32 New Trends That Are Doing A Lot Of Damage But Many People Don’t Realize It
We’re social beings, so it only makes sense that many of us want to be respected, accepted, and adored. We crave being part of the group, so we copy certain behaviors to fit in and appear hip and cool. However, blindly following trends can do a lot of harm, especially when they change so quickly these days.
Inspired by u/Tater-Tot-Casserole, the r/AskReddit online community opened up about what they personally think are the most damaging new trends that we see these days. They hoped to raise some awareness among other internet users and urge them to be more careful. Scroll down to read their opinions, and remember to upvote the ones you agree with, Pandas.
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Extremely elderly politicians.
Can we get an exception asterisk next to Bernie's name? That man could be 500 years old and I'd still vote for him if given the chance.
I am not from USA. I am from Germany and I´d vote for Sanders - He would make so many things better for your country.
Load More Replies...Old, conservative, religious men that make decisions about young women's bodies as in abortion should be banned.
Young, liberal, atheist men have no business making those decisions either.
Load More Replies...Photo: Cape Canaveral, briefing in 1962. President John F Kennedy was 45 when he was assassinated, Lyndon B Johnson was 54 when he succeeded him.
French point of view here: we have very young politicians since Macron election. Well... no many differences, different age but same troubles.
I keep saying this! How can we entrust our future to men who have the majority of their lives behind them. They don't care about the future because they won't be around long to see the repercussions of their choices. Also they are stuck in the past ways of doing things (that caused us to be in the mess we're in now) and don't know how to adapt to new ideas.
Print this and then drag it out when you are 30 years older.
Load More Replies...But I must mention that in the Netherlands the 2de kamer (kind of Senate) is much more diverse than the picture above: many more women and young people. And even the UK parliament is more diverse. I associate this with the USA (call me wrong :) but also it looks like a picture from the sixties .
Accordig to @ General Anaesthesia's comment: Photo: Cape Canaveral, briefing in 1962. President John F Kennedy was 45 when he was assassinated, Lyndon B Johnson was 54 when he succeeded him.
Load More Replies...If they are so old that they'll be dead soon after they serve, guaranteed to never live in the consequences of their bad actions, they should not be allowed to serve. All they're doing is 1) being controlled as a puppet to younger, less known politicians because these seniors are an old, familiar face and/or 2) collecting as much bribe money as possible to set up their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren for life. I'm look at you, Joe Biden and his handlers.
But maybe this has something to do with the fact that senators, just like judges in the USA, are appointed for life. In that case it is better to have the old :) they die sooner.
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Posting children and all their personal, emotional and vulnerable moments. People are LITERALLY pimping children for karma and followers. Crying children. Dying children. Naughty children. Confused children. Humiliated children. .
I've just never understood parents who post pictures of their children when they're upset or doing something that they might later find embarrassing. It was bad enough for me looking at some of my old photos with family, I'd be mortified if they'd have been posted online. The fairest thing to do is to only share photos privately with family and to let kids share photos themselves when they're old enough to have a social media account.
What gets me is how selfish this is- it’s always the parents that *want* to post that stuff to show off their lives without thinking about children’s futures or rights. 😠
Load More Replies...YouTube is full of mommy vloggers who record and post every moment of their kids' lives. Including where they live and the places they go. Medical information and procedures too. And there are people who watch those videos every day and think they are part of the family. That's a recipe for disaster if I ever saw one!
Putting your kids lives on the internet is not only dangerous thing to do now in the present, but in the future when they're trying to get into college or applying for jobs. Do you really want prospective employers seeing photos and videos of you as child when your upset, crying, getting punished or your birthdays and holidays? This is also why I constantly tell people of all ages, be careful what you post today because that may come back and bite you in the a*s in the future.
The naked baby that was featured on the front cover of the Nirvana album, grew up to sue for emotional damage. And won.
I think de-stigmatizing mental health is great. I think all the self diagnoses and hyper acceptance where it's used as justification for s****y, lazy, or entitled behavior is not. I'm sorry to people who are truly struggling, but you still need to take responsibility for your mental health and put effort into trying to grow and heal.
It's especially annoying that so many people that actually don't have mental issues make videos to get likes and pity about being "neurodivergent", even though they just like to complain. Neurodivergent is an umbrella term and about as precise as saying "I have an allergy". What kind, against almonds, pollen or shellfish? Same goes with mental illnesses, it's a long way between ADHD and PTSD, both of which go under this umbrella. I've come to the point that I don't believe it anymore when someone says neurodivergent and can't elaborate on what they actually have.
Maybe in a couple of years, there will be a name for the urge that makes people build their persona around diagnosis.
Load More Replies...i hate when people make their whole personality about some mental illness they claim to have because they think its quirky or cute its what stigmatises mental illness for people who really suffer
OP's note about 'take responsibiliy for your mental health' is quite offensive against people with depression. People having it couldn't even imagine there could be anything that helps. I hate when self-taught psychiatrists blame the mentally ill people for their illness. Massive downvote from me 👎
I don't quite think that's what the OP meant. My interpretation was that they meant people who don't really have these challenges but self-diagnose as a way to justify behavior, not people who really have these challenges and CAN'T do anything about whatever those challenges bring. I'm autistic & understand that there are certain things I will never be able to control like my sensory issues or getting obsessed with things, but I would also never act like a jerk & be like "suck it, I'm autistic," as some people do. It's not for me to gatekeep anything, and if you are/feel like you might be on the spectrum "hi" 👋, but I don't think the OP was trying to insult people who are truly struggling.
Load More Replies...Also don't love that some terms are just now tossed about w***y-nilly. Narcissist and trauma, in particular, are so overused (and in part weaponized) as to become meaningless in a few more years.
Someone told me that most therapists never actually meet a diagnosable narcissist. They're fairly rare and almost never get help. There are people with narcissistic traits who are not actual narcissists.
Load More Replies...All of the people self diagnosing themselves without even doing research on what it would take for a diagnosis or straight up faking mental illnesses on the internet has made it extremely difficult to get an actual diagnosis. I'm very close to the end of the process with getting diagnosed with autism, I didn't even start this process until I had a thorough discussion with both my therapist and psychiatrist about it. Only when both agreed that there's a good chance I had it did we go looking for where to get diagnosed.
We see a LOT of this in our students; they justify basically shutting down and refusing to do anything based on “depression” or “anxiety.” Some people truly suffer from these afflictions (my son is one of them but he never used it as an excuse for not doing his schoolwork) so stop casually claiming a mental health issue just to escape accountability. Stress is a real thing that we all experience and have to learn to manage and cope with; we cannot nor should we try to avoid it entirely because then we miss out on great experiences.
Very often the mental illness a person is suffering from makes it impossible to take responsibility for one's illness and to do something about it.
Very true. Certain illnesses do their level best to prevent a person from seeking treatment. Depression comes to mind first, but there definitely are others. Depending on the country in which you live, you can also add the hurdles of wait times and availability for mental healthcare, and cost.
Load More Replies...Getting an autism diagnosis as a high masking adult female cost me thousands of dollars to have an "official" diagnosis. It didn't change anything about how I felt or acted in the world and honestly if I could go back, I wouldn't have done it. I knew I was on the spectrum.
Yes, I have a friend who we are all pretty certain is neurodivergent in some way. She identifies this way herself too (and to be fair she/we only started to realise this through social media content). She is on the waiting list to be assessed for what type of ND she has/is. The waiting list for an assessment currently stands at six years. I'm not sure if having the diagnosis will be helpful or not for her, that's for her to say, but it won't change the fact that she's been ND for the last 40 years and will still be ND after the official diagnosis.
Load More Replies...One of my biggest hatreds of the internet and the media is the need to attach 'mental health' to everything. It waters down the true meaning and for those suffering it has made it impossible to seek professional help because EVERYONE is now in need of professional help. It's bad enough that the political parties (Tories cut back, but so did Labour) have made massive cuts and the resources are small but when those are then those are having to be spread even more thinly to issues which could easily be resolved in other ways at the expense of my serious problems I really think we've created a monster.
Aslo: forgive them, the brain isn't fully developed before they're 25 years old.
The more popular the trend, the greater the impulse to follow suit. You don’t want to stand out from your friends, family, and coworkers, do you now?! Many of us feel the pressure to fit in, even if we’re aware that we’re dealing with a new trend.
Maybe you feel the hype on the internet and feel the itch to watch a new TV show or play a specific video game. Or you feel like you have to make a certain type of content because the format is popular right now.
Perhaps all of your coworkers have been sporting a specific hairstyle or a particular type of jacket that’s all the rage in town, and now, you feel like you should follow suit. Or maybe there’s a fresh diet that everyone’s been proclaiming is a godsend (and is totally better than the last half-a-dozen trendy diets they tried in the last year alone). Trends are inescapable. But it comes down to us to decide how to react to them.
Pranking unsuspecting people for clout.
I'm from the generation that had Candid Camera. I hated it. I still cringe thinking about those poor people being pranked.
I remember watching "Just for Laughs: Gags", a Canadian hidden camera prank show that was mostly filmed in Montreal that aired on the CBC. Sure, there were some pranks that were at times over the top. But most of their pranks can be rather innocuous but still funny without crossing any lines whatsoever.
Load More Replies...If it's truly harmless I don't mind, but some (most in my opinion) pranks are just plain awful!
My cousin did it to me to entertain herself and i had to re explain tyne day. I am truly scared of the thing she was teasing me with?!
It is actually a very old word, around since the 18-hundreds, I discoverend recently. It is slang for "getting attention/fame" and "great influence".
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IPads for toddlers. Let’s destroy our kid’s dopamine receptors before they can even talk properly. Sounds great.
The internet is also not particularly concerned with raising a child, or doing it right. Kids raised by phones tend to be extremely entitled because algorithms specifically try to put all of us into the bubble that agrees the most with us, so we never hear anyone saying we are wrong.
Uhh... This has become a worldwide issue. Can't emphasize the effects enough.
Also, if used in public spaces give your child headphones. Sick of hearing Baby Shark etc on the train. 😡
My kids thought I was the worst for not allowing them any pads or phones until they could get a job & buy their own (they had little flip phones for safety but couldn't get the internet on them). I refused to put their lives on my social media too & wouldn't let other family members do it either. The computer was in the living room. I let them have an Xbox & video games though but it's also in the living room. In their teen years I noticed that they were a lot more stable and had fewer emotional problems than their friends who are on social media 24/7. Now that they're in their 20's they're starting to understand why I raised them the way I did. They're also happy that their entire childhood isn't displayed online.
I came across a scientific study which found that digital screens trigger the same areas of the brain as addictive d***s. This means that kids and adults are having the same addiction response to tablet computers. The scientists recommended making sure that children do not fall asleep/ go to bed while using table computers, as this somehow makes it even worse.
No I'm sorry it did not Steve !50's I was born in 1954
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Subscription models for every service. gone are the days of curated collections, now you own nothing.
Just recently saw a video about some game that was made non-fuctional by the developers just because they decided its support had ended. Refunds? Ha ha, are you crazy?
There was a pretty recent kerfuffle because Crunchyroll folded or is folding and people's purchased libraries of anime (which, obvs, could have hundreds of titles over the years) won't be supported anymore. This is (only part of) how I justify buying physical media. I'm lucky to have the space for it.
Load More Replies...New cars now come with subscription services, after a year of liking a special feature you will now have to subscribe to it to keep it.
That's when I'd return it to the dealer and (kindly 😉) ask them to remove it. Then pay ME for the option I bought that can no longer be used as a consequence of an action of the manufacturer.
Load More Replies...Damn you, Creative Suite! Lost a computer that had the purchased version on it then couldn't find the disc to install it on the new one... now I have to do this stupid subscription! I'd take the old "paid for" version over the $600 a year subscription any day!
adobe really f'd it up with that c**p. i have photoshop cs5 that i torrented ages ago and it does all that i need it to!
Load More Replies...Nope. I collect DVDs and vinyl; both are heavily curated. I know a lot of people who collect and prefer to have hard copies of their media. I do, however, have a Kindle. I do not have room for books, vinyl, and DVDs. Alas. My Kindle has hundreds of books on it and takes up no room at all.
I think subscription for services like Netflix is OK but to subscribe for the seat heating of your Bimmer that's already built in is a nonsense.
I could be wrong but I think that was a trial, and so badly received they canceled it.
Load More Replies...I rarely watch a movie twice, there has to be at least a decade in between. Every movie I ever bought was a waste of money.
i'm the opposite, i mostly watch things that i've seen multiple times before, because with adhd my brain won't let me do anything else if it's a new piece of media.
