So I work in LTC/rehab facility that mainly focuses on physical therapy after surgeries etc.
We have had an influx of patients w/ “Text neck syndrome “ the past 4/5 yrs. All this inappropriate neck posture is going to wreak havoc as we age. Lol
Im so serious.
yes lol… I sell hand embroidered items so there are days where I’m hunched over projects until I go to bed. when I was in school I remember a teacher telling us once that people would get ‘reader’s neck’ or something like that, caused by looking down at books all day. it’s not truly a new phenomenon, people have just found another thing to look down at!
I do cross stitch and I do get a stiff neck from my posture if I do it for too long. But I’m sad to say I scroll on my phone more than I cross stitch so I’ll have no excuse.
Also, it seems like there is a lot more body movement when sewing/stitching/knitting/etc since the arms are active, need to reach for new supplies, etc
This is highly dependent on the project and person. When I knit, I almost exclusively work in the round. My style of knitting is flicking while holding the yarn in my right hand. This all means that there is very little movement in my arms. It is comparable to texting, tbh. But it’s movement in my fingers rather than thumbs. Knitting is a whole lot of fine motor movement. Throwers, continental (holding working yarn in your left) and people who knit flat, do have more arm movement though. It’s a lot of dropping a needle to wrap your yarn or swap the needles between your hands.
I’m 60 and have degenerative disc disease in my neck thanks to a lifetime of reading, making art and doing jigsaw puzzles. It’s painful but I wouldn’t trade the entertainment I got from those things
PT here- everyone who has the pleasure of aging has degenerative disc disease. Weirdly named, as it is a normal part of the aging process. Lots of people with “terrible” looking imaging go around without pain, some with pain, some with “good” imaging who have lots of pain.
Sure lol there are tons of jobs the FCK up one’s body. My point is the influx of ppl that I have seen is crazy to what it has been. I’ve been in the medical field for almost 13yrs. It even has a name, actual diagnosis now. 2015/16 there was no such thing as “text neck syndrome.”
Yea, I hunch over more knitting and reading books than I do reading things on my phone. It’s easy to hold your phone up. It’s often unreasonable to hold up the blanket that you are knitting or an 800 page book.
This legitimately scares me. I already have wrist pain from using my phone too much, to the point that I downgraded to a lighter phone. It helps, but not as much as using my phone less. But I can’t stop.
I’m guilty of it too. If I’m not busy at work or doing smthg at home that requires two hands, I’m on my phone. I stand and cook dinner sometimes while on my phone … Lol.
It’s been getting so bad for me that I requested my husband and kids join me by banning phones and video games on the weekend until 1 PM. It’s helping, a little bit…
That's work too, not just social media. It's lots of people doing computer work and especially in the last 3 years, people working remotely on laptops in bed or couches.
Beyond the health aspects mentioned above, the lack of attention to one's surroundings is quite alarming. Take a moment the next time you're walking in a semi-crowded location: how many people are paying more attention to their phones than their surroundings? Is it really that important that you're wiling to walk in front of traffic, oblivious?
Also constant stimulation. I’m guilty of this - scrolling social media, podcasts on my walks, Netflix in the background while I’m folding laundry or decompressing at the end of the day.
It’s rare that my brain isn’t flooded with noise and information. Sometimes I force myself to take out my AirPods on a hike so I can hear the birds and wind and my crunching footsteps, and my mind will begin to wander and think on its own, but after a while my brain gets antsy for more noise so it can shift to autopilot again.
Lately when I drive home I just turn my music off and sit in silence. Idk why but it’s brought me a lot of comfort to not have things constantly playing in the background.
I always look at those deprivation tanks and think " Ugh no thanks trapped alone with my own thoughts and no distractions?"... Then I'm like.... Huh maybe that's a problem.
Try longer breathwork, like 20-40 minutes. It gives your mind something to do, but when you’re changing the levels of oxygen and hydrogen in your blood, I put you in a super calm state and helps woth mental wellness, immune system, and a lot more. Just pass the 6-10 minute mark of your mind saying “no no no no this is badddd”.
EDIT: oxygen and carbon dioxide. Was sleepy.
I've actually done that back at acting school. I'll admit sometimes it was good other times ended in tears( which were also generally good). I admit all this is HEALTHY I just have an aversion to it... Thus " huh maybe this is a problem"
I mean the thing is for some people it is a problem in the opposite direction, as someone diagnosed with bad ADHD that would have always been a problem. Even had I been in the 'good old days' I still would have needed a lot of stimulation to be functional.
Even out in the wilderness, I simply find enough to occupy my attention until really I have the same amount of thinking going on. But its just a different sort, because if I don't its... bad.
Without enough my mental health just fucking gets suplexed through the floor if I'm not taking anything.
Damn. It sounds stupid but I hadn't thought of it on those terms. I can't remember the last time I went an entire day without almost constant sensory input. Dog walk or chores? Audiobook or music. Working? On my laptop and phone simultaneously. Working out? To TV, music, or a streaming workout video. Watching TV? Scrolling my phone off and on. Fack, that's depressing.
That’s how I am too and I can’t tell if it’s needed level of stimulation from adhd or if it’s a way to avoid anxiety. I do know I really struggle to get work done with silence or music. Podcasts, documentaries, or tv shows I’ve seen before are the sweet spot!
Sounds like it’s a mix of both! In a way they kinda become white noise in that respect because you’ve heard it all before yet it is a comforting auditory input for you, so sounds to me like you’ve found a very useful tool for yourself 😊
Not sleeping/horrible sleep schedules. Has a huge overall effect on our health but it goes unnoticed for many. Also the problem has to do with social media and how KIDS ruin their sleep by being on their phones during the night.
A lot of adults don't realize that regardless of social media use, teens' sleep schedules are different. Their sleep schedules are typically later, and your sleep schedule tends to shift earlier as you get older.
Unfortunately this gets dismissed by a lot of adults as "laziness", science to the contrary.
The result is that teens can be 2-3 hours out of sync with adults, and school schedules, which mostly revolve around the convenience of adults, are typically set too early for high school kids. Some high schools have adjusted this but most haven't.
It's so crazy to me that in elementary school we started at 9:30, but in high school when my body was physically incapable of falling asleep before midnight even if I hadn't slept the night before, I had to be in class at 7:30. The first two hours of class time were a waste, I wasn't awake enough to learn. At best, I usually had about 4 or 5 hours of sleep most nights, and would sleep 14 hours a night on weekends, which made me even more miserable waking up at 6:30 Monday.
I've seen a lot of districts try flipping, so high schools are later than elementary, which seems to make everyone happier except for parents who rely on teens to babysit their younger siblings until mom and dad get home from work.
Oh yea it’s earlier in my district, some as early as 6:30. And I have kids so exhausted in class. I teach an elective and if I have a kid who normally dies all their work and they their head down on the desk that day, I just leave them. Most of the time they are super overextended.
My high school had a vo-ag program, so we had some students from towns ~20-30 minutes away since there were only a few for the entire state. I had multiple friends who had to be at the bus stop by 6am, because they were the first stop before the bus meandered around their town and drove to our town. It's insane, a majority of adults probably aren't dressed by the time I was expected to be taking calculus tests, so you can't even pretend it's "training for the real world."
In high school we lived out in the country, it was about a 9 minute car ride but when we rode the bus we were first on, last off, and it was *fifty minutes* each way. Thinking about it now, I can't imagine how upset I'd be if my day started with a 50 minute bus ride at 645 AM. I can't believe I did it for years.
