar out of the blood quickly and to cells where it belongs). So I'm going to say fad diets like keto are damaging to health and actually we should be keeping fat as low as possible. I will agree that doughnuts, cake, crisps, chocolate and ice cream should have minimal place in our diet, but more to do with the high fat content than sugar, and you'll probably rack up more fat with sweet tasting fat foods, although savouries like chicken nuggets and quiche, pork scratchings, and big bags of roasted peanuts can rack up high fat stores as well. Also fat doesn't tend to make you feel full. Calorie for calorie it is far less filling than sugar and starch. Although full on keto diet can put the appetite to sleep, it is the body operating in a state of sickness and not true satiation. Another caveat with the sugar is that a lot of people also aren't drinking enough water, as when sugar stores it needs at least 3 parts water to go with it. Also, the average person eats so much fat that sugar isn't doing them any favours. The fat needs to come down to 10g a day ideally. It's no good having a load of cheese one meal and a load of soda the next. Obviously you can't live off just sugar as it's nutritionally speaking very incomplete.

[@lachlanmc2335]

@@TimpBizkit that's a lotta words care to back it up with a source *srrsly i looked at 5 articles for fat related insulin resistance and couldn't find any real data.) im not overturning my current nutritional knowledge without double blind testing my guy.

[@Ouchiness]

Hi! As a voracious reader myself, I realized that uh I can’t keep my attention on books anymore because I’m trying to read boring textbooks and not things that I like. If I read books I like, I don’t have trouble paying attention.

[@barackosama1159]

Same. Delayed gratification seems to be the key. Practice it however much you can. This means, no porn, no social media, limited youtube usage, and doing things that take a longer time, to build the mental energy and patience to read and do all of those time consuming academic activities. Fitness also helps because it creates discipline in your life, and combined with nutrition it simply improves your cognitive ability on a biological level. Here, for extra motivation, I'll give you a cookie 🍪 if you try :) You can do this! You can get back into reading! Dont give up on yourself and hope, but dont expect anybody but yourself to do all of the work

[@Oatmilk345]

@@barackosama1159 we got this!!

[@Sillimant_]

Re: the first one Everyone learns better when they're having fun. That's why you learn things about your favourite game much faster than most classes. There have been numerous studies and papers on the topic, it's already known having fun is the best way to learn

[@BLismylifethankstoquarantine]

1:04 at my old school last year bc of the pandemic we weren’t allowed to use shared equipment. Which makes sense, but the school had extra money in the budget and they decided to spend it on stuff like repainting the school and landscaping all of the different buildings. Even rebuilding one of them (which wasn’t falling apart, it was purely for appearances). Rather than spending the money on academic supplies. I was in a photography class, everyone paid the fees we normally would, but didn’t have access to any of the same equipment. We couldn’t use the cameras, we only had access to photoshop remotely on our own computers during school hours (which meant for most of us that if we wanted to get any work done, we had work through our lunch breaks and during the little bit of free time we had available in classes). We had to take pictures using our phones and bc everyone had different phones, some people’s pictures would turn out better than others (we would have assigned prompts and due to limitations in the amounts of settings cameras on phones have and more technical stuff it just wasn’t possible to take a decent picture for the prompt using certain phones). So whenever we complained the teacher and the school would use the pictures that turned out good as an excuse to say “you just aren’t trying hard enough”. I was in other art classes and faced similar problems in each. One of them was much worse, but from what I hear, some of the other students in that class didn’t have as hard of a time as me, so I think that one may just be bc the teacher was a b!tch to me. Edit bc i forgot to mention it: for most of the year we ended up just going over basic photography lessons like angles, framing, color, etc. the same stuff that 1st year photography students learn. I was in my 4th year of photography classes.

[@rubikx6097]

Yea I had an animation class last year but our school had the same rule about shared equipment so instead of actually learning graphic design and animation. We were subjected to random busy work papers and forced to watch freshman drama club

[@ThunderStruck15]

@@rubikx6097 wow, they could have done something like old school cell work, and instead did that. Sucks.

[@scrubs3050]

wow, that must be frustrating

[@YukariAkiyama]

Bro, my school spent the budget on GOLF CARTS! FUCKING GOLF CARTS!

[@rubikx6097]

@@YukariAkiyama wow what a waste

[@ethangc081]

-education becoming more focused on testing and less on fun and actual learning -life being too easy -social media -sleep deprivation -supplements -stress in my opinion were the biggest

[@OR56]

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.

[@vonakakkola]

what i also don't like about modern society is that everything don't let you to have any physical stress, but who cares about how mental stress you actually have

[@Baconator5642]

"too easy" my ass, that's actual bullshit, i had to scrape by on the skin of my teeth and barely survived a white trash ghetto, people are ungratefull as fuck for what they have and dont realize how many people GENUINELY live in poverty and can barely sustain themselves, life isnt easy for the majority of people in the world

[@soupyweb]

“Life being too easy” what is that even supposed to mean the point is to make life easier and easier

[@OR56]

@@soupyweb That is a bad perspective to have. I feel like people have lost the appreciation for the journey, and doing something difficult, and succeeding.

[@nuclearsimian3281]

Living with an easy life should not be mistaken with "not paid enough to survive, so you don't do much or can't do much about what's going on."

[@KRYMauL]

That's not true being a shepherd seems like it would be a great way of life, you tend to your sheep with your herd dog and make cheeses and crackers for meals.

[@sarina1234ful]

@@KRYMauL until you have to drain an abscess on one of your sheep because the vet can't get out to you for a while. Barf lol

[@KRYMauL]

@@sarina1234ful I was thinking old school preindustrial shepherd.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@KRYMauL Yeah those sheep got abscesses too

[@fellipeparreiras4435]

@@DeathnoteBB This homie really wen't ahead and said pre-industrial shepherds had a better, more fulfilling life than people today do? Lmao

[@lady_halibugo0250]

5:41 has me in tears, I was a shielded child, and when I was given that freedom I went too far with it. I'm paying the price, but now that I'm trying to make up and do better about it. I still get told I can't do many of the things I was told to I'm supposed to do, either because it doesn't suit the people around me, or because something unexpected happens, and the opportunities are ripped away, really it gets to you at some point. Sorry for the rant that just really got me lmao

[@TrainerAQ]

Same here. I've even considered breaking up with my parents for good cause of it. Just looking back on it, I think about so many hardships I went through that could have been avoided if my parents were just honest to me, that the world isn't just sunshine and rainbows, instead of treating me like their little baby.

