🌎 Discussion: Society and Politics

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Golden retriever boyfriends and ick lists: gen Z’s dating rules are making them ‘constantly disappointed’

A steady stream of viral terms and online guidance is leading young people to reduce prospective partners to checklists

www.theguardian.com

 

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Then call it something else because not all Christians think this way by far.

 

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I would too. Or take a CNA job at a place that will pay for further education.

 

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Besides not having a broad education which means that you will understand the world less, trade workers will find that their bodies will betray them as they get older that gets in the way of their manual labor work. It's not all sunshine and rainbows.

 

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Why everyone is turning to the 90s for parenting tips

Watching a movie rented from Blockbuster, threading a charm bracelet, and taking on your friends with a game of Hungry, Hungry, Hippo. Those 90s trends we miss so dearly are the ones that are inspiring millennial parents, Amber Raiken finds

www.the-independent.com

 

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

 

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Trump? Lol...

 

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‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely to build a whole fake persona …

www.theguardian.com

 

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Has social media finally peaked? The rise of AI and decline of screen time

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

www.irishtimes.com

It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline, according to an analysis of the online habits of 250,000 adults in more than 50 countries carried out for the FT by the digital audience insights company GWI. And this is not just the unwinding of a bump in screen time during pandemic lockdowns – usage has traced a smooth curve up and down over the past decade-plus.

Across the developed world, adults aged 16 and older spent an average of two hours and 20 minutes per day on social platforms at the end of 2024, down by almost 10 per cent since 2022. Notably, the decline is most pronounced among the erstwhile heaviest users – teens and 20-somethings.

 

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