Load More Replies...There is a Paw Patrol game, where you can visit different „worlds“ with different dogs. The game itself is free, but to be able to use all dogs and worlds, you either have to pay ~10€ per month or ~10€ per dog/ world. If you want to have all, you would have to pay roughly 120€ total. The game is good, I like it, but come on! It isn‘t 120€ good! With that kind of money I can get more complex games. And people think Sims AddOns are a ripp off. HA!
I have a selection of classic A, B, and D grade movies that I adore. If I was to rely purely on streaming services, I would never get to see them. Also, remember how movies played on free-to-air TV will sometimes be edited to fit into the 90minute timeslot? Streaming services do that as well. I once watched Jupiter Ascending on Prime, Stan, free-to-air, and they were all trimmed in different places. I'll watch my DVD thanks.
If you’re going to follow every single trend, you’re going to end up utterly exhausted. Whether we’re talking about fashion, content, or entertainment, trends are flashing by us quicker than ever. We live in a heavily interconnected world. 5.44 billion people around the world use the internet, of which 5.07 billion are social media users, according to Statista. With so many users and different ideas, opinions, and online activity, which get seen and iterated on by others, trends pop up and get replaced incredibly quickly.
So, unless you aim to be at the cutting edge of trends all the time (e.g., you’re a famous content creator or reviewer and your livelihood depends on this), it’s better to aim for long(er)-lasting trends or to ignore most of the ‘noise’ and do what feels right to you.
Normalizing plastic surgery, fillers and botox for teens.
For anyone, not just for teens. The fact that this post specifies teens just shows how much it's become normalised fo adults.
I haven't nor will have any of these procedures, but I don't knock any adult who get them either. I don't see it as different to other forms of body modifications. Like my tatts, each to their own.
Load More Replies...And can we stop with the ‘duck lips’ so beloved by reality tv people and other wannabe’s
Botox has really helped my TMJ. There are medical reasons to use neurotoxins.
In a society that is making it unacceptable for women (mostly) to look more than half their age and "anti aging" beauty products aimed at women in their twenties and thirties, it doesn't surprise me that this is normalized.
There are Botox commercials where they show young adults who think they need it because they have a couple of lines on their face. You can hardly even tell they had it done. And then they talk about how they're so much happier now that their face is paralyzed. They never needed it in the first place! What made them think they did?? That's just sad. Even more so because it's on TV where kids and teens can see it! They're going to grow up thinking that wrinkles are something to be feared. :(
In the end: everything ends in death. You can't take your body changes with you to the next life. What if you did something different with the money for all these alterations to your body? You could have died as a satisfied person :).
What if you spend your money on what satisfies you and I spend mine on things that make *me* happy and neither of us gives a sh1t what the other likes?
Load More Replies...I don't understand why anyone would want botox as a teen. I get the notion of "prevention" and all, but I started at 36 and the wrinkles I did have are now (at 38) virtually nonexistent. The longer you use the stuff the more likely you may grow resistant or experience a bad injection. Why do it before there's any difference to really be made? Risk vs benefit are important considerations and, unfortunately, teenagers (yes, I've been there) don't always think about risks. At 18 I stood right on the edge of a cliff in Hawaii and looked down... at 25, I stood at least 10 ft back thinking things like " what if there is a strong wind?" Just saying.
While teaching at a high school recently I hear 16 year old girls discussing getting Botox.
Instagram tourism. We’re trashing beautiful places because we gotta have THAT photo!
'Tourists' were carving their names into ancient monuments before they were even ancient. Lots of graffiti on Greek, Egyptian and Roman ruins dates from the times when they were being built and used in daily life.
Load More Replies...Include people that ignore signs, railings, and put themselves in dangerous situations for that better photo. Several have died doing this.
I'm afraid that wherever I go, I take lots of pictures! Because you can be there only a short time and you want to relive those moments you loved many times after. However, I respect the place and people that are there at that moment. So, I think you talk about tourists that shove everything and everyone out of their way to get their photo.
The "Alpha male" and red pill ideology popular in groups of men and teenagers.
yeah didn't the creator of the term actually regret making it?
Load More Replies...Tatertots who listen to Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan. Enabling the entire spectrum of toxic male behavior. Tate is obviously evil, but Rogan doesn't get called out enough for enabling stupidity and constantly putting the burden of education on others and requiring that every concept be spoon fed to him. That and distorting truth by treating everything like one side vs the other side, like Climate change. He puts one scientist and one moron on his show and pretends like it's a 50/50 issue instead of a 99.9/0.1 issue, thus enabling every entitled male a chance to ignore any facts they don't like
women actually run everything and men are the ones being oppressed, it's a reddit page (that i would not recommend reading through)
Load More Replies..."Alpha Males" are a huge joke xD especially because they think it means treating women like s**t
last time redpiller explained me his ideology, I have already forgot what was is about, such bollocks their idea is.
Anyone who has to tell people they are an "Alpha Male" most likely isn't and Alpha male.
It just means they are full of bugs and frequently crash to desktop
Load More Replies...Alpha male c**p yes is garbage. The red pill movement just means you are waking up to how screwed up the world actually is. Fake news, rampant medical malpractice, owned politicians, etc...
Of course, before you commit to any trend, make sure to do your research. Take your time, and don’t rush into anything! Especially if you plan on testing out some hyped-up diet or workout. A diet that might work for one person might have adverse effects for someone else with different genes and lifestyle. Similarly, a random workout isn’t going to give you a six-pack in ten days, no matter what you’re promised. Remember your own workout goals and go from there. Be very careful where your health is concerned.
Don’t drastically change your life just because you’re scared you won’t be as cool as your friends. If you want to be trendy, be trendy, but do that from a position of confidence, not fear. And, let’s be honest, you should consider the people in your social circle who follow these trends: do they commit to one of them or do they bounce to whatever’s the most popular?
Using ‘therapy speak’ to justify toxic behavior. It’s making it difficult for people with actual issues being taken seriously when someone who has likely never seen a therapist uses medical terminology to explain why they’re allowed to be a******s in public.
The problem with any kind of 'speak' is that when it's used so frequently and in ways it's not meant to be used that it loses its meaning and people will tune out.
What bothers me is when a person commits a crime, they're guilty as f**k but in sentencing them consideration is given to their mental problems and they end up with a light to no sentence in a lot of cases.
Load More Replies...That asshöle celebrity (forgot his name) who told his girlfriend this like 'you disrespect my personal boundaries by talking to other guys'
Used to be, a diagnosis was a tool - now we have an idea for fixing the issue or working around it. Nowadays a diagnosis is just an excuse for letting your freak flag fly. "Yes, I was mooning the senior citizens home. But it's OK, I have ______"
I work with several people who describe themselves as having "first player/main character syndrome"... No honey, you're just a narcissist who only thinks of yourself and you're toxic af.