[@SunshineTheLover]

easy life isnt the problem its the fact that the work itself is increasingly less gratifying for the people doing it because we simply dont benefit from it like we used to

[@goofyhouse4122]

Also a lack of purpose too. Why do we struggle and toil for years on end? For more products and stuff to consume? People nowadays don’t have families, don’t believe in God, and don’t have any sense of nationalism. They simply work to consume and then die, it makes them sad whether they’re aware of it or not

[@ghostspore3163]

@THEnelsonbruhs People of the internet age just prefer to have proof if we decide to devote our lives to something. We are just slightly more resourceful animals and a lot of things considered "sinful" are just basic animal instinct.What makes your God more "correct" than another person's? I personally don't believe in God anymore because he's given me nothing to believe in and feels about as real as any fiction character I see in media

[@hunterlawrence3573]

The problem is people deciding "success" will make them happy, when all their really doing is moving an unreasonable goal post they can never achieve. Following your dreams is great, but don't lose sight of what really matters in life.

[@sacredbeastzenon]

@Lt. JoeAnimatez Based.

[@hunterlawrence3573]

@Lt. JoeAnimatez That helps people feel more satisfied how?

[@TrainerAQ]

I agree. No one should ever look at my private life and use that to decide if I should be a pilot, police officer, whatever. My private life and my work life are very separate worlds.

[@cousinzeke4888]

A police officer has the authority to kill people, your character is the most important thing to look at.

[@LeeTwentyThree]

@@cousinzeke4888yea I agree with the comment but that might be the worst example

[@redblue4127]

This is such an abysmally horrible and irresponsible take lol. Especially for those jobs where other people's lives arr at risk. You are a human being whose personal life defines and affects who you are day to day.

[@discoveryoutdoorskcfishing236]

Mental health problems. Everybody is so busy trying to write everything off as people being unique that we are forgetting that much of these things that we consider uniqueness is a mental health issue.

[@mickroyster6442]

Yeah these “communities” such as obese community, mental disorder community, hard of hearing community, is so bad. It’s not like you’re less of a person for having these but having them means you need to get help and make sure you have a long, healthy, happy life

[@Nina-or8ni]

I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve seen a mix of things on social media as of lately where a lot of people are advocating for taking care of your mental health but with younger kids, it’s trendy to be mentally ill. My ADHD was absolutely ruining me, and I didn’t even know that it was a factor in my life until I sought professional help and got a diagnosis. It’s not fun or quirky or unique to have mental health issues, it gets very ugly and it’s something we should be taking seriously.

[@WobblesandBean]

^ Thiiiiis

[@helenadelapena8678]

yesss. i see a lot of people justifying their actions with the “i have x mental health issue” and hey, i can understand but it doesn’t give you an excuse to be shitty to people, in any case it should give you an excuse to work on yourself more and i say this being a person with mental health issues that thanks to all the internet discourse on uniqueness i felt that my bad actions towards people were always justified for my whole teenage years

[@falquicao8331]

Literally never in history there was such focus on mental health than there's now. How the heck would it be relevant to the question?

[@freewind6368]

The first one though, it still boggles my mind that these days school focus more on test grades then on actual student improvements and learning, like if your are memorizing something it’s different from actually learning it, like man, they always say that shit in school, but look now, they are just forcing memorization and cramming more than learning, it’s going to make those kids hate all those subjects because they are being forced to memorize it instead of learning and enjoying it. Note: I’m 17, gone through the forced math, science, and reading through middle and somewhat of elementary, and now I grow to hate reading, dislike math, still love science though, I can’t even read a lot while drivers manual and it gout spending a week or so trying to pick up the book, that’s how much school made me hate reading. We really need to change our gen idea shoving knowledge down kids throats is a going to benefit then, not only is that going to make it so they learn it was slower, but they also make it so they going to hate that subject. Hell nearly all of my early school life(elementary) knowledge was forced down my throat and when I didn’t get it, they would call me stupid, and force more knowledge down my throat, I suffered through 4 years of before and after school “help” and 4 years of summer school(which were useless, no help what so ever, was pretty much like daycare), hell at one point I had a teach tell a room is students that we were a disappointment because we didn’t know our times tables, added with before and after school, summer school, and standardize testing, I was showing no improvement, at least to them, which made subconsciously feel like I’m a dumbass or have some form of mental disease, still affects me today, but mostly in the reading department, the rest I have fixed somewhat over the years, but my younger years were really not fun, but it was not just school, but my home life as well, which is a whole other story. Though good news, after I reach middle school and got away from that bullshit course at my elementary school, middle school was way better, well the course and they way they taught was complete shit, I mean the math classes were stretched out subjects that could be finished in half a year, but they stretched it out to a full year, the science class was basically an interesting facts video, like no actual science, just interesting facts, but the main caviot was that they didn’t bother us, if we didn’t do well, they didn’t give a shit, so they gave us room to grow on our own, which was the great spark for me, and I grew smarter and smarter, and by the time I’m in high school(I.E right now) in multiple honors classes and have all As, so kids don’t need more knowledge shoved down there throats, they just need time to development and take in said knowledge, for me, I had all of that there, they just didn’t give me time to digest it(sorry for long rant). Edit: forgot to add, I also suffered through 4 years of ELA, which was basically a course to separate the “dumb” kids/ the kids who needed “help” from the “normal” or “smart” kids, the course was basically them dragging a bunch of kids into the hallway and saying that same thing in class that we didn’t get in the first place over and over again. Thank for whoever was listening to this rant.

[@freewind6368]

@Elliott Holahan it will probably be fixed after a few years of rising child mental health cases and an increase is teen/child obesity, but I am truly sorry about that.

[@kevinmclarkey621]

It started with bush jr pushing for no child left behind and mandatory testing for dumbness aka just memorizing shit

[@fluorescent5120]

@Elliott Holahan Our school doesn’t even have a proper P.E classes. All we did is sit down, did the mile test once as for mandatory grades for the class, and a few laps around the school every other day when the teacher felt like taking us out. And if you wanted to use the heavy equipment like the ones you would see in the gyms, there was another separate class for that and you’ll need to either sign up for the class or do a schedule change ( its also in a very small room, and there’s only two rooms of them, meaning very limited space for other kids to sign up). If anything, from my knowledge of my classmates from my school, they hate P.E

[@l_am_Cloud]

Student board people get more money for children getting good grades on SAT’s. That’s capitalism for you. Rich people wanting more money by destroying peoples lives.

[@inconnn]

bruh i was gifted in elementary school so i got honors classes so in 6th grade ela my teacher thought it would be a good idea to show my unfinished homework to the whole class because i never learned to do it in elementary. maybe she thought that somehow i would start doing better in her class but it actually just made me cry and make me worse at doing my homework and also just hate that teacher. then i tell my parents like months after (it was actually very traumatic to be honest) and they just justify it like it's ok to do that. like no that's the kind of stuff that made me depressed for not living up to my gifted status in elementary school.

