Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread gene heskett
On 3/16/24 16:20, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:30:46 -0700 Steve Sobol wrote: I already get a ton of legitimate mail from the debian-user mailing list. Don't need the off-topic crap. Concur. Admins, could you please get rid of the people who are contributing to the noise?

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:30:46 -0700 Steve Sobol wrote: > I already get a ton of legitimate mail from the debian-user mailing > list. Don't need the off-topic crap. Concur. > > Admins, could you please get rid of the people who are contributing > to the noise? Or at least make them aware of

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2024-03-15 22:58, Marco Moock wrote: Am 15.03.2024 um 18:16:50 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton: Fascinating reading here: . What the hell? I already get a ton of legitimate

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > as I believe Paul Valéry once noted, even the past isn't what it used > to be. That's why i want everything back exactly the way as it never was. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Curt
On 2024-03-16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Meanwhile the future is past and the pundits of the 70s are dead and > ridiculed. Yes, as I believe Paul Valéry once noted, even the past isn't what it used to be. > Predictions are difficult - especially when it's about the future. > > > Have a nice

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, when i was a young Babyboomer in the late 1970s we were accused of destroying society by a "twin culture of sexual license and cannabis". The big Decline of the West was a sure thing, accelerated by excessive tv consumption. Other future threats were drying up oil wells, a comming ice age,

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 06:58:55AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 15.03.2024 um 18:16:50 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > > > Fascinating reading here: > > . > > It completely explains

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > So the problem with GenZ seems to be how they are growing up > > and what they are spending their time on; and not their job > > (they are teens!) > > They need other things to do that appeal to them more than >

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-15 Thread Marco Moock
Am 15.03.2024 um 18:16:50 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > Fascinating reading here: > . > It completely explains why GenZ are having so many problems with > adulthood. Smartphones and

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-15 Thread Emanuel Berg
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > So the problem with GenZ seems to be how they are growing up > and what they are spending their time on; and not their job > (they are teens!) They need other things to do that appeal to them more than smartphone idling. If such things existed, they would go for them, I'm

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 7:09 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Fascinating reading here: > > . > > It completely explains why GenZ are having so many problems >

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-15 Thread Emanuel Berg
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Fascinating reading here: > . > It completely explains why GenZ are having so many problems > with adulthood. Smartphones and Social Media are > the

OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Fascinating reading here: . It completely explains why GenZ are having so many problems with adulthood. Smartphones and Social Media are the culprits. >From the article: