Additionally, from what I’ve read there doesn’t seem to be a noticeable health benefit.

I think it has a lot to do with how our nutrition and dental care has improved in many ways since they decided adding fluoride to water would benefit people.

It is one point I will give to the conspirturds and nutcases, but a small point. None of this is critical or dire, the effects are marginal and nobody is going to really notice a difference whatever happens. I wish they could have been this concerned about people’s health and well-being when we were you know… being ravaged by an actual lethal virus that was killing millions and is still active and harming people every day.

you just angered the entire AI/singularity community. Expect a sternly worded, AI-generated notice.

I don’t think that’s entirely accurate, young people are definitely not “more chill” if anything they’ve just had to grow up faster in a world that bombards everyone with every adult concern as soon as they can read or pick up a phone.

There are some good things, like the massive drop in teen pregnancy and general decline of violence all around. But there’s now an epidemic of loneliness and depression affecting people of all ages, starting early in life. People have largely retreated to personal safety of their own online lives, and the shift to online dating hasn’t been good to people. Social media and scrolling is killing everyone’s attention-spans and ability to compromise and socialize. Women still are in danger of assault. Men are still desperately lonely. Existing is still a massive challenge if you don’t fall into the gender or sexuality binary and conservatism is on the rise among many young men because of sexual frustration and emotional vulnerabilities to the narratives of grifters. Definitely NOT chill shit going on and we have the dawning of technology that will make it even harder for people to connect. AI that can reliably fool people is going to throw a massive wrench into our entire culture. It’s worth being concerned about but we also have to encourage each other and ourselves to actually do challenging things like going out and talking to live humans as much as possible.

I am an adult and I do this too, but not because sex bothers me, it’s because the vast majority of sex in mainstream media is incredibly stilted and embarrassing to watch. Cinema has had over a century to try to portray and capture actual relationships between people and still hasn’t even come close to accurately portraying attractive, affectionate chemistry between two people.

The fact that in mainstream programs and movies, the lead characters ALWAYS have to have this “enemies to lovers” dynamic makes me gag. It was funny once or twice, but that’s not remotely how real people have real intimate relationships, so why does Hollywood lean in SO HARD to the same trope of the sassy female proving she’s as tough as the rugged male anti-hero and they always have to have this weird battle-of-wills where they have separate goals and can’t show affection openly to each other.

It’s no longer interesting. I have seen porn with better, loving, attractive relationships.

Originally it was supposed to be an optical illusion that looks like three or four rods from different angles.

This edit has changed it to be just literally three. It’s a joke on certain people denying reality.