[@Aethryx]

Agree with the social media one. Too many users have had their entire lives ruined because someone didn't like one of their posts and decided to dig up and publish all their real life so strangers could harass them and get them fired from their job, all because someone didn't like their opinion on something.

[@BaconSizzleWasTaken]

I was gonna make a joke about “we do a little trolling” but

[@noone3305]

this was mentioned a lot but giving those little brats an iphone the second they pop out of the womb is going to be detrimental. i was a “ipad kid” i guess. i was given an ipad for my 9th birthday. at first it wasn’t so bad, all my friends had them too and we would make movies together. we didn’t use them 24/7, we’d just use them to make silly videos together and maybe play “talking tom” occasionally if anyone remembers those games. then we discovered social media. and you can imagine what happened next. everyone had an iphone by the time i reached middle school. the kids i babysit, one of which was 8 years old, bragged to me he was getting an iphone for christmas and told me all his friends had iphones. all of it is fucking insane and it’s going to be extremely bad for the future of my generation.

[@PictureGame]

15:31 I read the whole Hunger Games book series within a few days and I haven't properly sat down and read a book in 2-3 years and I think that playing visual novel games and reading big text posts on the internet may have helped me keep my attention span,along with drawing and watching 10+ minute videos because with Vines and Tik Tok becoming popular may have ruined young people's attention span with the short films

[@Sparkshot99]

I am the only child at my school who even likes reading :(

[@theoneandonly2359]

@@Sparkshot99 keep on reading its nice to know things

[@mimispring95]

Its so sad to see schools continuing to cut out art programs. I still remember we had to take out money from our own pockets to help our art teachers bring in more art supplies such as paint brushes, paint, clay, charcoal, etc. This was in the '10s when I was in high school (my school was considered one of the 'Top' schools 🙄) This was also around the same time when our former governor Rick Scott wanted to cut funds on arts and cultural programs in schools. It still makes me sad that a lot of people within higher institutions still undervalue art 😕

[@huhnocorn7397]

art is literally a human activity it shouldn’t be valued as just a work skill! as someone who’s studying to become a professional artist when i see people not doing art because they are bad at it it makes me so sad because our society has trained us to think that we have to be good at something to have fun so we get so afraid that we are bad at it and think people will judge us for it so we stop doing it but that’s horrible because these things are apart of our culture and **species** i see this with things dance and music too :(

[@omniphage9391]

i mean fascists dont like art that they didnt specificly allow, something about making people think.

[@hiiambarney4489]

It's because they aren't even hiding the fact anymore that schools are there to institute labor workers. Art doesn't fit that category at all and may be contradictory to their goals.

[@lizerdspherex]

Man, imagine a good portion of today's generations' lives being recorded just as much as Chris-Chan's.

[@lego007guym8]

Don't fucking say that dude. This comment sections already depressed me enough.

[@syasyaishavingfun]

Who is that?

[@101Volts]

@@syasyaishavingfun _Do you _*_REALLY_*_ want to know?_ Christian Weston Chandler, born 1982. He's... Not someone who gets forgotten easily, but there's a better way to talk about him: the 59 episode (and counting) series documenting his whole life. Each episode is about 40 minutes long. Search "Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History, Part 1" if you want to go there. It starts out as young and innocent, but... Um... Chris' life happened, and I don't know if he would accept help, or of he thinks he needs it. He's just topped it all off with an unspeakable act against his Mom, which has landed him in jail - or he was tricked to say it or something, I don't know. I don't think I can accurately describe the enormity of just how messed up he looks to anyone who has spent time attempting to understand him. I don't hate him, but... How exactly does his mind work, if it works at all?

[@tiamystic]

@@syasyaishavingfun He (g)raped his elderly mother with dementia and went to jail this year. He wrote letters from there and thinks he’s Jesus Christ reincarnated now. He created the Sonichu comic book.

[@Sly9192]

@@syasyaishavingfun I'm sorry you asked

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Unlike the generations before us, we were constantly warned about the dangers of vaping, and nobody listened. It's not water vapor. Especially if you get to the point where you get upset when you don't have it in your hands. But hey, people aren't addicted, they can stop anytime.

[@MrHack4never]

Honestly, I think it's cost-cutting and similar ideas about making things cheaper without considering the consequences of the lower price I'm not really talking about, say, electric cars getting cheaper and more common, it's stuff like fast fashion and schools getting less funding because "kids can see the forest on their Smartphones, so why pay for school trips?" and similar short-term solutions for how to keep more money

[@Tinf0iI]

i think people who complain about fast fashion often forget it's the only way some people can afford clothes.

[@kiefinity162]

The bigger problem is, things are build for first world countries and the cheap stuff are still to expensive for poor countries where people earn 300-400 dollars a month

[@theclockworksolution8521]

I agree that cost-cutting is bad, but I highly doubt it’ll ever leave society as a whole. There’s way too much temptation to do it, it doesn’t matter if you’re capitalist, socialist, or monarchist, all these types of societies have had problems with cutting corners. I don’t think it’s going away.

[@MrHack4never]

@@Tinf0iI I don't mind poor people buying fast fashion, the problem is more about how it's made

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

And most of the reason objects get cheap is by taking away your countries jobs and shoving them into a country with lackluster labor laws and even worse environmental ones. The stuff is only cheaper in concept.

[@wizardthecat9808]

I’m 22. Started hearing tinnitus at 19 due to loud music. Around a year ago I noticed that I could hear people taking from the left side fine, but struggled to understand on my right side, so now I have hearing loss in one ear (only one ear as far as I know. Teens, don’t listen to loud music, it’s more dangerous than you think and can harm you younger than you think. Just turn it down.

[@byersxxkarate5177]

I'm honestly terrified. I'm 19 right now and for a whole week now I've been experencing Tinnitus. It seems like it's getting better with each day, healing I think. But I can still hear the ringing. I've listened to a lot of loud music in the past but I'm pretty sure it was Chrome music lab that actually fucked up my ears. I heard a loud sound on there (1 week ago) I'm filled with Anxiety because I just want it all to heal. I want to listen to music at a healthy volume. Music is my therapy and I don't know what I'm gonna do if it is permanent.

[@byersxxkarate5177]

I'm so sorry about your hearing, I'm praying for you.

[@wizardthecat9808]

@@byersxxkarate5177 In my experience the ringing gets louder when you focus on it. Anxiety can also make it louder. So my advice is to find something that takes your mind off it, and try not to worry too much. That’s what helped me anyways. It made me anxious at first too, but from what I’ve read, noise induced tinnitus doesn’t get worse as long as you stay within safe sound ranges. So turn the music down and use noise cancelling headphones in loud places, and it shouldn’t get any worse.

