'Analog Bags' Are In. Doomscrolling Is Out. (axios.com) 120
alternative_right shares a report from Axios: The latest must-have accessory is a "stop-scrolling bag" -- a tote packed with analog activities like watercolors and crossword puzzles. We spend hours glued to our screens. "Analog bags," as they're also called, are one way millennials and Gen Zers are reclaiming that time. "I basically just put everything I could grab for instead of my phone into a bag," including knitting, a scrapbook and a Polaroid camera, says Sierra Campbell, the content creator behind the trend.
The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car. The trend has quickly spread on social media, part of a bigger shift to unplug. Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025 -- up over 330% from the same period last year, according to TikTok data shared with Axios. "It speaks to an incredible desperation and desire for experiences that return our attention to us, that fight brain-rotting, that are tactile ... that involve creating over scrolling," says Beth McGroarty, vice president of research at the Global Wellness Institute.
The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car. The trend has quickly spread on social media, part of a bigger shift to unplug. Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025 -- up over 330% from the same period last year, according to TikTok data shared with Axios. "It speaks to an incredible desperation and desire for experiences that return our attention to us, that fight brain-rotting, that are tactile ... that involve creating over scrolling," says Beth McGroarty, vice president of research at the Global Wellness Institute.
The irony (Score:5, Funny)
You create a digital bag to unplug. Then you go and post about it repeatedly on TikTok and other doomscrolling platform.
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You create a digital bag to unplug. Then you go and post about it repeatedly on TikTok and other doomscrolling platform.
This. First rule of retro media haters fight club should have been shut the fuck up about it.
Re:The irony (Score:5, Funny)
HA. The whole point of being retro is the hipster aspect of being cooler. But no one can be cool if they are not socially observed as being cool. It's the tree falling in the forest. You are only cool if people know you are cool. Affectations of retro style require humble bragging.
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But no one can be cool if they are not socially observed as being cool.
besides, this thing can't be trusted, it doesn't even come with a proper monthly subscription. what if you run out of pink? or when you have swallowed all 2 candies?
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I really need to get some self discipline. As much as I try I keep checking Reddit. I loath myself. The only good thing to happen in the last few years was Elon buying twitter. That made getting unhooked on that time waste easy. But Reddit became my methadone.
I've resolved that I'm going to start hitting you tube for educational videos. Gonna learn Lie Group theory!
The problem is Trump. Everyday I have to see what fresh hell he's caused. Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush.
fire is nice if it weren't for those nasty flames (Score:2, Insightful)
Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush. Like them or loathe them it wasn't insanity.
that's like blaming the flame after the house caught fire. trump is a symptom, not the cause. things were not okay before him, or he wouldn't be there, would he? at least now you know. now, where we're going from there is indeed worrying, and trump may have a catalizing effect, but he is just another cog of many.
good luck with your unplugging. i'd suggest getting a hobby, or physical activity is also effective.
Re:fire is nice if it weren't for those nasty flam (Score:4, Interesting)
Trump is an accelerant.
His total, complete shamelessness is unique (recent examples: $230m demand for payment, demolishing the white house), and for reasons that escape me there's a cult of personality around him.
So to extend the analogy, there were a bunch of fires in the house, but for various reasons they were mostly contained, and there might have been a way to extinguish them.
Now half the house is on fire, and we'll be lucky to contain the damage to just the east wing.
Re:fire is nice if it weren't for those nasty flam (Score:4, Interesting)
and for reasons that escape me there's a cult of personality around him.
he for sure masters the art of playing the media, getting and redirecting attention. probably why his public outbursts are so outlandish, contradicting and even nonsensical. i guess that tactic can only work for so long and at some point people will just stop registering. then again that invites reflection about why societies are so vulnerable to that kind of messaging, imo the way msm media has degenerated has a lot to do with it, infantilizing discussion and promoting polarization. this has been going on for a while.
Re:fire is nice if it weren't for those nasty flam (Score:4, Interesting)
and for reasons that escape me there's a cult of personality around him.
he for sure masters the art of playing the media, getting and redirecting attention. probably why his public outbursts are so outlandish, contradicting and even nonsensical. i guess that tactic can only work for so long and at some point people will just stop registering. then again that invites reflection about why societies are so vulnerable to that kind of messaging, imo the way msm media has degenerated has a lot to do with it, infantilizing discussion and promoting polarization. this has been going on for a while.
