Stare at their phones every possible moment.
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Driving, it actually kills alot of people not having a centralised transport system
I think we'd all be better off if bicycles were the norm instead of cars. I can't ride a bicycle but I don't have a driver's license either. If everyone rode bicycles instead of driving cars, there'd be less pollution, no worries about gas prices, and people would get more exercise
Social media is a cancer and allows the worst of society a platform.
Doom scrolling short form video.
My dad does this for hours per day after work and nothing else, and now it seems he's lost all his critical thinking completely and is commonly disregulated, and I'm kind of afraid he'll get more forgetful and erratic, since he's already showing signs of slipping into Alzheimer's.
Standing at a register for check out. Mostly a US thing from what I've heard. It's wicked bad for you.
Oh and AI sucks ass and you're a bad person if you use it.
Handling register receipt tape too... It's literally carcinogenic.
Yep and full of endocrine disruptors. And the companies do not want you to wear gloves.
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I'm guilty of it but browsing social media. The algorithms are intentionally designed to keep you addicted and engaged and all fall for it.
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A lot of people think one lives to work not working to live. So many people flexing they work 80 hours a week but by the time they retire, all the savings and pensions go to medication and elderly care.
smoking
commuting in cars
drinking alcohol
eating processed food
living in suburbs
Glitter. Just spreading micro plastics.
Biodegradable glitter is a thing. Unfortunately it's not an enforced at retail thing.
I don't allow glitter in my home.
Drinking from plastic bottles.
Isolate themselves to mostly just their phone and the façade world that exists within.
Things that could be harmful but we don't know for sure yet?
Possibly porn. Currently we really lack research on porn's effect on people. Whoever tells you confidently it's normal or degenerate is a liar. No one knows. We are just running a society-wide experiment in real time.
Have you actually looked if there's scholarship on it? Because I'd be amazed if there isn't, and I'm gonna be pissed if I use my library and find a shitload of it.
Frankly, no, I didn't check Google Scholar or similar. I only asked an LLM if there is research and what it says.
Driving cars.
definitely AI, so many people are dependant on it, and it even shows that it degrades peoples education as well. ruinings peoples future career/layoffs too.
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Believing they're well informed because they absorb just enough information to make a value judgement. The more you train yourself to process the world in that half-assed way, the more you'll run your life like that.
Ai.
All the harsh, cancerous chemicals you or your neighbors are pumping into your lawns and the city is using on the public parks you take your kids to.
Breathe. I live in coal fired power plant country, I will have a lower life expectancy because of what I'm breathing in.
Landlords, especially corpo ones
Like uhm... pretty much everything.
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