[@wizardthecat9808]

@@byersxxkarate5177 Also a lot of tinnitus is temporary, so it might even go away entirely. But mine didn’t. So even if it gets better please be careful with your ears. They are very valuable and shouldn’t be abused.

[@byersxxkarate5177]

@@wizardthecat9808 Thank you, your advice helps me a lot. I will follow gentle music listening rules and will be very careful. Also should I worry about a concert I'm going to On Oct 20th. I'm going to a concert, I want to go but I'm unsure about my ears. I'm going to be wearing ear plugs the whole time but I'm worried it'll make it worse. Like how you said about how I should stay within safe sound ranges. Should I still go?

[@rayquazaregice900000]

I'm a '95. I do agree with the person that talked about the harmful effects of smoking weed and smoking in general. My biological mom was 18 when she had me and she smoked pot frequently. Unbeknownst to her this would cause me to have a handful of issues when I was born (supposed to be born in December but instead September). I had bleeding in the brain, collapsed lung, developmental delays, ASD, ADD, asthma, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I weighed 18oz when I was born. Was taking eight different kinds of medication just to stabilize the issues. I feel that anything that relates to smoking (whether it be vaping, smoking cigarettes, tobacco, weed, etc) will have long lasting effects in our bodies and unfortunately we're all brainwashed into thinking all of these aren't so bad. It may not happen now but people don't think about the long-term effects. I just find it sad how things are going nowadays.

[@Mortablunt]

Bruh everyone knows tobacco is bad for you. But there is a ton of propaganda about how weed is miracle medicine without any downsides.

[@josh2011miller80]

That children’s’ play one at the beginning made my heart sink, I think that one might be part of what tears down society.

[@therustynickle4772]

I’m not a teacher, but as an aunt of a 9 year old child who can hardly even spell their own name, I can say writing (and reading too) has already been completely cut out.:/ But anytime I try and help, I’m told it’s normal and they’ll learn over time and I’m forcing them to grow up too fast..? What- Edit: She’s doesn’t have a disorder of any kind that prevents her from identifying letters and words. If she can at least read off the alphabet, I think that should be a sign

[@regann7227]

Lol I'm in 11th and I honestly rely on auto correct a bit too much

[@Just_Moon2004]

@coolkid1374 -Oof fail strikethrough-

[@mothergoose9383]

That's parent failure. They didn't read to and with their kid. We started immediately and by age three, she could read and for sentences. We also didn't use baby talk. Another thing that helped was sign language. None of us are deaf, but it's much easier for a small baby to sign that they are hungry than it is for them to say it. HUGE help.

[@movingchannels2203]

@@mothergoose9383 And of the parents are too busy with work?

[@beth8775]

@@movingchannels2203 Even working parents can spend 10 minutes reading their child a story once a day. That's a lot better than not reading at all. If you don't see your kid enough for that, how do you have a bond at all. It can also be delegated sometimes to, say, siblings or grandparents.

[@lolglolblol]

everyone already knows this and I'm sure it's also in the video, but the extent to which plastic trash is polluting the Earth is mind boggling

[@GC-fj4lc]

Scientists are finding microplastics in fetuses, meaning plastics are definitely in our food

[@Psychosomatic63]

When scientists managed to get down to the marina trench they found a plastic bag even the most isolated spots on the earth are suffering from plastics

[@calebunruh6245]

As a homeschooled kid, I definitely agree that kids learn more from play, I remember my mom trying to get me to learn math from a book and I hated it and didn’t understand but then she started giving me random math questions while we were out and I started actually trying to figure it out and if I couldn’t I would WANT to figure out how to do that math, never try and force someone to do anything, have an approach that makes them want to learn because anything worth learning has a way of making people want them to, Also my cousin was a super sheltered child and she is literally always scared of people, I do understand that people that are biologically born female on average have to be more scared of strangers than people biologically born male, but she’s so scared of strangers to the Point that she refuses to walk down the street out of a male view, it’s really sad to watch.

[@josephinenilsson1541]

Smart phones and social media without a shred of a doubt.

[@sonsauvage]

A lot of my peers, late 20's early 30's, smoke weed to cope with life and/or regulate their emotional response to things. Leaves a lot of people stunted as far as furthering emotional development. I don't consider that healthy. Marijuana benefits from great PR but it most certainly is common to see it being abused.

[@beepobeepo]

people below the age of 25 shouldnt smoke weed and it shouldnt be used as a replacement for therapy

[@theoneandonly2359]

@@beepobeepo I'm 19 started at 14 I know I know but damn I feel numb but I guess that's just life haha

[@fpsoccer9791]

3rd grade. "Wow you're so smart!" 5th grade. "Good job, you're really smart for your age" 8th grade. "I understand you're passing the tests, but your grades are falling behind because you aren't doing the homework. You're really smart. Don't waste it" 10th grade. "Hey, you need to do your work. You are falling behind." 12th grade. "So. The best I can do is if you complete the last three assignments, I can give you a passing grade. You're lucky that because of COVID, the school board only requires 3 math credits to graduate now." Being gifted is false. The only thing that is true is that people learn at different speeds and are able to understand things in different ways. That is not "gifted". That is being an individual. While I think it is okay for there to be accelerated programs, we need to throw away the thinking that gifted children do not need help. I never learned/built the habits for me to succeed in school because I was never taught. I soaked up the material like a sponge. Until that sponge became so full of water that I literally became useless. Any parents out there, please encourage your young children to have fun outside of academics because schools are increasingly fazing out "fun" as part of school. It is now a chore. It is no longer the smartest people who become the most successful, but the most mentally strong and stable.

[@the_expidition427]

Your child isn't as special as everyone told you Sharkquelia

[@imnotyourunicorn91]

Agreed. Currently I'm working on my mental health. I should have started this back in high school.

[@harshmalhari8519]

Holy shit, this comment was like I was looking into a mirror.

[@MountSpacely]

nice. very thought-provoking observation.

[@davianthule2035]

NGL op, there's a pretty decent chance you have ADHD, the "your smurt but also lazy" story is literally the stereotype of the inattentive Variant of ADHD

[@duloth5518]

At this point, in much of the US at least, just being able to afford to have a house or apartment for you or your family is successful, and often requires working multiple jobs that require that blood sweat and tears.

[@harmfulmelody5958]

people also have no concept of having a budget so they can afford what they actually need without 'needing' to work 2-3 jobs.

[@theclockworksolution8521]

@@harmfulmelody5958 Yeah, honestly, I think one of the major contributing factors to people who think they need to work too much to get by us that they don’t know how to budget what money they do have, because they aren’t taught to. At least 3 of the people I know who are trying to work 2 jobs could easily manage on one if they stopped spending so much all the time. I realize that there are cases where people are actually budgeting and still need that much work, but as a poor person, most of the poor people around me just really do not know how to save their money.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

the fault of megacorporations and the unreasonability of suburban development in the first place. Apartments not so much, more the fault of overpopulation.