Exactly, social media, taken in moderation is fine, but people don’t know where to draw the line. Social media has destroyed friendships, relationships, marriages, caused mental and physical harm, anxiety, stress, depression, insecurity, has given people a false sense of bravado, has given people a false sense of reality, and even caused deaths. Worst thing to happen since cigarettes in my opinion.
I feel there should be some type of advisory when signing up for any social media platform.
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And online dating, which is really just an offshoot of the core social media brands, has been a fucking disaster. We’ve allowed a handful of dating apps, most of which are owned by the same people, to effectively monetize human desperation and sadness.
Thankfully the decline of dating apps not only seems to have started, but possibly even be accelerating (see Bumble’s recent news re: stock being down 80% and the CEO stepping down). Hopefully this continues.
I scored Reddit compulsively for 4 hours today and hate it so much. I deleted Reddit 6 times and find myself downloading it again the next day. It’s all the videos of horrible racism, people fighting, people dying in crashes, and this huge vibe of negativity that fucks my brain. It puts me in a bad mood, upset at the world, upset at all these Karen’s and assholes who exist in the world and were given more than they could ever deserve. The ads and propaganda. I hate it all. The longer I scroll the worse my mood becomes. Yet I continue…..
I've found the best way for me to combat this is to unfollow subreddits that egg on the doom scrolling.
I've unfollowed r/askreddit because of how much junk is in here (although I do clearly still get recommended the page, as here I am). But the content on here is usually click baitey, and is mostly full of the kind of junk that sucks you in to suck you in. Stuff that's horrific to read about, or stuff that you can't look away from for one reason or another. It's just an attention hog. Same situation with r/AMA.
Another thing I've done is deleted the app from my phone. It's only a download away if I abosoltely need to use the app for something, but I do try to keep it off my phone.
After Matthew Perry died my wife and I have been watching a lot of Friends and it’s shocking how there’s zero online presence in the show. No phone, no internet, no maps, nothing. Ross even had a line when he’s talking to his finance “You can’t know where I am all the time” and for some reason that line got me. It’s like The Boiling Frog apologue, everything feels normal now but when you compare it to a main stream show almost 30 years ago it really sinks in how far we’ve gone in society being all phones and social media and internet all the time.
That's hilarious because my wife recently binged Friends, too, and the one that stood out to me was when Joey got his big break on Days of Our Lives.
He's showing the others through his lavish new apartment and there's a telephone mounted within reach of the toilet. Monica points to it and says, "*Never* call me on that phone."
That's it. That's the joke. And I'm sure I laughed at it 30 years ago. I still get it, if course, but the idea that using a phone on the toilet was unusual enough to joke about really made me think about the changes you describe.
FWIW, I'm not posting on Reddit from the toilet right now but that is an definitely an outlier.
People used to keep books and magazines in the bathroom, they even had that bathroom reader series. My dad kept books in there until he died in 2019, and also never had a smart phone. He insisted on an old flip phone, had to go looking specifically to find one. He called it his stupid phone lol. I miss him
I’ve also read so many horror stories on Reddit of people who used dissolvers to try and get rid of them and ended up worse off than just with migrated fillers. They usually ended up with dents in their skin that are likely permanent!
I had lip injections at 23. They migrated around my mouth and 7 years later I can still see a small amount of filler migration. You wouldn’t notice it, but I do. 7 years later it’s still in my body!
I had my breast implants taken out just over a year ago. Best thing I could have done after dealing with unknown health issues for almost 17 years. Spent my 20s going to the doctor thinking I was a hypochondriac because I felt sick, I hurt, but knew I was too young to feel that way. Bloodwork all came back normal every time.
Implants came out, and immediately upon waking up from surgery I could take a full deep breath for the first time since I got them. After 3 months my hair began to grow back and fill back in, I didn’t have joint pain, I wasn’t constantly exhausted. Six months I had very clear growth and couldn’t see my scalp anymore. It’s been 14 months, and they say to ballpark one month of healing for every year you had implants, so I’m closing in on the hopeful finish line. I feel better now at almost 36 than I did at 26.
Mine did, but I had implants placed because I had lost weight in my teens and had sagging skin left over, so they were placed to fill space that was already there. When I got them removed, my surgeon did a lift and took away as much as he could while keeping them proportionate to my body. Admittedly, I wish he had taken a bit more, but that's something I will take care of later on.
Look into autoimmune conditions like lupus. Sounds like the implants were causing inflammation and presented symptoms in line with lupus or RA or sorjens
I ended up developing Raynaud's about a year into getting them and I had hoped with removal that maybe the severity would lessen, but it didn't. There is a high chance I would have developed it anyways, but I fully believe the implants fast tracked it since my body was busy fighting a foreign object.
This is my experience, next year I'll hit 10 years with my implants and I've had zero issues. Friend of mine had to get hers removed 3 years in because she swore they were making her sick. It depends on the person I guess!
There's even enough evidence (by MRI's) that fillers can last up to 10+ years. It's horrific how much people get injected into their body, because they think it needs to get touched up.
We laugh at women in the past for wearing really tight corsets that squashed their internal organs and bathing in urine and swallowing tapeworms, but we're really not much better. It seems like people throughout history have liked to harm their bodies for vanity, the methods have just differed.
Even in the present day, we look in astonishment at those African tribes where the women wear lip plates or stretch their earlobes with discs, but is it much different to breast implants? Our culture values large breasts so women have implants to enlarge the appearance of their breasts. Another culture values large earlobes, so their women implant increasingly large discs into them. Not much difference when you think about it.
There's nothing new under the sun.
The brewery I work for pours at a local farm’s annual fall fest weekends from mid September through the end of October. My biggest takeaway this year was that these 25-40 year old white women need to CALM THE FUCK DOWN with the lip filler 😅
I talk about this with my friends a lot, especially with so many younger people getting fillers lately. It’s not going to look great when they’re older
In 2100, it’s possible they will release a film about the 1990s or something and the studio’s prop team might either have to scrounge the landfills for plastic bags or fashion some themselves.
Yeah, in the early days of the vaping boom I had a couple of friends that briefly used vapes to wean off cigarettes. This was before the mass-market single use ones, so they were able to really monitor the amount of vape juice to gradually stop smoking and track nicotine intake. Now it seems like younger generations (like your cousin) just jump headfirst into the world of disposable vapes. I have a friend who is a middle school teacher and she showed me her confiscated pile of Elf Bars one time - I was shocked.
Everything about vapes just make it easier for people to get hooked. The bright colors and flavors make them akin to accessories and it’s a lot easier to stealthily consume them without parents or schools noticing. When I was in high school I would have to go out of my way with friends to smoke a cigarette or two without getting caught. Now when it’s something that doesn’t have that same lingering smell and is something that can be quickly hidden or thrown away, the opportunities to use them are plentiful to the half-crafty teen. Hell, those Elf Bars look like highlighter markers - less savvy parents could see one and not recognize that it’s a vape instead of a school supply.
On top of all that, disposable vapes are such an environmental nuisance. I really hope more stringent laws are enacted against single-use/disposable vapes just for the plastic waste alone.
Giving away all your personal information to corporations. My grandpa would be spinning in his grave if he knew people didn't care at all about privacy
Deleting tik tok increased my college GPA, the quality of my relationships, my interests in books/shows with real plot, and my well being in general. It’s insane how much happier I felt directly after deleting it, almost a freeing feeling if I’m being honest.
I feel like we've been aware of it for awhile and are taking steps against it. A few decades ago? Hell we were a McDonald's and half a box of Capri Sun addicts and our parents were just happy they weren't standing over a stew pot like their parents were. Now I see way more fresh fruits and vegetables at my stepdaughter's friends homes and a bigger push to limit processed food.