Funnily enough, calling someone a narcissist also falls under this.
Load More Replies...Sadly, too many inadequate therapists teach people harmful nonsense. and too many junk articles.
House rentals (corporations, AirBnB) taken too far — when a community ends up with scant actual residents….
As they should! It's bad enough that the majority of single family homes in the U.S. are bought, then owned, and finally sold at a HUGE markup by BUSINESSES to actual human beings. Inflation didn't cause home prices to sky rocket and either did "supply and demand"; business greed along with both the federal and state governments allowing businesses to purchase single family homes caused house prices to sky rocket.
Load More Replies...Not just AirBnB but REITs and other property companies buying EVERY house and apartment that comes on the market, then "adjusting rent for inflation" every single year. People don't get pay raises for inflation but these a******s drive prices relentlessly up at the expense of entire generations.
People that flip houses are the cause of skyrocketing real estate prices too.
El bario gotico in Barcelona was a vivid popular quarter. But now it's mostly airbnb. That's sad.
It is terrible, in Spain most turistic cities are becoming entertaintment parks where there is only airbnb and similars. For this reason the cost of renting is getting off the charts for the locals. Many local turistic business do not get enough people to work and complain while at the same time offer very low salaries. Come on, so you want to exploit someone with a poor salary and at the same time expect them to live close enough of your business, which is in the center of the town, where is imposible to get a rent with that salary. And you complain saying no one wants to work. Try offering a decent salary.
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Plastic lawns: bio diversity loss, micro plastic fibres, turning reality into Minecraft.
We have fake grass, but that’s because we live in the desert. In the front, everything is rocks and desert vegetation, our “side yard” is fake grass so our son could play. We had real grass in both places when we bought the house with irrigation set up, but we took that all out. I’m thinking that’s better to not waste water. I’m also thinking I don’t understand what exactly micro fibers are. 🤔
Not micro fibres, but micro-plastics. Basically microscopic bits that wear off plastic products and become a part of the general environmental 'dust'.
Load More Replies...Instead of looking into native plants that can serve a similar purpose, people choose plastic plastic plastic. Nasty shreds of that toxic c**p will be found in hundreds of years.
Yes...but...soccer training fields? Hope somebody will come up with an alternative. So far, no grass is resistant enough for 4-5 hours of people with soccer shoes (spikes) running on it...every day (yes, reality in the city I live).
Never heard of « soccer » (?) but football training fields made of real grass are the norm in temperate climates and are easily resistant enough, except in the goal area where it’s not unusual to have rough patches.
Load More Replies...I think we have a law against that. Your garden needs to be x% greenery, so you cannot even have a stone garden or similar
Previously, Bored Panda got in touch with historian Dr. Jane Nicholas from St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, who shared her thoughts on social media and the desire to look beautiful. According to her, seeking ‘perfection’ has long been sold as something attainable; it’s nothing new. There’s a semi-hidden suggestion that we can look ‘perfect’ if we try harder or spend more money.
“Many cosmetics, for example, promise the ability to achieve a certain look with their use. Social media is driven by different, more individual forces than traditional media, but it is caught up in many of the same patterns, specifically selling goods,” she told us during an earlier interview.
Helicopter parenting. Kids grow up unable to problem solve, self-soothe, make decisions, meet new people, communicate with bosses or professors, just basic stuff. I know parents who won't let their kids learn to drive because they think 16 is too young. But at 18 they're going to punt these kids off to college who have been told their whole lives that every stranger wants to kidnap, rape, or murder them, that walking after dark is life-threatening, and now they're going to room with a stranger, on a campus full of strangers, and walk to and from class, sometimes after dark. There's a reason so many young adults have anxiety disorders. I know people in their 20s who have panic attacks when faced with calling to make a doctor appointment.
One of my friends has a mom like this. She’s eighteen, but her mom won’t let her drive, barely let her hang out with friends without supervision, still picks out her clothing, still makes her cut and style her hair a certain way. Hell, her mom even tries to shave her still (she’s trans). I’m so worried for her when she leaves that hellhole because she has almost no life skills.
I'm a Scouter. I once had a helicopter parent so bad, I felt I needed to play "Ride of the Valkyries" whenever I saw her approaching.
Human brains are fully developed only between the ages from 23 to 30 (men take longer than women). In my mothers days (Netherlands) you were becoming an adult at the age of 28 and she needed permission from her parents to marry my father at the age of 27,5. And still, in the Netherlands, parents are responsible for the costs of their childrens' education until the age of 27. Every human being developes different skills at different speeds. You have to let your children do their thing, while still being there when it goes wrong, just as you let your child learn how to bike, but still check where it bikes to. It is a difficult balance to find.
I think you have an interesting point but when it comes to legal age in the Netherlands it is a bit different. From 1901-1988 the age of becoming an adult was 21. Today 18, but your parents are financially responsible to support you until 21. Until 1970 men and woman alike needed to have permission from their parents to get married if they were under 30 years old.
Load More Replies...Or parents who don't teach their children how to cope. I have so many students (all in the same class period) who don't know how to manage their emotions. We'll be playing word games on the computer, they're losing, and they go crazy screaming, pounding on their desks, hitting their computers. It's crazy.
Something to call out here is the "why" of it all. Things happen for a reason and if people constantly dismiss the preceding events then no one truly understands how to change the result moving forward. Some parents begin to do the helicopter parent treatment as a compensation for the loneliness and disregard their parents showed them. In their effort to not subject their children to similar trauma often times there is over-correction. Realizing the unintended effects doesn't really occur until after the most formative years. So for instance, one might have a first child that can barely function after receiving even the most gentle feedback while a second or third child is more resourceful and resilient. I would like to think very few people get it right the first time. IMO new parents are either handing down the same trauma from their parents or overcompensating.
Huh. I always associate helicopter parenting with doom spamming: constantly being told (via social media/tv/...) of one danger after another from school shootings to violent robbers, kidnappers and r@pists breeds insecurity and over protectiveness. Not to mention CPS coming after parents for neglect when they let their kids out of their sight for more than 30 seconds. Unless it's actually HOT outside it's absolutely normal in Germany to leave a *sleeping* 1YO in his car seat (car locked) to buy a loaf of bread or pay at the gas station. Seems to be close to criminal neglect, from what some US commenters had to say on the subject.