[@DelliGaming]

And now I'm having a panic attack 🙃 Thanks Daniel

[@matheussanthiago9685]

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 the top 10% consumes more than the bottom 50% "overpopulation" is laughable compared to inequality

[@GHOST13500]

On the topic of public education declining, it isn’t a mistake. It’s a very well formed and working plan. Do I have direct proof? No and I won’t demand you believe me, but along with a lot of logical points I do have, I leave you with this quote to start anyone’s journey into the research, which leads to a lot more than just the education system: “I want a nation of workers, not thinkers.” - John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil; the world’s first billionaire.

[@DiegkBiel-lc3gt]

He was not the first billionaire that would be king Mansa Musa of I think the Mali Empire (might be Ghana)

[@G0ldbl4e]

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education." Roger Freeman, adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan

[@thedemolitionsexpertsledge5552]

@@DiegkBiel-lc3gtI’m fairly sure Mansa Musa ended up ruining the economies of the countries he donated the massive sums of money to

[@kiwikiwi2483]

Oh shit. That first one is scarily valid and is already happening.

[@tuesdaywithjisoo8395]

Completely agree with the first one. Being in school you can really see the behaviour issues first hand, the amount of people who have said to me "sorry I'm just going through a depressing time" is shocking and I'm not even 14 yet. In my school depending on when you arrive to school is how long of a morning break you get (mine is long because I take the bus, mine is like 20 minutes. Not to mention at this point it'll be 8:20am and i'll have been up since 7am) we start school at 8:45am and some people I know literally arrive minutes before this time so they can get more VITAL sleep time. We have 3 morning classes (each class is 50 minutes. Remember they are expecting us to be fully functioning and wide awake at 8:45am and do whatever they tell us to do) then a 15 minute break. Then we have our next 1 or 2 classes. (if it's Wednesday, Thursday or Friday we only have 1 class after break but if it's Monday or Tuesday we have 2) Then we have lunch which is 40 minutes (LESS THAN THE CLASS TIME. Which you may think is decent but considering the fact that 80% of students go out to the local supermarket for lunch, (yes we are allowed to do that) it's kinda a ridiculous time. It takes real skill to walk alll the way there, wait in the line for food, wait in the checkout line, then leave and try and eat it all before your late) after lunch we have 2 more classes. Depending on the day we either have 6 or 7 classes. The days with 6 classes are from 8:45am to 2:40pm and the days with 7 classes are from 8:45am to 3:30pm. In every single school day (around 6 hours in school) we only get 55 minutes for break. That's only 5 minutes longer than a normal class. I mean I know some places have it worse but jeez, kids aren't built to sit behind a desk and write for 6 hours you know? We have child labour laws for a reason.

[@Likeaworm]

I was born in 1999 and I feel like I was in the last generation to go knock on your friends door and see if they can play. I would literally go around the neighborhood and round all the boys up and cause chaos. Good times!

[@amberspark9434]

I’m from a younger generation and honestly I wish I got that experience. As a kid I wasn’t even allowed outside in the front yard unsupervised. My parents were too afraid someone would call the cops.

[@marmedalmond9958]

@@amberspark9434 so basically. Its the adults who dont want the kids to play out

[@lambykin842]

@@marmedalmond9958i mean it’s quite warranted or atleast it’s understandable from parents view as it’s simply not as safe as it used to be kidnappings, rapes, murders happen so often people just don’t want to risk their kids by letting them out

[@connor43057]

@@lambykin842No

[@BlackTheBerserker]

@@lambykin842 Honestly though, the thing is, while crime rates went up a little post pandemic, fact of the matter is, we live in a much safer world than previous decades. Even the 60's, which had lower violent crime rates, keep in mind the Civil Rights movement was in the 60's, so I guarantee a lot of violent crime got brushed under the rug. Even with SA, keep in mind, at least here in the US, domestic violence and SA by a spouse was not taken more seriously until the 70's and 80's, and now we take it more seriously than ever and many are even advocating for us to become more aware even when men are the victims. The thing is, the world is safer in most western countries, it's just we feel less safe and the media is more incentivized to use fear to boost clicks and ratings. Now, don't get me wrong, one thing previous decades definitely had way better than us was economic mobility and ability to make money and have a decent standard of living, but crime by and large isn't what it used to be, it's just parents are far more aware of it and fear it much more.

[@berkesinanyetkin5722]

a friend of mine told me that we can't really research the effects of microplastics because we can't find a control group.

[@dandroid_]

Idk if it’s just where I live, but it’s ASTOUNDING to me how little I see kids playing outside now. I can drive around residential neighborhoods for hours on end and maybe only see 3-4 kids playing outside, and the parks are desolate places only used for dog walkers and joggers. The other day I was walking to my friends house through a park, and literally saw like 3 kids just sitting at the top of the playground staring mindlessly at their phones watching tiktoks. To each their own, but that felt like some black mirror shit😳😂

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

Frfr. A lot of times my kids were the only kids on the playground EVEN DURING THE PANDEMIC!

[@saintofkildas]

No, they are just in the backyards of the world due to the over controlling helicopter parents

[@alenasenie6928]

Vapping, is literally the same but people think it is harmless somehow just because it has different chemicals.

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

E cigarettes too. That shit still has nicotine which is the chemical that makes ciggies so addictive

[@wonderwend1]

There are already cases of EVALI.

[@creature2479]

@@IWantToStayAtYourHouse Sure, Nicotine is addictive but the vaping action itself is much better for you than smoking

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

@@creature2479 fyi theres no long term studies on vaping bc its so new. Who knows what effects vaping has on your lungs 20 years in the future

[@creature2479]

@@IWantToStayAtYourHouse I know that, and I didn't say it's safe, I said it wasn't as harmful

[@pencil2680]

Off topic but I would just like to show what my teachers told me: Algebra 2 teacher: “ I’ll be providing the graph paper so no need to buy some” The next day My human body studies teacher: “you should all have graph paper because of your math classes so I won’t be providing them” It’s just been on my mind for a bit

[@cronical246]

"Living an easy life" guy kinda missed the point. People are struggling just to be able to afford food and shelter and there is no satisfaction. The goal is to try and escape the constant grind in a society that demands more and more but delivers less.

[@louisarius9672]

Obsession with being successful/unique/different/ambitious, too. There should be more emphasis on being happy with what you like to do. Some people just want simple, peaceful lives.