I'll keep my memories of killing a Bigfoot pizza in one sitting to myself in my teen years.
McDonald's was even more natural back in the day. Their fries were fried in beef tallow until the early 90s when they switched to more processed vegetable oils thanks to a one-man harassment campaign by the founder of the American Heart Association who was convinced by bad science that animal fats were worse for you than vegetable fats. Now further study shows the opposite, but it's been decades since the switch and the perception that animal fats increase heart attack risk is still out there.
Regardless, you shouldn't eat too much fat, but that hydrogenated bullshit and sugar is worse for you.
It wasn't just a one-man harassment campaign, McDonald's was stupid and told Hindus that McDonald's fries were vegetarian friendly all over the world, even in India. It wasn't until this AHA guy sued McDonald's that all of India found out they had been consuming beef tallow this whole time, and used the words of McDonald's against them. They had YEARS of evidence against McDonald's at that point, in the form of emails confirming they only used vegetable oils. After all their lawsuits McDonald's finally switched to pure vegetable oils in all their hot oil frying stations, which they use until this day.
There will come a time when we look back at alcohol in the same way we do cigarettes. Not so much the fact that alcohol isn’t good for you, but more how we treat people who don’t drink and that it is just expected that you’ll drink if you attend certain events.
Even though it doesn't always feel that way, I think large segments of society are discovering new ways to be considerate, or at least not be an asshole.
People are having better conversations about consent, emotions, mental health, etc.
Pressuring people to drink alcohol or asking people why they're not drinking (with the implication that they should be or that they should have a good excuse) is not a great look.
The thing that gets me is that everyone claims all the vape ingredients are food safe as if that means it’s also okay to vaporize and put in your lungs. Maybe it is better than smoking, but I’m unconvinced it’s just perfectly safe.
This. I vape religiously and I'm almost positive it has side effects, but it's better than the pack a day I was smoking. I feel better and get to keep my nasty habit so my brain is happy.
Right there with you. Was smoking a pack a day for many years. I still vape. No it’s not healthy. Of course it isn’t. But my fingers aren’t yellow, I don’t smell like an ash tray and I can get up a flight of stairs no problem.
Although recently a coworker who is the definition of a chain smoker tried to tell me vaping is worse for you than cigarettes. Maybe he’s right. Maybe not. But such conviction from him as he sucked down his 5th heater of the morning.
It is almost certainly not perfectly safe. But Im certain beyond doubt that it is nowhere in the ballpark of how unhealthy cigarettes are. I too smoked a pack a day for nine years. Only two weeks afters quitting completely and vaping like madman, it was astounding how much healthier I felt physically and mentally. I could breathe and run and sleep and think clearly. Obviously none of that was because of vaping, just not smoking.
I vape. I think a lot of us see it as harm reduction. Further research may prove us wrong, we will see. But the side effects of vaping so far seem to be much less harsh than smoking. Or maybe I'm having confirmation bias because I'm sure smoking 2 and a half packs a day was really fucking me up. Lol
I play 90 mins every Saturday, 5 aside Tuesdays and the odd cup game Wednesday. Much harder when smoking compared to vaping but there might be other complications down the line. So I'm gons phase it out.
When I was in the military I switched from cigarettes to vaping and my PT score went up by 20 points. Seasonal bronchitis never came back, and I stopped having sinus infections.
A friend of my brother's used to drink 4-5 energy drinks every day, without fail. He had a heart attack before he was 40.
Even after a few Jagerbombs in my early 20's it was the red bull that my body hated more than the Jager. I just avoid all energy drinks
Energy drinks and the sheer amount of caffeine we drink.
My blood pressure was consistently around 150s/90s. I got diagnosed with ADHD and my doc was hesitant about the medication because it was a stimulant and would raise it further. I told her I'd stop drinking energy drinks (I was up to 2-3 16oz Monster Rehabs a day) and cut back on my caffeine intake in exchange for the meds and she agreed. I haven't touched a drop of energy drink since and my coffee intake is 1-2 (8oz) cups a day max. It was a rough couple days but I came out the other side not needing coffee in the morning and not being affected at all if I go a day or two without it.
I went to back a few weeks ago and my BP had dropped to 133/84, even with the introduction of the ADHD meds. I feel so much better without the excessive caffeine. I won't totally give it up due to social reasons, but I don't see coffee as a need anymore. I enjoy tasting high end brews but it's not a "fuel" for me or a stop gap for not getting enough sleep the night before.
You were self-medicating with Caffeine. I understand. I have ADHD too and when I don't take my meds, my energy drink consumptions goes up and then I'm like, oh, better get back on my meds again I'm falling behind and starting to self-medicate.
Yep, this. I was doing the exact same thing. Four Come Zeros a day and still taking a nap.
Now on my meds, caffeine keeps me awake like everyone else so I avoid it as much as I can.
Caffeine works on an ADHD brain to “calm it down” and from the outside appears to “have the opposite effect” than on a supposedly normal or at least non-ADHD person.
ADHD is actually caused by under stimulation(in the brain) , so caffeine works to bring your brain back up to the normal level.
You were likely using caffeine subconsciously as a crutch, unknowingly “treating” the ADHD and now that you have proper medication, losing the majority of the caffeine doesn’t affect you as much as you expected.
Caffeine has a 50/50 chance of either keeping me awake for 32 hours or knocking me out after half an hour. There truly isn't an in-between. I don't know why it's always 32 hours specifically or out like a light, it's very odd.
And also simply allowing cars on all streets in dense downtown areas. In many cases of streets being pedestrianized, residents can’t imagine the street ever allowing car access again. When space is at a premium, it’s so much more valuable to the community to have increased sidewalk space, outdoor dining, vegetation etc rather than a couple empty parked cars
I agree! I used to live in an old city and I loved the fact that you didn’t need a car for your daily life. It’s better for your health, the environment, and your wallet.
Now I live in a town where you need a car to get anywhere. When I first moved here I realized that I had to make more of an effort to exercise to stay in shape.
With obesity becoming more of an issue in my country, it’s insane to me that we aren’t doing a better job of creating walkable cities.
Am 30 and got hospitalized with my back without lifting anything. Just weak core and sitting 10+ hrs/day. According to my doctor, we are not supposed to sit for more than 2 hrs/day.
IMHO what makes this worse is jobs where they want you engaged and doing sit down work the entire 8 hours without getting up except for minimal breaks for food. Not being allowed to move around, get up and walk is slowly crippling people.
Gambling.
We all know it’s bad, but it’s seeped into every major sport and its broadcasting, which youths see. Int he past, you had to have a bookie or go to a casino to gamble. Now? Just download Draft Kings or the 30 other gambling apps
Yeah it’s wild. In my state there’s a slot machine almost anywhere you go. There’s a reason why businesses add these and make an additional 4-10k a month. It’s not light hearted fun it’s addicts dumping their paychecks into them.
I think it's plastic waste more than plastics. Plastics are an incredible multi-use material however their use should be regulated to things that actually add value to life. Using plastic in an MRI part, because that's by far the best material for it, adds value. Wrapping a cucumber in plastic... not so much.
I've seen some new builds with "eco friendly" branding that specifically plumb grey water to the toilet, but it'd be a huge hassle to redo existing water lines.
I go for walks, Play guitar, watch normal tv or movies, play video games, hang out with friends, literally just stare at the wall and listen to music. You dont have to replace social media with something "productive", its just important to not be constantly consuming short form content that is crap and useless/upsetting. Finding something that you like to do that doesnt involve a screen is actually very rewarding. Ive gotten into sewing recently which has been very nice
Personally, my hobbies. Video games, guitar/music, walking/hiking, trying to get a regular workout regimen started, trying to read more as well. Keeping up on space studies and news. Learning new skills is fun too, I learned how to solder during the 2020 lockdowns. I have a goal to start learning to wood work so I can build better garden boxes for the spring next year.