The thing about cults of personality is that they tended to either have a dearth of personality or completely repulsive personalities. They get the cult by picking on the naive, vulnerable or just plain stupid.
/.er would be positively suave in comparison) except he could pick the vulnerable people out of a room and get close to them.
David Koresh (Branch Davidians, A.K.A. Waco) was reported to be an utterly repulsive person. Didn't bathe, had terrible BO, unkempt, no interpersonal skills (I mean almost none, the average
It's the same with people like Trump, Farage, et al. they figured out that they can rile up the stupid people and then use that anger to get what they want. The people they get riled up over non-issues are too dumb to realise that they're the ones being manipulated, so much so they'll defend the manipulation, violently so in many cases rather than take simple and easy steps to stop being taken advantage of.
You are right of course, that the media played a huge role in this.
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You mean those extra 20+ mil that contribute to Social Security and Medicare, that work in jobs native born American won't be caught dead doing. The inflation was cause by Covid whacking supply chains and, afterwards, people buying everything not nailed down.
Now we have high inflation, a decreasing workforce which will depress GDP, lower contributions to Social Security and Medicare and also national defense, and crops rotting in the fields. Think you'll get some help to help you through your dotage? Nope,
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You mean those extra 20+ mil that contribute..
Citation required. US has no unskilled labor shortage and the resulting blue collar wage suppression makes US citizens poorer.
Without wage suppression, food will cost twice as much or more.
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It is INSANE to import foreign worker into such environment. Americans "not wanting" to do jobs is an excuse to suppress wages to pay migrants below living wage.
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Masked secret police.
People being disappeared.
Sending people to be tortured.
There are a bunch of indicators about how much authoritarianism has increased - Trump's plan to just give himself $230 million is one.
Anybody who is paying attention and actually gives a shit about freedom should worry about Stephen Miller's expansion of an unaccountable police force and abject cruelty.
But it's pretty obvious from your talking points that you're only listening to RWNJ media.
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There are valid criticism to be had of Trump and Trump's administration, but tra-la-la invented outrage al-la Russiagate is not it.
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These are not obscure stories or based on circumstantial evidence; the Trump administration has not hidden any of this.
There's no shortage of evidence, but you can get a lot confirmation via one source - Kristy Noem:
Masked police:
https://capitolnewsillinois.co... [capitolnewsillinois.com]
https://jayapal.house.gov/2025... [house.gov]
CECOT (torture prison):
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26... [cnn.com]
'Alligator Alcatraz' (150 people that used to be there are still unaccounted for):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a... [cbsnews.com]
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People empowered to commit violence on behalf of the state should be identifiable. Period. These agents have no badge numbers, no uniforms, no agency insignia, and masks.
They look like people cosplaying as police officers, and predictably, criminals are taking advantage of that:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02... [cnn.com]
Accountability for the police is not optional. I can't believe anyone would argue otherwise.
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At most, from what I have read ...
You need to read more.
Almost all of the ~250 people the United States sent to the concentration camp in El Salvador were Venezuelan. Almost none were criminals, and the vast majority were in the United States legally.
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People empowered to commit violence on behalf of the state should be identifiable. Period.
Historically, in many cases, notably when dealing with organized crime, law enforcement agents were afforded such protections as a way to neutralize threat of violence against them. Here is a story about arresting a drug lord [bbc.com], as you can see LEOs are masked.
Accountability for the police is not optional.
You are equivocating accountability. What you really mean by accountability is mob justice by Antifa terrorists against ICE agents lawfully carrying their constitutional duty. This is because you don't believe immigration laws should be ever enforced an
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Almost none were criminals, and the vast majority were in the United States legally.
I don't believe this to be accurate. However, I do agree that deporting people, even criminals, into El Salvador is an unethical move.
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"Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes"
https://www.propublica.org/art... [propublica.org]
"'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse"
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/27... [npr.org]
https://www.texastribune.org/2... [texastribune.org]
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"Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes" https://www.propublica.org/art [propublica.org]...
While I have seen stories like that, I decided to carefully read this one. Here are my thoughts:
1. What does that mean "according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security data that has not been previously reported.". It suggest they looked at HS data, but if it was FOIed, why did they not cite/provide it?