Load More Replies...I don't think this is a new trend though. There's always been helicopter moms as far as I'm aware. And it's never been healthy.
As a parent of a special needs child, close monitoring is essential for their very survival. And judging by the increased numbers of children with learning disabilities and things like ADHD, close supervision is also needed for them to thrive. Many of the kids I grew up with who had undiagnosed learning disorders did not live a long life.
OP never mentioned children with special needs being treated this way. One could assume that treating children without special needs as if they had special needs messes them up and creates issues within them that most likely would have never appeared and, if they would have appeared later on in life, they wouldn't be as astronomical as they are. Helicopter parents are taking normal, run-of-the-mill children and emotionally crippling them for years and years to come. This needs to be called what it is: child abuse. Parents should prepare their children for life, not make life more difficult when it comes for their children as adults.
Load More Replies...17 in the UK and you have to pass both a written and practical test before you're allowed out without a qualified driver
In the States, in most places you have to be at least 16 to get a learner's. You also have to pass a written and practical before you get your license. If you pass you can get a license at 16. Some high schools have driver's ed during a PE time slot.
Load More Replies...Please explain the term " helicopter parenting ". I've never heard of it. However I do agree with the damage caused by over protective parenting.
One trend that's gaining momentum and potentially causing harm is "doomscrolling." This is to the habit of endlessly scrolling through negative news or social media feeds, often leading to feelings of anxiety, depression, and helplessness.
I have found myself doing it. So, when I get the urge, I just go to something that isn't important, and scroll through the ridiculous comments. Right now I'm all about the INANE bickering that surrounds Superman, James Gunn and Zack Snyder.
That's funny, I'm an old goat who most would think guilty of this but I'm the opposite. I consciously scroll past it. I don't give a 💩 what Rand Paul or Dave Ramsey has to say or their predictions. I will allow myself the guilty pleasure of looking every couple of days at trump squirming in his seat for a good laugh.
Load More Replies...The balance is very important. It may be healthier for an individual to not watch any news at all for a while. But in the bigger picture, I find it scary when people say (sometimes even boast) they don't watch/read any (world) news any more at all. Democratic societies need informed citizens. Quality journalism is needed. It puts things in context and also points out positive developments. But it costs money. That's why subscriptions and publicly funded radio/TV stations are vital imo.
If I consciously avoid the BP articles that are negative (This Karen did This, Things People Hate, Worst Places etc) it doesn't leave a lot of content left.
I know! It used to be so much better here not that long ago. Now the increasing negativity of AITA, malicious compliance, America-bashing, and endless blather about celebrities is making this site a less positive place than it used to be. :-(
Load More Replies...My mom (in her 70s) does the elder version of this, constantly watches CNN. It absolutely stresses her out and I can’t get her to stop. It was worse during the pandemic though.
I stopped watching the news 3 months into the pandemic. Never went back.
Load More Replies...I force myself not to check internet comments on any media posts about news. But that's tough. Bored Panda comments are usually helpful. That's a great community here.
Try to experience the joy of life. Be grateful for what you have. We only have limited time and energy, so don't waste it on such activities.
This isn't new. A bunch of journalists made up stories about how bananas had to be straight and trapeze artists must wear a hard hat just to see if people believed it. It seems a lot of people like getting angry in the morning
Water in plastic bottles.
See Nestle taking as much public water as possible, especially in drought stricken areas
The CEO of Nestle has stated that water is not a basic human right and if people want it they should have to pay for it.
Load More Replies...Single use plastic needs to be done away with. And people should stop buying into it.
Especially when people don't dispose of them and just leave or toss them on the ground.
Load More Replies...Where i live it's totally useless cause tap water is perfect but i guess some people must drink water in bottles only no ?
Big business against individual communities. There is a documentary about that.
seriously, buying a filter pitcher or installing a filtration system on a sink is so easy, and then you can get a dedicated water bottle and fill it at home before you go out. there's no reason not to.
Which is why you can get Brita pitchers and use tap water, so you can refill them multiple times. Buy a reusable water bottle and it's good for the environment and much cheaper to replace the filters then continuously spending money on cheap plastic bottles that are bad for your health.
According to the historian, the trends that we see these days may actually be continuations of previous trends or reactions to them. So, if you know your history, you might just see certain trends make comebacks under a slightly different name and in different packaging.
What new trends do you personally think are the most damaging, dear Pandas? On the flip side, do you think that there are any trends that have been genuinely good for society? What trends do you personally follow, whether consciously or unconsciously? If you have a moment, share your thoughts in the comments.
Posting everything on social media.
I used to post a lot on stories on Instagram, Whatsapp, at some point I started to think that no one actually cares what I post and it's pointless for me, so I stopped. I was checking who saw those posts, got annoyed when someone I didn't like watched my stories. Now I don't post on social media anymore and I'm happier.
Ahhh...I remember that little dopamine hit when someone interacted with something id posted on FB or insta. But it did more harm than good in the long run, I quit in the early days of the pandemic and it's been so much better for my mental health.
The reason I don't put my life out there on social media is *I* don't think my life is all that interesting so why the heck would I think anyone else would.
Kids rarely spending significant time outdoors. On a minor note they're more likely to become nearsighted. On a significant note, they're less likely to be emotionally stable for times of adversity as an adult.
I was lucky enough to not grow up with modern devices, and still become very, very nearsighted...
Our ophthalmologist STRONGLY advises for kids to look at things far away from them for a substantial time of the day with natural light. Like, things that are farther away than anything in your room.
Kids spend less time outside because if you let them the police turn up at your door with social services because you've been accused of "neglecting your children". Where were they playing? Outside the house on some green space whilst I cleaned/scrubbed floors and could see them through the window. Not even bloody joking.
This is so important, not only because it's a healthier lifestyle, but kids need to have time alone and with friends where they learn how to make good decisions or see the results of bad choices before they become really big issues when they reach teen years and beyond.
I live near an elementary school with playgrounds, basketball courts, soccer fields, etc. Almost never see it used outside of recess time. :( EDIT to add: meaning like on weekends, evenings, or summer break.
Actually short-sightedness does not develop as a result of always looking at things close to you.
Actually it does. The constant accommodation and lack of sunlight stimulate they eyeball in a child/adolescent to grow longer - the retina is further away from the focal point = nearsightedness
Load More Replies...I grew up playing outside until it got dark. We didn't have all the indoor distraction kids have now. But...I still ended up nearsighted....
why would that affect eyesight? it doesn't really make sense to me, but unlike a lot of people, i can admit when i don't know something.