[@arielgalles2107]

Lack of sleep answers are so true. I have mild ADHD symptoms on a normal day. I'm very hyperactive, I can't focus on one thing most of the time unless I'm hyperfixating, and give myself an existential crisis Everytime I try to be productive. When I've gotten less than six hours of sleep I do all of that and also have anxiety attacks with the smallest of triggers, my ability to focus is exponentially worse, and if I'm not ranting incoherently I'll be completely silent because I just had a moral crisis because of something I did last week. Added to that, I'm far sighted, so my glasses prescription is dodgy, so I can't see if my eyes aren't focused.

[@nickcampbell5626]

Earbuds with noise cancelling are amazing because I can get completely immersed in whatever I'm listening to as quiet as I like.

[@ricardopaez1745]

I think social media is a problem, and anonymity on the internet That constant seek for external validation, and the "trolling" that some people do despite being addressed to someone with clear problems and insecurities is the new form of mental wear out we are all experiencing

[@CircusFoxxo]

Ok boomer

[@atomictraveller]

either that, or the universal denial that freemasons are fucking all your kids until they're gay "oh disney club 33 how cute no problems here!"

[@PoiyoLmao]

@@CircusFoxxo Bruh

[@roberttramone9967]

I use to be a troll, but trolling use to mean "battles of wit" now trolls just trash talk and they don't even have fun anymore, they just spite fight each other and noone laughs anymore. Trolling sucks now. It really does. Also trolls nowadays are practically always projecting, and at some point I think, (sometimes say) "I wanna play a game, I don't have time in life to be your therapist"

[@ricardopaez1745]

@@roberttramone9967 yeah, that's why I use "'trolling'", real trolls used to be clever, now it seems they only exploit people's insecurities because they have nothing else to say

[@mattmurphy5805]

I miss the days when little kids watched pbs kids, not KZbin

[@ayogothitbyabuss6009]

And when they did watch KZbin they watched baby stuff not sssniperwolf or sssundae

[@Icewind007]

I wish I could have watched KZbin when I was a kid.

[@ribbons8678]

Mr rogers neighborhood was really good tbh when I was a kid is watch nickelodeon, disney and Nick at night when there was old 50's and 70's sitcoms those where the highlight of my day. Loved I love lucy, bewitched, family ties, happy days etc. Sadly they only had them for older adults at 12 ish to I think 4 or 5am than Nick jr came on. All night binge watching old tv shows I couldn't otherwise watch loved it.

[@matthewgilfus1640]

The kindness triumverate: Mr Rogers, Steve Irwin, and Bob Ross. They taught us be kind to others, be kind to animals, be kind to yourself.

[@Son0v4l1ch]

@Chandler Burse yeah, I remember watching samurai Jack when I was 5 or 6.

[@SnepSquad]

Social media definitely is a major negative in our society. The fact that people can go online, feel anonymous, and not be afraid of being held accountable for their threats, trauma-inducing harrassment, cyber stalking, etc creates a very toxic environment, especially for children who grow up thinking this type of behavior is acceptable.

[@zekiz774]

I never really thought this is actually real until I started to actively use Instagram. Before that KZbin and especially Reddit were my main social media sites and ironically they are wayy less toxic.

[@sLifestyle-ny9sx]

Personally, I’m so grateful I was born in 2006. I believe I was in the last generation to have a pure, happy childhood. I had so much fun in elementary school, we had PE twice a week, recess every day in the morning and after lunch, library time, music, art, computer lab, and did fun stuff in our classes every day. I didn’t come home and bury my face in a phone either, I ran around the neighborhood with my friends playing with Nerf guns or riding our skateboards. I miss those days, they were better times.

[@edenswhateverchannel]

As someone born similarly, I disagree, but I'm glad you had fun.

[@raegardens8339]

No offence but literally every generation believes they were the last ones to have a “pure and happy childhood”. You just have nostalgia goggles as there’s always problems with how you were raised. A lot of people your age were raised by screens and didn’t have any of those nice recreational things.

[@Red4score]

@@raegardens8339 Fr I was born in 2008 I would've been outside if my neighborhood was full of other people my age and not full of elderly people. I just feel like my only choice was to be on my phone :/

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

turns out no one knows how to properly let their body relax. lie still on your back in bed, close your eyes, focus on your breath, and intentionally lengthen your breaths. clench and unclench all the muscles you can. Basically NOBODY does this before they go to bed, and it's a definitive way to get restful sleep. if it's not working, do it untill your muscles all relax. This helps SO much with restful sleep, but basically no one knows to do it.

[@KRYMauL]

I learned this because I developed insomnia during college didn't know it was good for relaxing too.

[@diebackmischung503]

@@KRYMauL so thats why it is "I cant get no sleep" ~Insomnia

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

This was the relaxation/meditation technique I used about a decade ago to fight insomnia. Defo worked fore.

[@poopww5378]

Thing is I can’t do that because there’s always some random crumbs on my bed and when I try to go to sleep my brain Immediatley thinks of the scariest things you can think of and then I can’t sleep

[@avamay4224]

Plastic is a good answer. We know how harmful they are and we should be able to stop using single-use plastics, but we can't. They're everywhere. If you try to order a reusable metal water bottle off Amazon, it will come wrapped in 3 layers of plastic. That's how cigarettes used to be, you just couldn't do anything that didn't involve smoking or being around people smoking.

[@bjv93]

That liking a certain politician or political party is a personality trait. There is a reason past generations were more bipartisan, most people just wanted what was best for the country, and did not want to spend most hours of the day trying to "OWN" the opposition or indoctrinate others into their either blue or red shirt cult. The minute society realizes the big, positive societal changes start with each individual changing themselves, we're all going to be so much better off and not looking at each other as if we're the devil incarnate.

[@iron1349]

Problem is I'm trans and don't want to be friends with people who won't accept me

[@MementoMoriGrizzly]

@@iron1349 You can't even accept your own body and expect others to do so?

[@jeremychicken3339]

@@MementoMoriGrizzly As an Intuitionist, I never felt so heard.

[@Milktube]

Political beliefs are highly heritable genetically - they literally are personality traits. Granted the US political system/state currently is a disaster and causing more harm than good on a massive scale but fixing that is a very large project.

[@HYPERLLAMAS64]

It will probably be something about a water crisis. With PFAS in our water and in drink packaging, microplastics in water bottles, and lead pipes in our bulidings, our way of just drinking water is dangerous.

