Personal observation:
The internet is ruining my life.
@TheAbbotTrithemius already ruined mine
@TheAbbotTrithemius ruining? Vernacular: already dun been ruined
this place is the one respite from the madness, usually 🤔
It is, but even then, hate to say it, but it can turn into a bad time-suck. Dopamine rages here too..
So we have to keep our frontal cortex healthy and keep making healthy executive decisions for ourselves...
oh, yes. balance. i take refuge in my garden, and books etc.
as well as real life conversations.
We need to channel our inner @Minholkin 😉
oh lol that's kind 💛 but most folks would then find things boring 😄
And sometimes not.
true. there are periods😬
@TheAbbotTrithemius Before my bookclub last night I was conversing with one of the members, and we had a long discussion about the pernicious effects of the internet, specifically social media.
It's a weird thing. I think it needs to be backed up with IRL activities or honestly, I think it ruins our sense of selves, our sense of others, or sense of reality...
i see VR making this effect much worse.
@TheAbbotTrithemius Yep. And it's reflected in something as stupid as pedestrians with their noses in their phones so that they don't see the car barreling towards them. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU'RE DOING!
@TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian speaking of which, we need to walk the dogs today. It's going to rain all day tomorrow.
I thought dogs need be waked every day. Isn't that how dogs work?
Has the Dog Operators Manual been revised or something??
Woof woof ??
@TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian it depends on the dog, and on whether you have a decent size fenced backyard, which we do. The main reason that was that the chief dog walker was walking with a cane for a lot of the winter.
I love you all, and I can't quit you guys though.
You magnificent bastards....