Does this not depend on where you live? My child doesn't spend a whole lot of time 'Outside' because outside of our home there is a road filled with cars. They can play in the backyard if/when they want to, they just choose not to and as part of a generation that was forced to always be outside and not come back until dinner time I refuse to force that on them. Plus, the world seems to be an ever-increasingly dangerous place. I'd rather they stay inside and play
This is why we have a generation if young adults who are afraid to socialise, leave their homes, make a phone call, talk to a stranger, etc. Nobody's talking about kicking them out for the whole day, but the world outside is just as safe, if not safer, than it's ever been. You're not raising a child, you're raising a future adult who has to be able to function.
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Short videos ruining attention spans .
I absolutely HATE watching something and in the background is some subway surfers or Minecraft parcours going on. Stop dividing my attention, I don't give a f- about this s**t, I just want to hear the information said.
I hate it more when it is someone cooking, because I only click on those for the coocking snd then its some stupid story about whatever and the cocking is just the background with no explanstion on what they are doing.
Load More Replies...Videos of something that could have been written down in a couple of paragraphs are what I hate most. Many of them are just attention-seeking "look at me" attempts by people who can barely string two coherent words together. If you can't write it down well enough to get the message across then your message is not well enough defined or understood (by you).
The worst is when someone is watching shorts in YT, gets distracted by some other thing and leaves the fücking thing looping and looping until I want to snap their damn phone in half.
I really don’t get those videos. I usually try to pick one at LEAST 15-20 minutes long or else I’m like “ehhhh… too short for me.”
I do this esp bc now YouTube is trying to shift toward Shorts which is even worse. I try to stick to long videos.
Load More Replies...I especially hate such short videos which have no volume control and position control. Short videos? No. They are dumbed down videos. Also, autoplay. Thanks, but I can push a button. And I often wish I could choose to read the whole thing in an article instead. Though there are exceptions.
Deleted YouTube and I didn't even realise how often I would go to scroll until I removed access to scroll.
Good for you! I did the same with Instagram after seeing I had spent 9 hours (!) on it in one day. It was in a depressive episode and I'm pretty certain it made things worse even though my feed is mostly embroidery, art, and papercraft content. I restricted IG app useage to one hour a day only and actually haven't touched it in weeks. It's surprising how it can be a drain on time/attention like that!
Load More Replies...Short videos include "commercials" and nobody needs any more long commercials.
Parasocial relationships with celebrities.
Swifties, Beyhive, Barbz etc.
Nothing new here. "Teenyboppers" first appeared in the 1960s and 70s, with many young girls of that generation defining themselves by whether they liked Donny Osmond, David Cassidy or the Bay City Rollers (and others, of course, who came and went over time). Only one was allowed to be liked by any one girl at any one time.
True, but social media has made it more of a 24/7 thing because celebs can send things into the world continuously, where in the past you had to wait for a magazine or (tv) performance to get the latest news/your shot of juice.
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“Hauls” of just about anything. It’s incredibly wasteful and I imagine most influencers who do so can’t use all of that product before they’re pressured to make more content. Plus it encourages normal people to do the same, leading to lots of plastic waste and demand for cheap, unethical labor.
I realise that people buy from websites, like the one that uses a lot of bold orange and starts with the letter T, but all this cheap, marketed to buy more due to low prices is simply consumerism to the extreme. Buy somthing, buy something, buy anything! All. The. Time. And influencers? Seriously, don't get me started on what I think of influencers....
That organisation sells products manufactured in Uighur concentration camps.
Load More Replies...Does BP censor Temu?? Their product is data of customers. If you don't pay or pay incredibly little, you're not the customer but the product.
I'm not sure of what you mean by this. But have you ever bought something at Temu? I didn't but several people I know where influenced by the "shop like a billionaire" and were disgusted at what they got.
Load More Replies...ok but christmas hauls are fun because its jsut showing what you got for christmas..
Where did this " influencer " thing come from ? It's all BS and anyone who follows whatever they're " influencing " is delusional. I really dislike these people, and now even children are getting into the act ..... and parents are pushing them. Disgusting.
Celebrity tequila. More specifically the process of hydrolysis that use young agave plants instead of mature agave plants, creating a neutral alcohol that is then flavored with additives. This brings the price of agave up and customers are given an artificial tequila rather than traditionally made tequila that uses agave plants matured for 7 years.
In the UK 'artisanal' and speciality gins have been big and still growing for the last 20 years or so. They go on and on about them, but then when they drink them they _always_ mix them with a disgusting fizzy bitter-sweet concoction known as Tonic Water (OK, probably about 99.5% of the time - I actually like gin without it and I can't be the only one). What the hell is the point of adding all those flavours and aromatics to the gin if you're just going to overpower them before you drink the stuff?
Gilbey's Gin and Diet Tonic - as basic and good as it gets.
Load More Replies...Sammy Hagar has a Cabo Wabo brand of Tequila that he started producing decades ago, before it became the popular thing for celebrities to do that is actually really good. He sticks as close to the natural process as possible, but due to that it means he can only produce so many bottles a year. His bottles are mid price and he has a really good selection, so I definitely recommend his Tequila over a lot of other brands.
Agaves do less damage than other crops because they're native to the areas where they're grown. Responsible growers allow a certain proportion of their crop to go unharvested and flower to provide nectar for wildlife, especially migrating bats, which are utterly dependent on it. Harvesting young agaves gives nothing back, and depletes the soils.
Load More Replies...also bats need the agave far more than humans do, but that's a different problem
Sephora kids using skincare with acids and retinol.
If any age group has zero need for skincare products, it's precisely the kids. Why do they do this?
Yessss. My niece & my daughter are the same age, just 2 months apart, they're 10. Went shopping with them for niece's birthday, my niece didn't look at a single toy, only wanted to look at clothes & makeup. Clothes is normal for a girl of course, my daughter loves clothes, but she still loves toys! Mostly just Barbies, baby dolls, stuffies, fidget toys etc. And sure she likes playing with makeup for fun, but I never let her wear any to school other than maybe lipgloss. But my niece threw a fit that day because we weren't going to go to Sephora 🙄 which we ended up going but I certainly would not have taken her. She was wanting brands I had never even heard of! Drunk elephant being one. It's just completely crazy that any parent would let their young daughter use that type of skincare which is bad for them!! And they're just growing up too fast. Keep them little as long as possible!! 🥺
Airpods in constantly. I have a feeling in 20 years we're going to see a lot of hearing damage in people too young to have it.