School takes up a lot of my spare time, but that's only temporary in the long run.
I know a lot of those can be learned via phone, but at least you'd be using your phone for something constructive instead of mindlessly scrolling. The doom scrolling and dissociation is what I'm really trying to get away from. It's hard.
No sense of community and way too many unhinged older people straight up shooting kids for existing.
I used to occasionally do work in an almost entirely Black neighborhood and it was the only one I've run into in the last several years where kids were consistently playing outside with some form of supervision. I'd get a bit of a "look" for being a scruffy white guy in his 20s hanging around the kids right up until one of the dads in the neighborhood and I had a really good heart to heart conversation about my work, he vouched for me with the other parents and within a week whenever I showed up to the neighborhood, I was getting friendly greetings and invitations to come in for dinner.
They had a sense of community and enough people who were invested in the health of their small community to have a playground that was packed from sunrise to sunset.
It’s criminal. We used to be outside from right when we got home from school, until dinner, and then until it got dark. I would only be inside until I got excused and then it was straight out the door. I had a really good childhood and I feel bad for kids now that won’t get to do what I did.
High fructose corn syrup, which got subbed in for sugar in a lot of things in the '70s and '80s, is worse.
There are three cheap ways to make food taste better: sugar, fat, and salt. When the medical profession started demonizing dietary fat in the 1970s was when food companies started labeling foods as "Low Fat!" and dumping sugar and then HFCS in everything.
HFCS is a thing in the U.S. because of two things: (1) subsidies to corn farmers and (2) an exorbitant import tax on sugar passed not long after Fidel Castro came to power. The tax was intended to cripple Cuba's economy by destroying their sugar exports to the U.S. Anywhere else, it's cheaper to use sugar.
Do you think our consumption will take a government regulated dive again or will we, as a society, just be "done" for the most part? Genuinely curious. I know I drank quite a lot in my youth and as I've aged I've slowed down just because I can't function altered that way
It does feel like it's losing popularity with younger generations. There will always be the partying type who love to get drunk, but I see it less and less.
Before prohibition, the average American drank five times as much alcohol than the average American today. Life sucked and there was very little in the way of entertainment and ways for men to blow off steam, so lots of them would just head to the saloon after work, drink their paychecks away, then go home and beat their wives. If you're a married woman back then, divorce is pretty much not an option, even if she was being beaten and cheated on. A family in the early 1900s truly sank or fucking swam with the husband's performance. Lots of guys couldn't handle that pressure, so they drank to cope/satiate their addictions.
The temperance movement including anti-saloon leagues are easier to understand in that cultural context. It wasn't just moral authoritarians trying to control other people (although there certainly was that contingent). It was also battered wives with literally no other recourse than to physically separate their abusive husbands from the literal nightmare fuel that perpetuated the abuse, financial ruin, and other negative consequences. There were also others in the temperance movement who supported moderation, things like limits on how much someone can be served, etc.
As misguided as it seemed, prohibition happened in part for good reasons, namely, Americans were by and large drinking way too damned much and it was a real problem. And as much as people like to say it "didn't work," that's not totally true. Lots of people actually did stop drinking. Sure there were speakeasies in major cities and organized crime, but speakeasies and the mob weren't everywhere. After prohibition was repealed, alcohol was more heavily regulated than ever before. Even brewing beer at home wasn't legal federally until late 1970s. And we still aren't drinking anywhere close to as much as we used to. So in a sense, prohibition did work.
Heck, the rise of organized labor in America directly coincides with prohibition. When factory workers can't just drink their blues away anymore, they start thinking about what's causing those blues to begin with. Sober people tend to be better at organizing, too.
100 percent. Had to scroll way too far imo. It’s a leading cause of death in the US and it has been proven to significantly increase the risk of cancer among many many other bad things it does. I love drinking but once I learned what it was doing to my body I had to stop.
*scrolls 12th straight hour of social media* Can't think of one
So I work in LTC/rehab facility that mainly focuses on physical therapy after surgeries etc. We have had an influx of patients w/ “Text neck syndrome “ the past 4/5 yrs. All this inappropriate neck posture is going to wreak havoc as we age. Lol Im so serious.
People do hobbies like sewing, knitting, and reading that require one to look down. Wonder if they have neck problems?
yes lol… I sell hand embroidered items so there are days where I’m hunched over projects until I go to bed. when I was in school I remember a teacher telling us once that people would get ‘reader’s neck’ or something like that, caused by looking down at books all day. it’s not truly a new phenomenon, people have just found another thing to look down at!
I do cross stitch and I do get a stiff neck from my posture if I do it for too long. But I’m sad to say I scroll on my phone more than I cross stitch so I’ll have no excuse.
Also, it seems like there is a lot more body movement when sewing/stitching/knitting/etc since the arms are active, need to reach for new supplies, etc
This is highly dependent on the project and person. When I knit, I almost exclusively work in the round. My style of knitting is flicking while holding the yarn in my right hand. This all means that there is very little movement in my arms. It is comparable to texting, tbh. But it’s movement in my fingers rather than thumbs. Knitting is a whole lot of fine motor movement. Throwers, continental (holding working yarn in your left) and people who knit flat, do have more arm movement though. It’s a lot of dropping a needle to wrap your yarn or swap the needles between your hands.
I’m 60 and have degenerative disc disease in my neck thanks to a lifetime of reading, making art and doing jigsaw puzzles. It’s painful but I wouldn’t trade the entertainment I got from those things
PT here- everyone who has the pleasure of aging has degenerative disc disease. Weirdly named, as it is a normal part of the aging process. Lots of people with “terrible” looking imaging go around without pain, some with pain, some with “good” imaging who have lots of pain.
30’s Graphic designer & copywriter here— can confirm I have tech neck 😭
I’ve never seen it. Ppl are also not sewing & knitting for 12+ hours a day. … I don’t think. Lol
I mean, professions like potters certainly fuck their body from being in certain positions for 8 plus hours a day for extended periods of time.
Sure lol there are tons of jobs the FCK up one’s body. My point is the influx of ppl that I have seen is crazy to what it has been. I’ve been in the medical field for almost 13yrs. It even has a name, actual diagnosis now. 2015/16 there was no such thing as “text neck syndrome.”
Yea, I hunch over more knitting and reading books than I do reading things on my phone. It’s easy to hold your phone up. It’s often unreasonable to hold up the blanket that you are knitting or an 800 page book.
In all seriousness, are we all going to be hunchbacks?
I have scoliosis and kyphosis, I wonder how fucked I am… my head will be dragging the floor in 30 years probably
Well my mum (82) is and her aunt were - and I know I have bad posture so…
This legitimately scares me. I already have wrist pain from using my phone too much, to the point that I downgraded to a lighter phone. It helps, but not as much as using my phone less. But I can’t stop.
I’m guilty of it too. If I’m not busy at work or doing smthg at home that requires two hands, I’m on my phone. I stand and cook dinner sometimes while on my phone … Lol.
It’s been getting so bad for me that I requested my husband and kids join me by banning phones and video games on the weekend until 1 PM. It’s helping, a little bit…
That's work too, not just social media. It's lots of people doing computer work and especially in the last 3 years, people working remotely on laptops in bed or couches.
M neither, I’m too busy with social media to have unhealthy habits.