2. "Tulsi Gabbard, Trumpâ(TM)s director of national intelligence, fired the reportâ(TM)s authors after it became public. Her office, according to news reports, said Gabbard was trying to âoe
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"Although some members have tattoos, the organization does not have specific tattoos that signify membership in the manner of the maras, such as MS13 or 18th Street. Rather, Tren de Aragua is reminiscent of former criminal organizations in South America including the Medellin Cartel or Cali Cartel, which similarly did not use signifying tattoos, thus preventing easy identification."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/l... [nbcnews.com]
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The Trump administration invoked the 'Alien Enemies Act' for many of these deportations in order to bypass any hearings or due process.
A federal judge issued a restraining order on this use of the Act, and ordered the deportations to halt while hearings were conducted; the Trump Administration ignored the order.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... [nytimes.com]
Emil Bove, who directed CPB and the DOJ to ignore the court order, was later nominated to be a federal judge by Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/27... [cnn.com]
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So the Trump administration is saying it's ok to ignore court orders and pay El Salvador to torture people, because due process might take too long.
That is completely inhumane and un-American, and I reject it as being at all reasonable.
You should too.
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you sound like you've lost touch with reality. i've given up on lost causes like you. The US empire is dead and it has cancer which is terminal with almost no chance for recovery. As predicted decades ago, 2025 will be marked as the final threshold to it's demise. All I can say to a few people who don't even remember the prediction is "I told you so."
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The US empire is dead and it has cancer which is terminal with almost no chance for recovery.
In other words, you hate America and everything it stands for. Got it.
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In other words, every doctor who diagnoses a patient with terminal cancer hates their patient. I understand your reasoning and it's unhinged.
The US empire was slowly dying; it's dead now; it's just going to take a while as the world shifts away. The USA itself is imploding.
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and for reasons that escape me there's a cult of personality around him.
1) Prosperity theology is the dominant religious belief system in America. If you are successful, it's because God loves you!
2) Lots of people are stupid enough to think he had a lot of money before he got access to the presidency and therefore bribes from all sides, instead of a lot of property which was worth less than the amount of debt he had. Therefore they can believe that he was wealthy, which means God loves him. (See point 1.)
3) They love that he says the kinds of things they say and wants to hurt
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a) Fuck off, loser.
b) For everybody else, this was in reference to a specific story:
"President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1... [nytimes.com]
"It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself," Trump said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trum... [go.com]
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You should read the article instead of guessing.
People that report to Trump can approve a settlement, so Trump can demand a payment to Trump. He does not have to prove his case in court (he would lose, as long as the judge wasn't someone like Aileen Cannon).
And only a complete idiot would believe Trump's claims about donating the money. He has reneged on every such promise he has made in the past.
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the symptom of living in a country of morons just waiting to be "engaged" with the right marketing.
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Please don't. YouTube is full of garbage science and crackpots like Eric Weinstein who purport to talk about mathematics and physics. Even the legit science communicators like 3blue1brown are basically producing eyecandy but not filling: You'll never master the subject by watching videos.
If you want to learn Lie Group theory, buy an actual peer reviewed book. Then do the exercises. Assuming you're starting from scratch, you could try Tapp's "Matrix Groups for Undergraduates". After that, check out the book
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. Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush.
Life was not placid under Bush, if it wasn't yellowcake, it was warcrimes. Domestically he wanted to get rid of social security. We're lucky he got shut down by congress his second term.
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Forget trying to learn Lie Group theory from Youtube. Just when you get to a crucial point: Lie groups provide a natural model for the concept of continuous symmetry....
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Just stop watching the news. It was hard for me since i'd been into it since elementary school, i used to love fact checking and getting the bigger picture.
The big picture is depressing, we're fucked, we've gone from being lucky to get a house and retire to i hope there isn't a war or great depression. There is very little you can do about it other than vote and get hostile with maga assholes so theyre uncomfortable in public, and maybe punch your own ticket when things get really bad.
Block shithole redd
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Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush.
Then you weren't really paying attention or spending as much time on your phone (particularly in the Bush years). There was just as much nonsense but you didn't have devices and/or algorithms blaring it in your face. Politics is bad enough for your mental health; social media just weaponized it.
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Part of the zeitgeist. Self-congratulatory for every little thing. Used some childhood references for your artistic endeavor? New genre. Rephrased a tired trope as a meme? Biting cultural criticism.
Likes are the new participation trophy.
And now- bring a different distraction because you are finally sick of the dead internet? Analogue bags.