Yes, battery time is different, plus available content. I mean, did you carry several cassettes with you every day? Plus, social acceptance for everybody being zoned out in their on world is higher...unfortunately.
Load More Replies...A lot of people wear these with no media playing at all, its just a fashion statement, "look at me, I have Airpods"
Especially those who blast it into their ears. If you can hear it when you take out the pods, it's too loud! That's one of the reasons your young neighbors are now blasting their music through the walls!
I know a girl who basically has he AirPods in 24/7. Weirdest part is, she doesn’t even use them to listen to music, it’s so that she can have Siri read her notifications. 🙄
There's already a huge rise in ear infections and in ear fungi. Gross. But, hey, look cool and trendy with semi-permanent, Q-tip-looking Airpods in at all hours. Look at you being all hip and whatnot. Go you.
Buccal fat removal.
See also: nose jobs which give everyone long, narrow, pointy noses that don't resemble human noses in any way.
Load More Replies...Adding fat to look like a skeleton? Or adding it to make you backside look abnormal? We're odd creatures...
Most plastic surgery should only be acceptable when medically necessary
Odd isn't it, a woman can't get a ligation but there's a cosmetic surgeon (possibly several in line) willing to carve her face up for questionable results.
Load More Replies...Do it only, because YOU want it. Not becazse of copying a celebrity or an influencer or "friends" tell you to do it, to belong to the hip group
NO. Don't do it. The only reason you could think you want it is exactly as you say, because you've seen celebrities or 'influencers' doing it and have somehow been persuaded that it's s good thing. It is not a good thing.
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Steroid use is becoming increasingly popular among teenage boys and young men. Social media is feeding them metric tons of fitfluencers that lie about their steroid use, feeding into the "why can't I be like them" pipeline that ends up with them hopping on. Hell, a few months into weightlifting myself and I was literally getting ads for steroids right on Reddit. Some years from now, I guarantee we'll start seeing these boys grow with serious health issues from using steroids at a very vulnerable age.
That's exactly what I thought 😂 Full circle for the second or third time since Arnie's heydays
Load More Replies...The whole cult of bodybuilding is what feeds this. As long as you idealise a certain body shape you will simply encourage people whose bodies are not built that way to find shortcuts to try and make it so. And there are much worse things than steroids that get used in certain sub-communities.
The anti-steroid hysteria in baseball created a TON of pro-steroid myths, like if you simply take these shots, you'll become a world-class athlete. What really happened was this: baseball players used to be afraid of "bulking up," out of fear that doing so would limit flexibility and twitch speed. It was called being "musclebound" Go look at pictures of old-time players, like Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial or Ted Williams or even Willie Mays. They're all thin, muscular but at most as bulky as the guy in the photo rather than someone like Arnold Schwartzenegger. Steroid use prevented injuries or allowed for faster rehab of injuries. It does not create strength magically.
I at least did for my horrible tasting medical steroids.
Load More Replies...And women have dealt with the same s**t for decades... real life is very different than Instagram
This has been a problem for a lot more years than you realize. Know of one guy who thought he needed to do steroids to look good. He is in his early 40s now and has been having issues for about 10 years and all of the conditions are linked back to his steroid use in his late teens/early 20s. Though I suspect he was doing steroids for much longer than he admits.
Trading most of our privacy in exchange for convenience.
This is hugely because we allowed the giant terms and conditions issue. Laws need to be passed so that people can read a summary of that c**p in less than 5 minutes and opt out clauses need to be added. If we can opt out of tracking cookies, we can opt the f**k out of corporations tracking our locations and literally reading our emails (check your gmail terms, they are reading and analyzing everything you send and receive)
Anybody else dealing with the inconvenience of not using WhatsApp? If so, how about a self-help group on Signal 😂😂
ChatGPT, I feel like I'm unable to produce a long coherent piece of text anymore and I spot this chatgpt kinda language on linkedin, resumes, product descriptions, everywhere.
What disturbed me most was seeing a science proposal written by ChatGPT. The only time I've ever seen a document that was 300% total garbage. The proposal had three independent and incompatible parts, each one of which was 100% garbage. It reminded me of a saying I had 30 years ago. "Artificial Intelligence is for people who have no natural intelligence".
Luckily it shows us that it cannot replace us entirely.
Load More Replies...Chat GPT is a very useful tool that can used for many different purposes and should be used by more people this post was not written by chat GPT
"it's my worst enema." I saw what you did there.
Load More Replies...I find that ChatGPT is like conversing with an inattentive 7th grade underachiever.
Recently, I saw a news article about a very upset author who lost their 'published' book because the entire thing was written by AI. My first thought was.... Is this author stupid? The USA courts had to do a ruling on AI generated work in 2023, which I think should be spread world-wide. Essentially. If it is AI generated, it can't be trademarked, because anyone could create the exact same thing with the same key words.
And most people don't and won't see the pitfalls and will (continue to) use it all the time, which will have wide-spread impact on content we have no control over. But I personally choose not to use it, so yay!
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The rise of sports gambling. A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money and in A few years it won’t be pretty when we know someone who has had their life destroyed by another addiction in their pocket.
Gambling in general. Every other ad everywhere is a gambling ad of some kind. 🤔
But if you have a problem be sure to call out 1-800 number. An addict is not going t ocall, they are just goingt okeep betting
Load More Replies...As long as Uncle Sam can get his cut of this lost money, he will gladly turn a blind eye.
That's very true and it's shameful. And it's fed by the endless ads on TV and online.
Load More Replies...My husband does online sports gambling all the time. The frequency always worries me in the back of my mind but at the same time a big bet for him would be $20 or $30. He’s usually betting less than $10. I think it makes the games he watches more interesting to him. He never bets anything we couldn’t afford to lose. He has friends who tease him, tell him to add zeros to those bets and he just laughs at them because betting something like $1000 is ridiculous to him. So pandas, am I minimizing and justifying my husband’s gambling? Or does this sound okay?
As long as he sticks to that he should be fine, and it doesn't sound like you are minimizing or justifying it. If the bets start getting larger there may be a problem.
Load More Replies...I love online sports gambling. It's a lot of fun. Just don't gamble anything you can't afford to lose.
Wanna bet on a game of skeeball? Air hockey? This place in the US that's essentially a giant arcade with alcohol is now allowing adults to bet on games!!