[@AlexRoseLebreton]

I worked at a vegetarian restaurant, when the lady said she didn’t want us to put her soup in a plastic container I asked why and she said “it can give you cancer, it heats up the molecular structure and it can get into what you eat and drink” and I was like “holy fuck why do we still do this” and she shrugged and said “just put mine in a ceramic bowl and I’ll eat it here” and I was like “yeah that sounds smart” my boss got mad at me and asked why I remade her soup, it was perfectly good soup, when I told him the reason he was like “that’s dumb” and I was like “I took chemistry in highschool and what she’s saying actually checks out so I followed what she asked for” and he got so angry and looked like he was going to speak, shook his head no, and just walked away. I wish I quitted right there on the spot; only took me three instances of having to take dead rats outside for me to realize he didn’t care one bit about the safety of our customers.

[@diana_hole61]

So about the first one. I’m glad that my school focuses on the arts so much since it is a (public) arts school, and it really helps students who want to study music or visual art or something. But on the other hand it’s considered a “gifted” school so yeah it basically shoves Info into our face at a ridiculously fast pace. It’s not great at being accommodating for students who need it and the problem is that if you’re considered “below average” or even average in a typical school” you’re pretty much done for. Even in elementary school it separates some kids into a “gifted class” which was a terrible idea bc guess what, I’m now in high school taking classes for college credit that are challenging and I don’t know how to really try. Yeah maybe I picked up multiplication easy in third grade, but now when I find something is hard I get scared bc I’m supposed to be “smart enough “ to do this easily. Sooo high school is really tough since I have anxiety of getting anything below an A while also trying to learn to really pay attention in class, study, and take good notes. Please, schools, teach kids how to learn, not how to get high grades.

[@roberttramone9967]

21:05 kids need to learn to be bored. There are so many creative people I know, that need and crave boredom to keep thinking of new things. If they keep stimulating themselves, they say they get numb, so they try and need boredom to think and come up with new stuff

[@lillaxxitiv1501]

That's interesting. I'm a musician and to me I get the most creativity after I was doing something productive beforehand and not being bored.

[@roberttramone9967]

@@lillaxxitiv1501 oh that's cool. And everyone works different \^_^/ everyone works different tho! So if you have a process, stick with it, and if you can afford to, well... It never hurts to try something new, if you can.

[@aeoligarlic4024]

Thing is, when it comes to kids it always has to start with the adults. You want less/limited screen time for your kids? The parents need to implement it to themselves as well. Read more books and do any offline activities, kids are the epitome of 'monkey see monkey do'. But now even my boomer mom is more addicted to her phone than i am lol Internet and social media has caused attention span problems even within adults, but when you point it out people just get sooooo defensive and angry. The first step of curing addiction is to admit that you have one, and i think the fact some people think this is controversial, it must've struck a nerve on them

[@SaraH-jn5db]

Peroxide tooth whitening over a lifetime eroding your enamel, which as of now can't be regenerated

[@SaraH-jn5db]

@Rose :3 you're probably right, I was referring to tooth whitening toothpaste not whitening done by a dentist

[@WhatsInANameArts]

people saying "depression and anxiety aren't real." and also, the first one is so very completely correct. i'm a high schooler and i can see it in the kids that are behind me and in the kids in the same grade as me. it is so very not okay. oh and yes to all the sleep things. we're all hopped up of excessive amounts of coffee or monster or whatever energy drinks that we can find and it's starting to become a problem to the point that teachers are confiscating energy drinks because of kids being a little bit more not okay than usual.

[@lizardman1303]

Yea all the depression and anxiety seems like a first world problem

[@queerlibtardhippie9357]

@@lizardman1303 Literally something a first world person would say. Go to a different, poorer country. You might learn something.

[@lizardman1303]

@@queerlibtardhippie9357 like plenty of poor people here

[@Kamisuitendo]

@@lizardman1303 Are you saying that to disregard someone's struggles?

[@rjmaxx1258]

Maybe they are trying to get them out of that mindset. The human brain is a complex thing and sometimes tricks you into believing something that isn't true. It wouldn't surprise me if phrama companies and marketing are a part of it. I'm not a socialist but the capitalist system can be screwed up like that sometimes.

[@brunnokamei9623]

It's kinda of a localized issue, but some people of my generation will find out that being obese is actually unhealthy.

[@moonlitskylight5740]

Yeah, some in my area, too.

[@patkmulderig]

The worst part is that if you say that it is unhealthy you are automatically Fatphobic.

[@wilurbean]

@@patkmulderig it's not fear, it's disgust

[@moonlitskylight5740]

@Sufiya H. That and weed 🙄

[@CountingStars333]

@@wilurbean This is phobia.

[@lmao1660]

As a person living in the Balkans, why are so many parents in more western countries (hell even here sometimes) restricting their children from going outside and exploring? I'm I'm not that old but when I was a teen (like a few years ago) could freely hang out kilometers away from home without any problems, hike and so on. IMO the trend of letting your kid barely outside is not good. What do you guys think?

[@Ashbrash1998]

Because kids died is why and now it's a safety risk to let little ones go out without supervision. Which is also tied to bad parenting too.

[@XxTaiMTxX]

