I lean toward “efficient entertainment”, but I do sometimes wonder what that chunk of my free time would look like otherwise.

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    3 months ago

    You can find newspaper articles from the late 1800s IIRC, that decry the slothful youth wasting all their time reading novels instead of playing outside like the glorious generation before them

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      3 months ago

      Longer than that. 2500 years ago ancient greek philosophers complained about the youth in the same ways.

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      3 months ago

      Well, I’d rather the youth were reading books instead of watching 5 second clips