The disappearance of child friendly spaces online, *especially* for girls. Remember when toys like barbie and poly pocket had websites filled with games where you could dress up characters or do makeovers? Design a dream bedroom? They literally don't exist anymore. I've noticed a growing issue with young girls having no safe spaces online anymore where they can just be kids, leading to them trying to fit in by copying older teen/adult activities like *makeup tutorials* and get-ready-with-me videos, growing up far too quick. Literally saw a kid who was like 12 apply foundation while talking about s**t like some beauty influencer.
I think a big part in that was that the support for Flash applications were cancelled a few years ago
I was so sad when that happened! So many of the dress-up games I used to play, especially the really good ones that I LOVED, weren't usable anymore, and nobody seems to be trying to remake them.
Load More Replies...Related to this: Bored Panda censoring words like "d***s" (pharmaceuticals) so they stay identified as "child-friendly" to advertisers, but including graphic descriptions of sexual kink.
Raised by parents who banned Barbie as sexist...dress up characters, do makeovers, design a dream bedroom? Did that include colors vorher than all shades of pink? Dream bedroom without girlie cliches? Good pens, colored pencils etc can be an option. Books to get ideas from. Imo kids copy what they see. I will always love that one politician that doesn't even wear mascara, not even when on TV.
The reason you get downvoted for this type of stuff is because you support alienating women into a separate category "for their own good" instead of treating them like equals and helping to solve the actual problem of gender-based violence and discrimination. Believe it or not, your attitude is part of the problem.
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Veneers from unlicensed veneer techs.
I had to get veneers because I ground my teeth down to the nerves. Not all is cosmetic!
Load More Replies...Or the dental implants that many Brits are travelling to Turkey to get, hence why we now call them 'Turkey teeth.'
Oh man, I have seen patients with Turkey teeth and oof- they didn't take anything but aesthetics into account, it's not great
Load More Replies...There are going to be skeletons with perfectly white veneers and that's hilarious to me.
did not even know this was a thing. i guess i'm too poor, and also don't really care what my teeth look like (especially when no one in public is going to see the lower half of my face ever again).
Internet addiction, just look at the paste 3 decades and noticed some of those people spent over 20 years in front of a screen going on the internet most of the day.
Same. All the programs I use are internet based. If we don't have it, I can't work. It's not that I'm addicted to it, but it is a necessary evil.
Load More Replies...i don't have an addiction, but i am online all the time, because i'm disabled and can't do much else. plus my friends are all online. the internet isn't bad, people just have to have self control.
Some of this is a more viable substitute than interacting with the despicable humans in there on physical local. For some people it's not easy to discover people with the same interests in small-minded communities.
I saw the word ‘paste’ and thought kids today don’t eat paste on kindergarten anymore
Wegozy and Ozempic. Yes they help weight loss but you have to continue to use them for life or you just gain the weight back.
One of the effects of ozempic is to regulate insulin which is why it is prescribed for non-insulin dependent diabetics i.e. those with type 2 diabetes. It also slows down emptying of the stomach making you feel less hungry for longer, hence the impact on weight management which is why it is being mis-used as a miracle weight loss d**g, That is why there is a world-wide shortage of the d**g and why DM2 patients cannot find a reliable supply.
I used Ozempic, its not available anymore in my country thanks to al those A to Z celebreties, so i use Trulicity instead but im diabetic, (type 2). Maybe i should stop using it. And then my glucose levels are gonna be sky high again
The 0.5 dose ozempic is very difficult to get here (Australia). However the 1mg version is more available so I get that and take a half dose weekly (36 clicks instead of the full 72 clicks of the pen).
Load More Replies...I used Mounjaro for 6 months, dropped 75 lbs, A1C from 7.1 to 5.7 - stopped in September 2023 and have actually lost an additional 8 lbs on my own. If you dont revert back to old habits, the weight can stay off. However, my A1C went back up.. I know someone who was using Wegozy just for weight loss and she had the wrong mindset. She was still eating the c**p that made her feel "fat"! Skinny as a rail now, but her habits wont keep her that way.
I think this applies to a lot of weight loss trends. I’ve seen the same with gastric surgery. The people that keep it off are the people that establish healthy habits. Those who don’t, just stretch their stomach back out.
Load More Replies...I had to switch to mail order diabetes meds because my local pharmacy couldn't keep my Trulicity in stock. My Dr refuses to prescribe to anyone who's not diabetic.
My brother has growth hormone deficiency and he needs injections for it but because the same syringe thingies are used for stupid ozempic it makes it super expensive and there are shortages of the materials. The popularity of ozempic has taken resources away from kids with pituitary dwarfism and people with brain tumors who use the hormone injections.
I have opinions on people who use these d***s for weight loss, preventing people who need them to regulate their blood sugar from being able to fill their prescriptions because of lack of supply.
I'm t2 diabetic. I'm going to be on something for the rest of my life. Might as well use something that will help me lose the weight and need less insulin. Even dieting and walking for an hour a night didn't do much. Ozempic helps, and has me down to just 2 meds instead of 4 with a great a1c
Load More Replies...One of the biggest issues today I see is the "do your own research" movement. You can validate any opinion or belief with a Google search if you don't know how research actually is supposed to work, and sadly most people don't know how research is supposed to work. Credible sources, citations, tracebacks, alternate-theory research, all things that most people don't even know they need to look for, let alone how to do them correctly. It's led to an awful lot of horrible bigotry being "justified" to those who solely seek justification for their bigotry and nothing else.
Good point! For many out there, research = reading. As you point out, research requires way more than just reading. It involves inquiring, studying, analysing, interpreting and scrutinizing data in accordance to a methodology.
Load More Replies...Not new, but I see a lot of casual, recreational hard d**g use. All fine and good (I guess) while things are good and you're partying. But when life turns black, for any reason, it becomes that much easier for problems to arise
One of the biggest issues today I see is the "do your own research" movement. You can validate any opinion or belief with a Google search if you don't know how research actually is supposed to work, and sadly most people don't know how research is supposed to work. Credible sources, citations, tracebacks, alternate-theory research, all things that most people don't even know they need to look for, let alone how to do them correctly. It's led to an awful lot of horrible bigotry being "justified" to those who solely seek justification for their bigotry and nothing else.
Good point! For many out there, research = reading. As you point out, research requires way more than just reading. It involves inquiring, studying, analysing, interpreting and scrutinizing data in accordance to a methodology.
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