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The real irony is treating it like it is some new discovery, or like it's some ancient sacred knowledge dug up out of the sands of time on clay tablets and painstakingly translated out of cuneiform.
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Clay tablets sound like just the thing for an analog bag.
Re: The irony (Score:2)
Given the roughness of the stone, the bag would probably need to be linen, not digital. ;-)
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Learn guitar (Score:3)
Re: Learn guitar (Score:1)
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And fire in the sky.
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Good Grief. (Score:2)
"I basically just put everything I could grab for instead of my phone into a bag," including knitting, a scrapbook and a Polaroid camera, says Sierra Campbell, the content creator behind the trend.
Ah. A "content creator".
Say no more.
Re:Good Grief. (Score:5, Insightful)
Put some random stuff in a sack, record yourself talking about it for hours, edit very carefully, plaster and distribute it all across The Socials, get an Axios article to promote your video, spend days in the comments section discussing how great it is that you were able to separate from social media.
Me, personally, I carry around paperbacks and don't post about it on TikBook.
Re:Good Grief. (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't carry around my paperbacks "room to room" though. I take one to work (or wherever I'm going) and bring it back home where it stays in its spot unless I'm in the act of reading it.
Carrying a bag of random shit around with you "room to room" sounds bizarre, like you're just substituting your phone with something else to grip. Fixating on the possession of an object rather than whatever you could do with it. Do you even knit, bro?
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> Carrying a bag of random shit around with you "room to room" sounds bizarre...
It sounds like someone with an diagnosed mental disorder they should be medicating for.
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How do you respond when people observe that you only read books to impress people?
I send them this video [youtube.com] (alt="Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer").
How about when some 3rd party writes an article about literary readers, claiming that nobody reads books except to point out to people socially that they read so they can feel intellectually superior?
People who read books are intellectually superior, they should feel that way. Even those people who only read them to impress people are more knowledgeable than people who haven't read...those people aren't the best, but they have more knowledge than people who only watch things like bachelor, and don't read. If you're entire worldview is created by daytime TV and Netflix, then you are only pitiable.
If people can disc
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Even those people who only read them to impress people are more knowledgeable than people who haven't read...
I absolutely loathe people who gotta bring up their highly fashionable attention book in the middle of a discussion. Usually citing it knowing that there's little chance the rest of the room has read it, often in bad faith or with poor comprehension.
But i gotta back you up there, they know more than people who don't read and often when they mature they turn into the real life version of the sort of person they want people to think they are.
A few books in you're an obnoxious know it all, totally unaware of
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I absolutely loathe people who gotta bring up their highly fashionable attention book in the middle of a discussion. Usually citing it knowing that there's little chance the rest of the room has read it, often in bad faith or with poor comprehension.
Often an appropriate series of questions can help bring them back as a contributory conversation member.
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"citing it knowing that there's little chance the rest of the room has read it"
I figured out I was well read when I started finding I've already read a lot of the books people bring up.
It's an interesting insight into information ghettoes. There's no good reason for two people in the same office to have read the same book except that we're both getting book recommendations from the same talk show circuit. Daily Show and Real Time are the source of many book recommendations I've followed.
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Things done to create a sense of superiority are a poison consumed proudly by fools with naught to be proud of.
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The answer to your first question is: I don't respond, because nobody says that to me, because it's not a thing I do.
Couldn't make sense of the rest of your jumble.
Analog bag (Score:3)
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And a towel. If you want to survive out here you have to know where your towel is.
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I think these doomer people all need Joo Jango Peril Sensitive Sun Glasses.
Why would I need that with my towel for a quick handyooOOH.
Nevermind. I’ll be down here in the gutter with my mind.
Get off my lawn (Score:2)
In my day, the whole world was an "analog bag".
Mainly because my parents were too cheap to buy me the TRS-80 I kept harping about.
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Use an Airtag so you don't loose it (Score:2)
Reminiscent of a Sci-Fi short story (Score:3)
This reminds me of the excellent Sci-Fi short story Better Living Through Algorithms [clarkesworldmagazine.com].
Mommy bag / Kid Travel Bag (Score:5, Interesting)
Used to be called a "Kid's Travel Bag" and all good mothers carried one for their children when on a long car ride.
Crayons, paper, stuffed animal, fidget toy, Juice box, animal crackers, piece of fruit, jacks, rubik's cube, sippy cups for the kid.
