• Doombot1@lemmy.one
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    2 months ago

    Near-infinite access to pretty much any information you can possibly dream of, content, questions, etc, on a little device in your pocket

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      The problem with that is it has led to ignorant people believing they’re smart — all because they can find any random site that backs up any nonsense they assert. Critical thinking and credible research are endangered concepts now.

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        2 months ago

        Oh, of course. There are negatives to everything for sure. But I think as a whole it’s made life better in a lot of different ways.

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          I miss tge bar room arguments over who did what. Like tge guy who ran out of a bar and stole a plane and flew it back to tge bar to prove he stole a plane before. Awesome. Now you just hoogle everything