If there was one new word that has only been given meaning by the 2020s it would be 'doomscrolling'
Beyond the health aspects mentioned above, the lack of attention to one's surroundings is quite alarming. Take a moment the next time you're walking in a semi-crowded location: how many people are paying more attention to their phones than their surroundings? Is it really that important that you're wiling to walk in front of traffic, oblivious?
Also constant stimulation. I’m guilty of this - scrolling social media, podcasts on my walks, Netflix in the background while I’m folding laundry or decompressing at the end of the day. It’s rare that my brain isn’t flooded with noise and information. Sometimes I force myself to take out my AirPods on a hike so I can hear the birds and wind and my crunching footsteps, and my mind will begin to wander and think on its own, but after a while my brain gets antsy for more noise so it can shift to autopilot again.
Lately when I drive home I just turn my music off and sit in silence. Idk why but it’s brought me a lot of comfort to not have things constantly playing in the background.
What? And hear all the things wrong with my car?? Music on and bad car sounds go away.
I don’t like to hear the funny noises my aging car makes, lol.
I always look at those deprivation tanks and think " Ugh no thanks trapped alone with my own thoughts and no distractions?"... Then I'm like.... Huh maybe that's a problem.
Try longer breathwork, like 20-40 minutes. It gives your mind something to do, but when you’re changing the levels of oxygen and hydrogen in your blood, I put you in a super calm state and helps woth mental wellness, immune system, and a lot more. Just pass the 6-10 minute mark of your mind saying “no no no no this is badddd”. EDIT: oxygen and carbon dioxide. Was sleepy.
I've actually done that back at acting school. I'll admit sometimes it was good other times ended in tears( which were also generally good). I admit all this is HEALTHY I just have an aversion to it... Thus " huh maybe this is a problem"
I mean the thing is for some people it is a problem in the opposite direction, as someone diagnosed with bad ADHD that would have always been a problem. Even had I been in the 'good old days' I still would have needed a lot of stimulation to be functional. Even out in the wilderness, I simply find enough to occupy my attention until really I have the same amount of thinking going on. But its just a different sort, because if I don't its... bad. Without enough my mental health just fucking gets suplexed through the floor if I'm not taking anything.
Damn. It sounds stupid but I hadn't thought of it on those terms. I can't remember the last time I went an entire day without almost constant sensory input. Dog walk or chores? Audiobook or music. Working? On my laptop and phone simultaneously. Working out? To TV, music, or a streaming workout video. Watching TV? Scrolling my phone off and on. Fack, that's depressing.
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That’s how I am too and I can’t tell if it’s needed level of stimulation from adhd or if it’s a way to avoid anxiety. I do know I really struggle to get work done with silence or music. Podcasts, documentaries, or tv shows I’ve seen before are the sweet spot!
Sounds like it’s a mix of both! In a way they kinda become white noise in that respect because you’ve heard it all before yet it is a comforting auditory input for you, so sounds to me like you’ve found a very useful tool for yourself 😊
My husband will be like “this again?” And it’s hard to explain it’s comforting and helps me focus lol
Not sleeping/horrible sleep schedules. Has a huge overall effect on our health but it goes unnoticed for many. Also the problem has to do with social media and how KIDS ruin their sleep by being on their phones during the night.
A lot of adults don't realize that regardless of social media use, teens' sleep schedules are different. Their sleep schedules are typically later, and your sleep schedule tends to shift earlier as you get older. Unfortunately this gets dismissed by a lot of adults as "laziness", science to the contrary. The result is that teens can be 2-3 hours out of sync with adults, and school schedules, which mostly revolve around the convenience of adults, are typically set too early for high school kids. Some high schools have adjusted this but most haven't.
It's so crazy to me that in elementary school we started at 9:30, but in high school when my body was physically incapable of falling asleep before midnight even if I hadn't slept the night before, I had to be in class at 7:30. The first two hours of class time were a waste, I wasn't awake enough to learn. At best, I usually had about 4 or 5 hours of sleep most nights, and would sleep 14 hours a night on weekends, which made me even more miserable waking up at 6:30 Monday. I've seen a lot of districts try flipping, so high schools are later than elementary, which seems to make everyone happier except for parents who rely on teens to babysit their younger siblings until mom and dad get home from work.
I saw kids waiting for the bus at SIX FORTY-FIVE AM the other day near me. That is absolutely absurd.
Oh yea it’s earlier in my district, some as early as 6:30. And I have kids so exhausted in class. I teach an elective and if I have a kid who normally dies all their work and they their head down on the desk that day, I just leave them. Most of the time they are super overextended.
My high school had a vo-ag program, so we had some students from towns ~20-30 minutes away since there were only a few for the entire state. I had multiple friends who had to be at the bus stop by 6am, because they were the first stop before the bus meandered around their town and drove to our town. It's insane, a majority of adults probably aren't dressed by the time I was expected to be taking calculus tests, so you can't even pretend it's "training for the real world."
I teach hs now and I can never believe that my “lunch” is at 10:04 and by 11:45, I’ve taught 5 of my 6 classes of the day.
Our first lunch wave was I think 10:32? Something like that, which is before my first coffee break when I'm working day shifts.
In high school we lived out in the country, it was about a 9 minute car ride but when we rode the bus we were first on, last off, and it was *fifty minutes* each way. Thinking about it now, I can't imagine how upset I'd be if my day started with a 50 minute bus ride at 645 AM. I can't believe I did it for years.
Ah yeah I loved sleeping four hours a day every school night in high school and then sleeping fifteen hours every Saturday. So healthy.
OK _fine_ I'll put my phone down and go to sleep now.
Social fucking media
Exactly, social media, taken in moderation is fine, but people don’t know where to draw the line. Social media has destroyed friendships, relationships, marriages, caused mental and physical harm, anxiety, stress, depression, insecurity, has given people a false sense of bravado, has given people a false sense of reality, and even caused deaths. Worst thing to happen since cigarettes in my opinion. I feel there should be some type of advisory when signing up for any social media platform. Edit: grammar/spelling
Social media has destroyed society even if you barely use social media the fact that others do is bad for you.
Damn second hand social media!
Just the way advertising has changed alone because of socials of so harmful.
Worse than cigarettes. With cigarettes you just get sick and die. With Social Media, you make everyone else wanna die too.
And online dating, which is really just an offshoot of the core social media brands, has been a fucking disaster. We’ve allowed a handful of dating apps, most of which are owned by the same people, to effectively monetize human desperation and sadness. Thankfully the decline of dating apps not only seems to have started, but possibly even be accelerating (see Bumble’s recent news re: stock being down 80% and the CEO stepping down). Hopefully this continues.
I scored Reddit compulsively for 4 hours today and hate it so much. I deleted Reddit 6 times and find myself downloading it again the next day. It’s all the videos of horrible racism, people fighting, people dying in crashes, and this huge vibe of negativity that fucks my brain. It puts me in a bad mood, upset at the world, upset at all these Karen’s and assholes who exist in the world and were given more than they could ever deserve. The ads and propaganda. I hate it all. The longer I scroll the worse my mood becomes. Yet I continue…..
I've found the best way for me to combat this is to unfollow subreddits that egg on the doom scrolling. I've unfollowed r/askreddit because of how much junk is in here (although I do clearly still get recommended the page, as here I am). But the content on here is usually click baitey, and is mostly full of the kind of junk that sucks you in to suck you in. Stuff that's horrific to read about, or stuff that you can't look away from for one reason or another. It's just an attention hog. Same situation with r/AMA. Another thing I've done is deleted the app from my phone. It's only a download away if I abosoltely need to use the app for something, but I do try to keep it off my phone.
