Everything people do can be considered "unhealthy". It's just a matter of how much.
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This used to be pretty true, especially as far as food. But nowadays, foods are chemicals for profit, it's exponentially worse for us. It sucks we've been sold to the highest bidder for more profit.
Doomscrolling. paying taxes to a pedo
Using a social media.
TL;DR: Phone bad
Using AI. Aside from all its ethical, environmental, and legal issues, I've been shocked to see the cognitive decline in folks using AI regularly. Not only do they forget how to do things like write on their own or do Internet searches by themselves, they even lose higher skills they've spent years acquiring.
Was talking with a developer the other day, and he said he'd almost had a panic attack recently when trying to do something during a recent outage when he was trying to code something relatively simple and couldn't even think about where to begin. He said he'd cut back after that, but honestly not sure he will. Every frequent AI user I know seems to be on a junkie trajectory and unable to cope when their supply gets interrupted.
What irritates the ever loving crap out of me is that all the search engines have gotten so bad that you have to use AI to get the answers now... And..! AI scrapers are so hard on bandwidth and servers housing that all the old how-to tech blogs by actual smart people have packed their bags and left. I used to find loads of great self hosting guides by doing a Google search for "Proxmox npm setup guide" and clicking one of the top three results. Now: sponsored, slop, slop, shilling paid product, old Reddit post, etc.
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Being generally inactive for most of the day, just sitting and reading your phone/computer.
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24 hour news has kinda ruined the country.
Commuting back and forth five days a week working mindless jobs producing next year's landfill so you can pay for food that half of it ends up in the trash, while talking earnestly about pollution and climate change.
We had the chance to build a low-emission leisure society.
Drinking alcohol. Also its not probably, its 100% unhealthy for you and a leading killer, yet its a huge part of almost every society on earth.
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Rampant gambling. I heard that it was also popular in the twilight years of the Roman Empire.
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Driving a gas/diesel car, car centric societies are hell for health. I mean car is useful but we should not use it everyday and need it to do everything.
Pollution (from combustion and tire wear) provoke breath illness and weakens our immunity system, have you seen a spike on asthma issues?
Lack of physical exercise make us sick.
Petrol gives cancer, how does it is not written on every gas pump, like for tobacco ?
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Driving cars.
We should ban all cars except for ambulances and fire engines.
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we know all the plastic is getting everywhere and bioaccumulating and has wierd interactions with our organic wetwear.
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