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prinoodles t1_j781sw5 wrote

Reply to comment by DragonRei86 in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

My child is 4.5 and her tv time is about one episode of Sesame Street on the weekend if she remembers it. This only started like 6 months ago when she got sick and we were trying to make her rest. I think if you start the kid off with books and fun activities, they don’t tend to find tv that interesting. When my daughter was younger, when we went to other people’ houses and they had tv on, she would watch for 5 minutes and lose interest. Real world is a lot more interesting to her.

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DragonRei86 t1_j780u21 wrote

Reply to A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

Anyone else's child show zero interest in the TV until they were a bit older? My son didn't care about the TV at all no matter what was on, until he was about 2.5

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[deleted] t1_j780ntu wrote

Reply to comment by TEDDYMONSTER2 in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

I’m not saying it will collapse, but the age of information has allowed people to become shockingly dumb and lacking in critical thinking. I can’t tell you how many gen z people have been hired at my job in entry level roles that have just piss poor performance and motivation. I’m like I get it, the world sucks, the economy is built against you. But we hired a previously retired guy for the same role and he is running circles around literally kids less than half his age. It’s so infuriating when people just don’t care. I say this as a millennial, I’m not some boomer saying nobody wants to work. We pay a good wage, good benefits, good insurance and there’s plenty of room for advancement for go getters. But literally every single gen z has either quit or just does bare minimum and sits on their phones.

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TEDDYMONSTER2 t1_j77zfxz wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

Said every generation ever. Society didn’t collapse when the boomers entered the workforce, and it won’t when the zoomers enter it.

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cinnam00n7 t1_j77y4dj wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

There’s nothing wrong with distracting a kid with 5 minutes of screen time at a doctor. OP was most likely referring to parents who constantly rely on screen time to distract their kids bc they don’t have the energy or care to interact with them. Your “non-parent” comment followed by your bad example could imply you are an inadequate parent as you gave such a unique example that happens rarely. I hope you aren’t, but just saying. Kids more than ever are being handed electronic devices because their parents DO NOT have the energy to work full time and raise them “properly”. It is a fault of the system and not on parents. HOWEVER if you are going to be a parent and you know money or time is going to be short you need to be responsible and proactive in deciding when and how many kids to have if any at all. It is becoming increasingly common to see toddlers with ipads at a restaurant completely disengaged with the rest of the family, and most often thats exactly how they are at home too.

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PyrrhoTheSkeptic t1_j77vn5f wrote

Reply to Researcher about the sound level in the workplace finds that individual’s physiological wellbeing is optimal when sound level is at 50 dBA by giuliomagnifico

That is pretty quiet, which is not surprising. It is also not surprising that it is not absolute silence, as one typically does not have that in one's life.

I would expect the particular frequencies of sound may affect this, as well as the type of sound (i.e., music that one likes versus music one dislikes, ocean sounds, etc.).

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Seared_Beans t1_j77sbch wrote

Reply to comment by Putin_Delenda_Est in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent

My guy, it won't be aristocracy. It's gonna be rampant space imperialism, you know, like we do every single time we find resources in mass ripe for the taking. Hording resources, and controlling planets in the solar system is gonna end up being their goal. They will have no interest in a project that won't make profit for 200-500 years. This ain't months without profit, this is lifetimes of investment with no gaurentee of a return (because we don't have a clue how possible this really is) the conquest of the solar system is far more likely (and we've already started it) than an interstellar one in the near to distant future. And money is already being made in it

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