Apple chose to not allow sideloading or other app stores, again, as a feature.

Ok, so maybe some cars decide not to offer seatbelts as a feature. Oh wait, they can’t, because that’s dumb.

Not having a feature that helps consumers is not a feature. When Apple prevents people from repairing their phones, that’s not a feature. When they prevent consumers from loading their own apps on their own device that they bought, that’s not a feature! It’s comically anti-competitive and bad for everyone.

I will never buy anything at Starbucks again. Used to spend like $100/month.

Hope it was worth it.

I want to congratulate you and your tutors on the incredible progress you’ve made learning to write in complete sentences. Please keep it up.

You’re not very bright, are you? Yes, communist authoritarians are competing for attention across the same medium. They’re just losing to the right-wing fascists. It’s bad from every angle.

Welp, banning reading is bad, therefore banning things unrelated to reading is also bad.

Given that social media usage has primarily resulted in right wing radicalization, it’s possible that your politics are informing your stance. However, I suspect this is more about your intelligence.

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Tak, buddy, calling you a moron would be an insult to stupid people everywhere.

So I did a quick search through the scholarly literature and the consensus is overwhelmingly the opposite of your claim. So much so that I’ve decided not to link any studies (there are literally thousands). Science isn’t perfect and statistics alone guarantee many ambiguous results, some of which you seem to have found.

Even though you’re right, the attitude is unhelpful. We should try to fix things; besides I’m not sure if you guys noticed but an entire generation of 10 year olds is glued to their social media. It’s sad AF. Here are some of the results:

Even more bizarre, and brace yourselves for this stat, the average boomer is LESS likely to say that “feminism is bad“ than the average gen z’er. No joke. Almost certainly a result of social media overconsumption. Every parent I know with the exception of one allows their kids unrestricted access to the internet 24/7. Afterwards they collect mental illnesses like Pokémon. “Oppositional defiance disorder” is the funniest one, look it up.

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Then we should rename this community to “dumb things that are obviously wrong.” Or maybe “anti science.”

if you don’t have any interesting opinions — evaluative judgements formed on the basis of evidence disregarded by the majority — that doesn’t mean you should latch onto nihilistic gobbledygook. That’s just… pointless.

And by the way, there are tons of scientific takes that enjoy opinion status. For instance, “psychopathy is far more common than 5% and the condition should be treated very aggressively.” That’s an opinion. It’s an evaluative response to inconclusive or incomplete evidence.

Opinions are evaluative judgements below the epistemic threshold for facticity. Denying science isn’t “an opinion.” Worse, it’s very boring.

You’re not edgy when you claim that germs don’t cause disease. You’re just wrong. I mean if that’s what you consider an “unpopular opinion” you might as well fill this community with the autogenerated negation of all the sentences in Wikipedia. Zzzzz. Boring.

Two problems with that. First, you’re saying something like “the world is flat.” That’s not an opinion; it’s just wrong. Worse still, your “opinion” is literally the most popular take on drug addiction, informing all the moronic laws that cause so much unabated misery.

Seriously folks, an unpopular opinion is something like: “eating meat will be regarded in 100 years the same way as slavery.” That’s unpopular (and probably true). It’s also nonfactual, and therefore just an opinion.

Well this is worrisome.