Ruining things is what they do.
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However, study limitations prevent proving causality, though reduced outdoor exposure is likely a key contributing factor.
This. The hypothesis before this study was that disproportionate time spent focusing exclusively on close things (reading, drawing, crafting), without corresponding shifts to distant objects, led to nearsightedness. Screen time is just another close-focus activity, one that has skyrocketed in practice since the days of "don't sit too close to the TV, you'll [insert bogus malady here]."
Well you know what they say: mo money, mo problems.
Which can be extrapolated to no money, no problems. Right?
Right???
If you think your mom isn't on the internet, have I got a hot URL for you.
100%. My nephew (also ND) sends me YT shorts all the time and I can feel the brain cells dying each time a spoken word gets highlighted or the place where the spoken words are written get rearranged or the background doesn't match the content (it's almost always Minecraft). Reading someone else's tumblr posts out loud. Reciting animal factoids. Feeding comment sections into AI music generators. It's endless tripe.
They're not designed to be entertaining, they're designed to fire as many neurons as possible in an attempt to get you to keep scrolling and fire more neurons etc. In other words, addiction bait.
To be clear, I am not advocating for shooting Musk. I am saying we can ignite a fraction of the rocket fuel without any of the containment vessels or expensive infrastructure. While there will be no liftoff, it would certainly be uplifting.
Reaching escape velocity is expensive. We can be more efficient and still achieve the same result using a minuscule fraction of the propellant and none of the rocket framing.
I wouldn't say I'm missing it, Bob.
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She might as well have a mall ninja sword strapped to her back.
If we get nothing else from this shitshow, let it be this.
Thanks for that! I knew there was something I was forgetting about but couldn't pin down what it was without rabbit-holing myself. Could have sworn either that or another study mentioned lack of near-far focus changes as another contributor, but I could be mistaken.