Water bottle, band-aids, napkins, ziplock bags, wet wipes, maybe some spare underwear, Sunglasses, Hair Ties, tide stick, chapstick, suntan lotion, tampons.
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And they happened to be the same size as reusable grocery bags. Weird.
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Ever since Covid stopped people from 'reusing' the reuseable groceries bag delivered by Fresh Direct, EVERY bag I see in NY is a Fresh Direct bag.
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These new travel/analog bags also have vapes, Adderall pills, and alcoholic fizzy water targeted at the taste buds of a 12 year old.
Just remember kids. It’s still weed that crushes millions to death with its massive gateway.
Pay no attention to the death toll of all that other highly profitable shit. Stock price is more important than harm.
This just in (Score:2)
TikTok content creator says this thing she's promoting on TikTok is the latest hot trend!
I remember the 80's and 90's (Score:4, Informative)
If you were bored, you'd light up a cigarette. Obviously not for children, but for 14+ it was how many of us coped with the lack of an immediately rewarding stimulus in the analog world.
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"Ah, the good old days. When I was your age, when we were bored, we consumed poison! The real stuff, not these modern microplastic thingies. You kids don't know how good it is. And sometimes we watched the wall. Because it was better than watching TV."
I wonder what the world record is for fastest human to have a double lung transplant as a result of cigarette smoking?
Oddly enough, I’ll bet the vape record beats the shit out of it.
(In case we were still wondering how the multi-trillion dollar Big Vape lawsuit will be going by 2040 buried under a blanket of litigious denial.)
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For vaping it's 16 years old.
I'm not aware of tobacco smoking beating that, but there have been a lot of smokers over the centuries so it seems possible, the internet is just bad at searching for information older than a few years.
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Oddly enough, I’ll bet the vape record beats the shit out of it.
Why do you think that? I would expect vape to cause fewer lung cancers.
For example, cigarette smoke is rich in benzopyrene (which is mostly absent in vape, but still present in small quantities). In the lungs, benzopyrene reacts with cell DNA in a way that causes G bases to convert to thymine bases. Sometimes the conversion happens on the P53 (tumor suppressor) gene, leading to cancer.
It's thought that benzopyrene causes about a third of the lung cancer tumors. Of course, there are other carcinogens (
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When I was in college, we came up with "the lame shoe game".
People sat on different sofas in the living room. We had a shoe. The goal ws to hit someone with the shoe, but you had to hit the ceiling first.
You were not allowed to defend against the shoe in any way. You had to let it hit you wherever it hit, and you had to sprawl out to make a big target. Failure to do both meant that someone got to throw the shoe directly at you, without hitting the ceiling first.
This is what we did when we sat around the apa
Please post tiktoks of your analog activities (Score:2)
That way you'll *really* get off line, what with you recording it for posterity!
Learn discipline! (Score:2)
Im' *not* going back to the bat belt just because some "cOntEnT CreAtOr" lacks discipline, and apparently so do many including freinds of mine in theor 80's.. the algo got them.
I'm not going back to hauling a camera, a walkman, a little black book, a pen, and other assorted junk just because people are suckered into the algo. I don't care whose algo, they all do the same.
Learn discipline. I have all of Harry Potter, a good chunk of Tom Clancy, a good chunk of Stephen King in my phone. movies. Music. Ga
Oh, another fad for bored young women. (Score:2)
Read a book. (Score:1)
Any book. Its not hard.
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The underlying point (Score:4, Interesting)
I went on a ferry ride a few weeks back. I enjoyed watching porpoises playing in the water alongside the boat, walked around the deck, even the seagulls were entertaining, they love to fly around the propeller was behind the ship for goodies that might have been churned up.
About 80 percent of the passengers were staring at their smartphones.
Just last night in a grocery store, some adipose addled woman ran me into a freezer while walking hunched over her phone while she was shopping. She glared at me, quite angry that I was in her vicinity, and she had to look up. And it wasn't a momentary thing, I watched incredulously as she continued down the aisle, never looking up. Must have taken a long time to shop if looking away from the phone is a bad thing.
The Gen Z stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]. They touch on it, but don't go into depth. These kids are addicted to social media - the actual physical world is not their world, that smartphone is.
Frankly, being around methheads is better. At least they are in the moment.
Another part of the social media addiction follows, some of the biggest victims - so hear me out.