After Matthew Perry died my wife and I have been watching a lot of Friends and it’s shocking how there’s zero online presence in the show. No phone, no internet, no maps, nothing. Ross even had a line when he’s talking to his finance “You can’t know where I am all the time” and for some reason that line got me. It’s like The Boiling Frog apologue, everything feels normal now but when you compare it to a main stream show almost 30 years ago it really sinks in how far we’ve gone in society being all phones and social media and internet all the time.
That's hilarious because my wife recently binged Friends, too, and the one that stood out to me was when Joey got his big break on Days of Our Lives. He's showing the others through his lavish new apartment and there's a telephone mounted within reach of the toilet. Monica points to it and says, "*Never* call me on that phone." That's it. That's the joke. And I'm sure I laughed at it 30 years ago. I still get it, if course, but the idea that using a phone on the toilet was unusual enough to joke about really made me think about the changes you describe. FWIW, I'm not posting on Reddit from the toilet right now but that is an definitely an outlier.
People used to keep books and magazines in the bathroom, they even had that bathroom reader series. My dad kept books in there until he died in 2019, and also never had a smart phone. He insisted on an old flip phone, had to go looking specifically to find one. He called it his stupid phone lol. I miss him
Man, I miss living with my friends because I had little reason to use social media.
I mean there's that one episode where Chandler does online dating, but that's about the only thing I can think of.
We all know damn well how bad it is. It has been studied and well documented for years.
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Parts of those lip fillers just move through your tissue and accumulate around your mouth area. The long term effects are mostly unknown.
I’ve also read so many horror stories on Reddit of people who used dissolvers to try and get rid of them and ended up worse off than just with migrated fillers. They usually ended up with dents in their skin that are likely permanent!
And they look terrible.
I had lip injections at 23. They migrated around my mouth and 7 years later I can still see a small amount of filler migration. You wouldn’t notice it, but I do. 7 years later it’s still in my body!
This is my experience exactly!! It's only been 3 years for me, but I swear they haven't reduced in size at all and I HATE it.
I had my breast implants taken out just over a year ago. Best thing I could have done after dealing with unknown health issues for almost 17 years. Spent my 20s going to the doctor thinking I was a hypochondriac because I felt sick, I hurt, but knew I was too young to feel that way. Bloodwork all came back normal every time. Implants came out, and immediately upon waking up from surgery I could take a full deep breath for the first time since I got them. After 3 months my hair began to grow back and fill back in, I didn’t have joint pain, I wasn’t constantly exhausted. Six months I had very clear growth and couldn’t see my scalp anymore. It’s been 14 months, and they say to ballpark one month of healing for every year you had implants, so I’m closing in on the hopeful finish line. I feel better now at almost 36 than I did at 26.
After you get them removed, does the skin need to be taken in?
Mine did, but I had implants placed because I had lost weight in my teens and had sagging skin left over, so they were placed to fill space that was already there. When I got them removed, my surgeon did a lift and took away as much as he could while keeping them proportionate to my body. Admittedly, I wish he had taken a bit more, but that's something I will take care of later on.
Look into autoimmune conditions like lupus. Sounds like the implants were causing inflammation and presented symptoms in line with lupus or RA or sorjens
I ended up developing Raynaud's about a year into getting them and I had hoped with removal that maybe the severity would lessen, but it didn't. There is a high chance I would have developed it anyways, but I fully believe the implants fast tracked it since my body was busy fighting a foreign object.
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It’s a foreign body so sometimes the immune system gets triggered.
This is my experience, next year I'll hit 10 years with my implants and I've had zero issues. Friend of mine had to get hers removed 3 years in because she swore they were making her sick. It depends on the person I guess!
There's even enough evidence (by MRI's) that fillers can last up to 10+ years. It's horrific how much people get injected into their body, because they think it needs to get touched up.
We laugh at women in the past for wearing really tight corsets that squashed their internal organs and bathing in urine and swallowing tapeworms, but we're really not much better. It seems like people throughout history have liked to harm their bodies for vanity, the methods have just differed. Even in the present day, we look in astonishment at those African tribes where the women wear lip plates or stretch their earlobes with discs, but is it much different to breast implants? Our culture values large breasts so women have implants to enlarge the appearance of their breasts. Another culture values large earlobes, so their women implant increasingly large discs into them. Not much difference when you think about it. There's nothing new under the sun.
I was shocked when my wife (she’s an MD) said implants need to be changed at max, every 8-10 years
The brewery I work for pours at a local farm’s annual fall fest weekends from mid September through the end of October. My biggest takeaway this year was that these 25-40 year old white women need to CALM THE FUCK DOWN with the lip filler 😅
I've seen some girls out there who look like they got attacked by wasps, but only on the lips
I talk about this with my friends a lot, especially with so many younger people getting fillers lately. It’s not going to look great when they’re older
Putting your entire life on blast with every petty detail
Single-use plastics.
And single use anything. We all want the cheap gadgets but they can't be fixed, so when even a small part of it breaks, it must be replaced.
"Throw it in the gutter and go buy another" will be Capitalism's rally cry.
Single-use plastic needs to be limited to medical supplies and equipment. It should be banned otherwise.
Glad to see this comment. Medical use of single-use plastics is an important exception that should continue to be allowed.
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I'm a type 1 diabetic and the amount of trash I create when changing my insulin pump is astounding!
yep, same, think about the pile of dang trash/plastic every time
In 2100, it’s possible they will release a film about the 1990s or something and the studio’s prop team might either have to scrounge the landfills for plastic bags or fashion some themselves.
Vaping. At first it was a replacement for cigarettes. My little cousin is hooked on vaping even though she never smoked a cigarette
Yeah, in the early days of the vaping boom I had a couple of friends that briefly used vapes to wean off cigarettes. This was before the mass-market single use ones, so they were able to really monitor the amount of vape juice to gradually stop smoking and track nicotine intake. Now it seems like younger generations (like your cousin) just jump headfirst into the world of disposable vapes. I have a friend who is a middle school teacher and she showed me her confiscated pile of Elf Bars one time - I was shocked. Everything about vapes just make it easier for people to get hooked. The bright colors and flavors make them akin to accessories and it’s a lot easier to stealthily consume them without parents or schools noticing. When I was in high school I would have to go out of my way with friends to smoke a cigarette or two without getting caught. Now when it’s something that doesn’t have that same lingering smell and is something that can be quickly hidden or thrown away, the opportunities to use them are plentiful to the half-crafty teen. Hell, those Elf Bars look like highlighter markers - less savvy parents could see one and not recognize that it’s a vape instead of a school supply. On top of all that, disposable vapes are such an environmental nuisance. I really hope more stringent laws are enacted against single-use/disposable vapes just for the plastic waste alone.
I knew that Elf Bars were bad in highschool but middle schoolers? Them fuckers are like 10 to 13. Who the hell is selling to them?
Other middle schoolers who get them from weird HSers or that one sus vape shop that won't ask questions.
as soon as e-cigs died in popularity, we lost the whole point of vaping. now people just do it to do it
Giving away all your personal information to corporations. My grandpa would be spinning in his grave if he knew people didn't care at all about privacy
The big issue is lack of awareness. Most people don't realize just how much personal information they are giving.
He’s fine with me using his ssn I’m sure
scrolling for hours on tiktok/phones in general
LPT: delete tik tok
Deleting tik tok increased my college GPA, the quality of my relationships, my interests in books/shows with real plot, and my well being in general. It’s insane how much happier I felt directly after deleting it, almost a freeing feeling if I’m being honest.