Several things :D Sugar I love Sugar. But, when my doctor put me on what was essentially a "no sugar and no fat" diet to get my ulcers under control for a year... Oh lord, I felt so good. The amount of sugar I was allowed to have every day was the equivalent of a single Oreo cookie. Having to go through EVERY SINGLE LABEL on EVERY FOOD I BOUGHT to ensure the sugar content was under that was a NIGHTMARE. Canned vegetables? LOADED WITH SUGAR. Soup? LOADED WITH SUGAR. Prepackaged food you put in a microwave or bake? LOADED WITH SUGAR. When I cut sugar out of my diet, I noticed several effects. 1. A long-term desire to consume sugar constantly. To the point it would interrupt my thoughts. It was indeed an addiction. 3 solid months of craving anything sugary was hell. 2. My appetite actually got to be less without sugar. I stopped eating nearly as much as I used to. I would eat until just under full and remain "not hungry" for far longer. 3. I stopped "snacking" much throughout the day. I felt no desire to do this at all. 4. I slept a lot better at night and had fewer issues "falling asleep". My sleep became far more restful when I did have it. I was also sleeping 8-10 hours a night. 5. My mood gradually improved and I was able to tolerate stress a lot more. Namely, I would stop letting minor things upset me and see those things as reasons to "lash out". 6. Foods with sugar in them tasted wrong if I hadn't had them for a while. They tasted BAD. Soda was disgusting. Chocolate was revolting. Fried foods tasted "off". 7. I lost about 30 pounds in the course of a year WITHOUT exercising all that much. 45 minutes of walking a day is all I did. It's a little scary to think how much sugar actually affected me that I noticed all these things after cutting it out of my diet for a year. Alas, I'm back on the sugar kick again. Probably addicted again. I just couldn't stand the diet I was on for the rest of my life. I couldn't stand the thought of never having bacon again. Or the thought that I'd never again get to enjoy a bag of Doritos and an Ice Cold Coca Cola. Next item: Absent Parenting That is, mothers/fathers who are entirely cut out of their children's lives. I don't even entirely mean "they left the family and you never hear from them again" either. I mean, parents who don't talk to their children. Parents who pawn their children off on daycares. Parents who pawn their children off on video games, phones, iPads, and anything else to get the kids to leave mommy and daddy alone. By and large, children learn almost everything through mimicry. They pick up most of their habits and behaviors while they're young and still growing (typically before age 8). If mommy and daddy don't talk with them much, they don't learn social skills or how to talk very well. If mommy and daddy aren't both in the picture to teach them compassion AND discipline, the child is going to end up socially inept and probably psychologically damaged. If a child doesn't learn how to cook and clean and take care of things as well as what an "acceptable" standard level for any given practice is... they will be lazy and get upset when they're required to do any sort of work. They also tend to grow a sense of entitlement if they don't learn these skills early on. A child needs all these skills and it is the parent's jobs to give them to them. We have a society that currently shirks these duties. Kids who yell and scream in public places. Kids who talk about inappropriate stuff in public. Kids who grow up into damaged adults who can't cope with the world, or with dealing with other people. Kids who lack any sort of self-identity or even the ability to gain one through EARNED personal achievement. Ever wonder where the "Nice Guy" and "Nice Girl" come from? Lack of parenting. These are kids who have never really been told "no" or "you are being a terrible person" by their parents. Kids who have never been punished or held to any sort of standard. This lack of parenting is also why we have so many young adults who lack basic life skills. You are meant to ask your parents how to change the tire on your car and they are meant to show you and have you do it. You are meant to ask your parents how taxes are done so that they can show you how to do it. You are meant to have your parents teach you how to manage money and adhere to a budget. You lack life skills because your parents didn't care enough about you to TEACH YOU these vital skills. These same parents then EXPECT THE SCHOOLS to do it for them! And, now we have kids who think that schools should've taught them these things too, instead of their parents! Last subject: Marijuana. I know everyone is going to hate me for this. I accept that. While I do not use the substance (my friends used to hotbox me against my will and the stuff makes me INSANELY paranoid to the point it actually changes my personality), I have enough experience in dealing with many of these users and seeing the "before" and "after" of use. I don't know what studies have ever been done on it and it's hard to trust any of the ones that have been done on either side of the argument (mostly because there's this crazy bias on both ends). But, I think if we ever get a serious study done on the substance, we'll find that it should be highly regulated and it can cause severe damage in people. My personal experience has me watching so many people who were "decently happy" people turn into angry people, anxious people, and depressed people over extended use of the substance. To the point that the only way these people feel "good" at all is to continue use. My hypothesis is that marijuana somehow releases Dopamine into your system and these people who use extensively have "burned out" their Dopamine Receptors, which causes these psychological issues. Probably even breeding the dependence on the drug. Granted, I have no proof one way or the other. All I have is my own personal experience. But, my experience in watching others start usage and continue usage, has shown me that there's a massive personality shift that comes with the continuous use. I would wager it does SOMETHING to your brain chemistry... But getting either side of the debate to tell the truth on it... probably going to be difficult. I doubt it's massively harmful, but I seriously doubt it's as "safe" as the users want to believe. I'd wager it's probably as dangerous as cigarettes, except it affects you in a psychological capacity as well as lung issues. Namely, I'd bet it would be better "moderated" to a healthy degree. Namely, a "once in a while" usage rather than a "once a week" or "once daily" usage. There's probably some magic number for usage in which it's "safe" for anyone who doesn't have a health condition that necessitates its use... But, neither side really knows OR CARES what that number is. I think as it gets legalized, we're going to eventually find out that it's not as "good for you" as the vast majority believe it is... and not as "bad for you" as all the naysayers want you to believe it is.

[@bdog2200]

No one's reading this sorry lmao

[@XxTaiMTxX]

@@bdog2200 Not sure why you'd want to admit in public that you're lazy, but okay. You do you, man. :D

[@-_Blitz_-]

@@bdog2200 i just read it “lmao”

[@HopeIsntDead]

@@bdog2200 I just read it lmao

[@itsnova4649]

Many reasonable points... Don't see that everyday let alone in a yt comment section to reddit stories.

[@uwu-oo9dn]

“We’re going to see much higher levels of development delays and mental health issues” This man predicted the future

[@mickroyster6442]

Yeah these “communities” such as obese community, mental disorder community, hard of hearing community, is so bad. It’s not like you’re less of a person for having these but having them means you need to get help and make sure you have a long, healthy, happy life

[@karu4115]

It does make you feel like an underdog and when you're closed in that community you kind of forget to just live your life

[@chimerasofhafgufa]

i don't understand you because whenever im open about my struggles in real life i constantly get invalidated/made fun of/can actually end up in danger for who i am the communities arent the problem its a symptom of people getting excluded from society in the first place my family couldn't care less about me being suicidal for past 7 years and my country literally has no system for me to get mental health help and all i have is literally to rely onto my gf from a different continent to maybe pay off private clinics cost and get drugs i need yet here you are just acting like i owe you to instantly get better and not spend time with people who are kind to me and understand what shit im going through?

[@apidgin30]

I know i’m late but about all the school things- Homeschool. Homeschool your kids if you can. My parents made the choice to homeschool me almost two years ago and in that time i’ve been happier than I ever was in school, i’ve also been taught more and have found hobbies. I never would have started to write or animate if I wasn’t homeschooled. Some of my friends are also homeschooled and they’re all doing better than the ones still at public school. The biggest flaw of homeschool is that socializing can be hard and so can finding friends. If your kid has friends from school keep them in touch and if not then find groups of them doing something your kid likes (like a group online that meets up every month who all like the same think, like art or camping) Public school is terrible and is ruining children. No one i’ve ever met has gotten anything positive from school other than a base education and one or two friends, even then they usually end up with some kind of issues from it. I’m only a teen and i’m already struggling with a superiority complex and shyness (I think i’m smarter than everyone else even when i’m not, but i’m scared to talk to people) because it was encouraged in school! My teachers made me be proud to be the smart quiet kid and I went along with it because the moment I broke from that mold I would get called out for it and get in trouble (Even if the thing I was doing wrong was just talking more of louder than normal, instead of a usual sentence of mumbles and whispers) Parents if you can, get your kids out of there. They’ll be grateful.

[@fake-inafakerson8087]

2:27 is more about alienation from labour and societal expectations rather than the nessecity of struggle imo

[@sketchiscribblr8285]

man, I've had constant ear ringing as far back as I can remember. we did the hearing tests and stuff at my school physicals and they didnt see anything _wrong_ in terms of hearing loss but Ive always had that 'grenade just went off next to you in a videogame' ringing pitch.