Validation. I have seen this especially with women. As social bulwarks like the #metoo ( itself an example of addiction as it morphed from actual sexual assault victims to women metooing men because of having a date they didn't enjoy) women permanently changed the way that men interact with them, many of who have branded all men as the enemy. Women still want validation (not a criticism, it is something most women want by nature) In a world where I can't tell a woman I think her dress is nice, or I like her earrings, guess where the validation comes from. Online, in social media.
Except now, it is just plain weird to read women giving other women validation about their new dress or earrings, offering sometimes highly sexualized comments to each other as validation. Men in the same groups make no comment at all. Which is what they have been tacitly ordered not to do. Meanwhile the women then go on to speak of how stupid their husband or male friends on in a sort of "can you top this"? contest. The men stay silent and only speak of "guy things" like having to mow the lawn or rake leaves. Sometimes with a "joke" insult reply by the women, that the men ignore.
This is an exceptionally unhealthy dynamic, fueled by mental validation addiction they are no longer getting. A really weird positive feedback loop, as good young women who are not womanists, who would love to have a good man, yet have been raised with social media and womanist adjacent, if not womanist, are getting quite upset that men don't approach them any more.
Men. In my continuing research, places like Youtube have been an interesting waterhole for men. Men who have been damaged in divorce or workplace accusations have found an outlet in Youtube. RedPill content is widely watched and commented on, and RedPill's younger brother MGTOW is really creating some waves, as video after video of women shaming or heaping hatred on men are shown, as reaction videos fair use. Every case found of false accusation are shown. Increasing numbers of young - even older - men have checked out of the relationship arena.
They don't run out of content either. In irony, the shaming has stopped working, every "Looks like the incel has shown up." comment has zero effect. Manshaming as it is known, has been used so often and for so many trivial things, it has no power any more.
Same thing for mansplaining. As many women today complain about a lack of mentoring in the workplace, we have to remember that telling a woman how something should be done, is textbook mansplaining. So men just keep their mouths shut. To the workplace gestalt, women
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Same thing for mansplaining. As many women today complain about a lack of mentoring in the workplace, we have to remember that telling a woman how something should be done, is textbook mansplaining. So men just keep their mouths shut. To the workplace gestalt, women see men conversing, joking, interacting with each other positively, then silence when she approaches. That has to be incredibly uncomfortable for them.
While I agree with your other content, I wanted to reinforce there is a good way of going about this.
(Man to Woman): ”Hey, I’d like to show you a process we do here. You up for it? Hey and just so you know, I’m always welcome to feedback, so let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.”
If that were Woman to Woman, she would call that person a teacher. A man deserves no less respect, as long as he understands the concept of being humble. Every good teacher, knows they ar
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After a few weeks they will realize that it's not enough to fill the bag with toys and carry it around, they actually have to open it and use the things inside occasionally to benefit.
I have the same problem, I pack a book for work trips and wind up never reading it, it simply takes up space in my carry-on
I just can't get past the image... (Score:3)
1. Vintage 35MM camera
2. A journal
3. Water colors & painting book
4. A cassette tape
5. A fountain pen
6. Two pieces of hard candy
7. Two pencil sharpeners
8. A pencil
9. A pair of scissors
10. Hipster sunglasses
This is the "quirky girl starter pack" and is only missing a orange prescription bottle to be the "manic pixie dream girl" starter pack.
What happened to good old reading ... (Score:2)
... and sewing?
I've picked up reading again. RPG books for my sessions (I GM Coriolis and Forbidden Lands)
I've also now added thimble, needles and thread to my EDC and fix buttons, snags in my cargo pants or holes in my backpack, jacket lining or whatever when I'm on the go, sitting in PT or waiting for someone or something. You can think and listen to a podcast or audiobook while doing it and you're doing something useful, helping the environment, saving money and training your confidence and motor
LEGO is a great way to avoid doomscrolling... (Score:3)
I find building with LEGO to be a great way to avoid the temptation to doom-scroll on Twitter or watch endless YouTube videos or otherwise waste lots of time online.
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It is absolutely incredible how people are unable to just... stop... and do nothing... and think to themselves... and just sit and enjoy the scenery nowadays.
I live in a quiet rural town precisely because it allows me to do that. But during lockdown, I heard NOTHING but people saying how they were going insane and "had to" break the law/quarantine in order to go out and do stuff and meet up with people after just a few days. They literally couldn't be in their own company for a few hours without going mad
Re: Nothing new (Score:1)