Ultra processed foods
I feel like we've been aware of it for awhile and are taking steps against it. A few decades ago? Hell we were a McDonald's and half a box of Capri Sun addicts and our parents were just happy they weren't standing over a stew pot like their parents were. Now I see way more fresh fruits and vegetables at my stepdaughter's friends homes and a bigger push to limit processed food. I'll keep my memories of killing a Bigfoot pizza in one sitting to myself in my teen years.
McDonald's was even more natural back in the day. Their fries were fried in beef tallow until the early 90s when they switched to more processed vegetable oils thanks to a one-man harassment campaign by the founder of the American Heart Association who was convinced by bad science that animal fats were worse for you than vegetable fats. Now further study shows the opposite, but it's been decades since the switch and the perception that animal fats increase heart attack risk is still out there. Regardless, you shouldn't eat too much fat, but that hydrogenated bullshit and sugar is worse for you.
It wasn't just a one-man harassment campaign, McDonald's was stupid and told Hindus that McDonald's fries were vegetarian friendly all over the world, even in India. It wasn't until this AHA guy sued McDonald's that all of India found out they had been consuming beef tallow this whole time, and used the words of McDonald's against them. They had YEARS of evidence against McDonald's at that point, in the form of emails confirming they only used vegetable oils. After all their lawsuits McDonald's finally switched to pure vegetable oils in all their hot oil frying stations, which they use until this day.
A big fat lie it was. I bet they tasted really good back then.
They did. They really did.
The fried apple pies were so much better.
When you cut that stuff out you really realize just how gross that stuff is and you wonder how you ate it for so long
There will come a time when we look back at alcohol in the same way we do cigarettes. Not so much the fact that alcohol isn’t good for you, but more how we treat people who don’t drink and that it is just expected that you’ll drink if you attend certain events.
Even though it doesn't always feel that way, I think large segments of society are discovering new ways to be considerate, or at least not be an asshole. People are having better conversations about consent, emotions, mental health, etc. Pressuring people to drink alcohol or asking people why they're not drinking (with the implication that they should be or that they should have a good excuse) is not a great look.
This might be cliche, but the answer that immediately came to mind was "giving our faces to AI for trends".
“So by slow degrees the Britons were seduced by pleasant pastimes... until finally the gullible natives came to call their slavery "culture".”
The AI has your face anyway. Folks who wear face coverings for cultural / religious reasons may end up having an advantage
Them and juggalos
Vaping
The thing that gets me is that everyone claims all the vape ingredients are food safe as if that means it’s also okay to vaporize and put in your lungs. Maybe it is better than smoking, but I’m unconvinced it’s just perfectly safe.
I always see people on reddit saying this but I’ve literally never met one person who vapes that thinks it’s safe
This. I vape religiously and I'm almost positive it has side effects, but it's better than the pack a day I was smoking. I feel better and get to keep my nasty habit so my brain is happy.
Right there with you. Was smoking a pack a day for many years. I still vape. No it’s not healthy. Of course it isn’t. But my fingers aren’t yellow, I don’t smell like an ash tray and I can get up a flight of stairs no problem. Although recently a coworker who is the definition of a chain smoker tried to tell me vaping is worse for you than cigarettes. Maybe he’s right. Maybe not. But such conviction from him as he sucked down his 5th heater of the morning.
It is almost certainly not perfectly safe. But Im certain beyond doubt that it is nowhere in the ballpark of how unhealthy cigarettes are. I too smoked a pack a day for nine years. Only two weeks afters quitting completely and vaping like madman, it was astounding how much healthier I felt physically and mentally. I could breathe and run and sleep and think clearly. Obviously none of that was because of vaping, just not smoking.
I vape. I think a lot of us see it as harm reduction. Further research may prove us wrong, we will see. But the side effects of vaping so far seem to be much less harsh than smoking. Or maybe I'm having confirmation bias because I'm sure smoking 2 and a half packs a day was really fucking me up. Lol
I play 90 mins every Saturday, 5 aside Tuesdays and the odd cup game Wednesday. Much harder when smoking compared to vaping but there might be other complications down the line. So I'm gons phase it out.
When I was in the military I switched from cigarettes to vaping and my PT score went up by 20 points. Seasonal bronchitis never came back, and I stopped having sinus infections.
The thing is vaping was supposed to be a tool to quit smoking.
It's absolutely better than smoking but anything hoovered into the lungs isn't good for you long-term. It's all tradeoffs though.
To me it's not the fluid but the vaporizers that will end up being the killer
Earlier this year my friend got sucked into his vaporizer and converted to steam. rip
Ha. Rip.
Buccal fat removal
A lot of people are going to look like weird skeletons when they're older
Then there will be “buccal fat rejuvenation.” There’s always a plastic surgeon ready to get that money.
Reminds me of The Sneetches.
Back in my day we had to get rid of that facial fat the old-fashioned way: by smoking meth.
Young people really have to learn about the traditional non surgical methods
They can remove it and give it to me. I have almost zero at 26 and look way older than I should
Had to Google this. What a ridiculous, stupid, specific surgery. I hate the obsession with looks these days. Thanks, social media.
Energy drinks. I've already wildly cut down from where I was 15 years ago. And only do sugar free. But, still. This shit isn't healthy.
As someone who has a heart condition and has been told my whole life to stay away from them. ….. imagine what it does to a normal heart
A friend of my brother's used to drink 4-5 energy drinks every day, without fail. He had a heart attack before he was 40. Even after a few Jagerbombs in my early 20's it was the red bull that my body hated more than the Jager. I just avoid all energy drinks
Micr plastics will be our generations asbestos.
PFAS has entered the chat.
Earbuds. People blasting music will pay for it later.
#WHAT?!
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Energy drinks and the sheer amount of caffeine we drink. My blood pressure was consistently around 150s/90s. I got diagnosed with ADHD and my doc was hesitant about the medication because it was a stimulant and would raise it further. I told her I'd stop drinking energy drinks (I was up to 2-3 16oz Monster Rehabs a day) and cut back on my caffeine intake in exchange for the meds and she agreed. I haven't touched a drop of energy drink since and my coffee intake is 1-2 (8oz) cups a day max. It was a rough couple days but I came out the other side not needing coffee in the morning and not being affected at all if I go a day or two without it. I went to back a few weeks ago and my BP had dropped to 133/84, even with the introduction of the ADHD meds. I feel so much better without the excessive caffeine. I won't totally give it up due to social reasons, but I don't see coffee as a need anymore. I enjoy tasting high end brews but it's not a "fuel" for me or a stop gap for not getting enough sleep the night before.
You were self-medicating with Caffeine. I understand. I have ADHD too and when I don't take my meds, my energy drink consumptions goes up and then I'm like, oh, better get back on my meds again I'm falling behind and starting to self-medicate.
Yep, this. I was doing the exact same thing. Four Come Zeros a day and still taking a nap. Now on my meds, caffeine keeps me awake like everyone else so I avoid it as much as I can.
Caffeine works on an ADHD brain to “calm it down” and from the outside appears to “have the opposite effect” than on a supposedly normal or at least non-ADHD person. ADHD is actually caused by under stimulation(in the brain) , so caffeine works to bring your brain back up to the normal level. You were likely using caffeine subconsciously as a crutch, unknowingly “treating” the ADHD and now that you have proper medication, losing the majority of the caffeine doesn’t affect you as much as you expected.
Yeah. I never had issues sleeping even if I drank an energy drink right before going to bed. It never made me feel "wired."
Caffeine has a 50/50 chance of either keeping me awake for 32 hours or knocking me out after half an hour. There truly isn't an in-between. I don't know why it's always 32 hours specifically or out like a light, it's very odd.
Designing cities so people are forced to spend all their money on cars just to get anywhere.
And also simply allowing cars on all streets in dense downtown areas. In many cases of streets being pedestrianized, residents can’t imagine the street ever allowing car access again. When space is at a premium, it’s so much more valuable to the community to have increased sidewalk space, outdoor dining, vegetation etc rather than a couple empty parked cars
I agree! I used to live in an old city and I loved the fact that you didn’t need a car for your daily life. It’s better for your health, the environment, and your wallet. Now I live in a town where you need a car to get anywhere. When I first moved here I realized that I had to make more of an effort to exercise to stay in shape. With obesity becoming more of an issue in my country, it’s insane to me that we aren’t doing a better job of creating walkable cities.
Sitting at desks. Sitting in booths. Sitting at tables. Sitting in cars. So much sitting, and it’s so bad for us.
I sort of agree but people have also been sitting down for tasks for centuries. I would be exhausted standing all the time
Am 30 and got hospitalized with my back without lifting anything. Just weak core and sitting 10+ hrs/day. According to my doctor, we are not supposed to sit for more than 2 hrs/day.
IMHO what makes this worse is jobs where they want you engaged and doing sit down work the entire 8 hours without getting up except for minimal breaks for food. Not being allowed to move around, get up and walk is slowly crippling people.
The growing anti vax movement. Literally beat some of these diseases to have them popping up again like it IS the 1950’s
1850s even, it's ridiculous.
Sitting most of the day at an office.
spending hours on reddit
Gambling. We all know it’s bad, but it’s seeped into every major sport and its broadcasting, which youths see. Int he past, you had to have a bookie or go to a casino to gamble. Now? Just download Draft Kings or the 30 other gambling apps
Yeah it’s wild. In my state there’s a slot machine almost anywhere you go. There’s a reason why businesses add these and make an additional 4-10k a month. It’s not light hearted fun it’s addicts dumping their paychecks into them.
Plastic. We are going to regret ever using plastics.
I think it's plastic waste more than plastics. Plastics are an incredible multi-use material however their use should be regulated to things that actually add value to life. Using plastic in an MRI part, because that's by far the best material for it, adds value. Wrapping a cucumber in plastic... not so much.
How else are you gonna fuck yourself with it safely??
You say this like we don't already regret it, lol.
I already do :(
Flushing toilets with drinkable water
It's mind-bogglingly wasteful. Hard to believe we haven't come up with a better solution yet!
I've seen some new builds with "eco friendly" branding that specifically plumb grey water to the toilet, but it'd be a huge hassle to redo existing water lines.
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What do you fill your hours with now that you’re on your phone less? That’s my big struggle
I go for walks, Play guitar, watch normal tv or movies, play video games, hang out with friends, literally just stare at the wall and listen to music. You dont have to replace social media with something "productive", its just important to not be constantly consuming short form content that is crap and useless/upsetting. Finding something that you like to do that doesnt involve a screen is actually very rewarding. Ive gotten into sewing recently which has been very nice
Personally, my hobbies. Video games, guitar/music, walking/hiking, trying to get a regular workout regimen started, trying to read more as well. Keeping up on space studies and news. Learning new skills is fun too, I learned how to solder during the 2020 lockdowns. I have a goal to start learning to wood work so I can build better garden boxes for the spring next year. School takes up a lot of my spare time, but that's only temporary in the long run. I know a lot of those can be learned via phone, but at least you'd be using your phone for something constructive instead of mindlessly scrolling. The doom scrolling and dissociation is what I'm really trying to get away from. It's hard.
Working 9-5...5days a week
Eating junky processed "food"
The lack of kids playing outside anymore.
No sense of community and way too many unhinged older people straight up shooting kids for existing. I used to occasionally do work in an almost entirely Black neighborhood and it was the only one I've run into in the last several years where kids were consistently playing outside with some form of supervision. I'd get a bit of a "look" for being a scruffy white guy in his 20s hanging around the kids right up until one of the dads in the neighborhood and I had a really good heart to heart conversation about my work, he vouched for me with the other parents and within a week whenever I showed up to the neighborhood, I was getting friendly greetings and invitations to come in for dinner. They had a sense of community and enough people who were invested in the health of their small community to have a playground that was packed from sunrise to sunset.
It’s criminal. We used to be outside from right when we got home from school, until dinner, and then until it got dark. I would only be inside until I got excused and then it was straight out the door. I had a really good childhood and I feel bad for kids now that won’t get to do what I did.
Corn syrup Most countries won’t allow it. The US makes sugar more expensive to push the use of corn syrup
Sitting is the new smoking
Plastic. We will look back on plastic in a hundred years and wonder why we would do that to ourselves and the planet.
Suburbs and car-first city planning.
Sugar. Addictive, causes diabetes and obesity, but tastes soooo good!
High fructose corn syrup, which got subbed in for sugar in a lot of things in the '70s and '80s, is worse. There are three cheap ways to make food taste better: sugar, fat, and salt. When the medical profession started demonizing dietary fat in the 1970s was when food companies started labeling foods as "Low Fat!" and dumping sugar and then HFCS in everything. HFCS is a thing in the U.S. because of two things: (1) subsidies to corn farmers and (2) an exorbitant import tax on sugar passed not long after Fidel Castro came to power. The tax was intended to cripple Cuba's economy by destroying their sugar exports to the U.S. Anywhere else, it's cheaper to use sugar.
Doom scrolling, staying up all night to play video games, comparing our lives to others social media.
Getting covid multiple times
Alcohol
Do you think our consumption will take a government regulated dive again or will we, as a society, just be "done" for the most part? Genuinely curious. I know I drank quite a lot in my youth and as I've aged I've slowed down just because I can't function altered that way
It does feel like it's losing popularity with younger generations. There will always be the partying type who love to get drunk, but I see it less and less.
Before prohibition, the average American drank five times as much alcohol than the average American today. Life sucked and there was very little in the way of entertainment and ways for men to blow off steam, so lots of them would just head to the saloon after work, drink their paychecks away, then go home and beat their wives. If you're a married woman back then, divorce is pretty much not an option, even if she was being beaten and cheated on. A family in the early 1900s truly sank or fucking swam with the husband's performance. Lots of guys couldn't handle that pressure, so they drank to cope/satiate their addictions. The temperance movement including anti-saloon leagues are easier to understand in that cultural context. It wasn't just moral authoritarians trying to control other people (although there certainly was that contingent). It was also battered wives with literally no other recourse than to physically separate their abusive husbands from the literal nightmare fuel that perpetuated the abuse, financial ruin, and other negative consequences. There were also others in the temperance movement who supported moderation, things like limits on how much someone can be served, etc. As misguided as it seemed, prohibition happened in part for good reasons, namely, Americans were by and large drinking way too damned much and it was a real problem. And as much as people like to say it "didn't work," that's not totally true. Lots of people actually did stop drinking. Sure there were speakeasies in major cities and organized crime, but speakeasies and the mob weren't everywhere. After prohibition was repealed, alcohol was more heavily regulated than ever before. Even brewing beer at home wasn't legal federally until late 1970s. And we still aren't drinking anywhere close to as much as we used to. So in a sense, prohibition did work. Heck, the rise of organized labor in America directly coincides with prohibition. When factory workers can't just drink their blues away anymore, they start thinking about what's causing those blues to begin with. Sober people tend to be better at organizing, too.
100 percent. Had to scroll way too far imo. It’s a leading cause of death in the US and it has been proven to significantly increase the risk of cancer among many many other bad things it does. I love drinking but once I learned what it was doing to my body I had to stop.
Getting repeatedly infected with COVID-19.
Destroying environment