Because especially in this forum, obesity literally does not exist and if it does is never the person's fault but rather big food producing addictive meals / not walkable cities / exercise is bad for your joints / et cetera ...
> My Macbook needs a restart periodically. Somehow my quite limited disk space (500GB) is getting lower and lower and lower to the point where spotlight will stop working. After restart, I magically get 50GB of disk space back, I'm not sure what is wrong with it
I don't know, I bought RDR2 and wasted hours of progress for a launcher bug that is corrupting savegames that Rockstar very well knows about and decided to never fix. Because once you already spent for the game, who cares about the user experience after sale, right?
Air conditioning is just a heat pump, so in a scenario in which all the indoor spaces are cooled, the outside temperature will rise significantly because all that energy must go somewhere, it does not magically disappear.
So AC is making the problem worse, or just worse for all those that are forced outside.
> It's true that historically Europe is cooler than similar latitudes in North America. But there's also an anti-AC movement in Europe based partly on environmentalism, partly on reflexive anti-Americanism, and partly due to a general preference for "naturalness"/suspicion of anything new.
To be honest not the arcade era, but what came after (home personal computers et al.) did really usher in one more reason to isolate in the comfort of one's own room.
> I wonder what’s happened to capital over this time? Value of S & P 500, inflation-adjusted, 1/2000 to 9/2025 (same period as the wage data):
> 2000: $1,394
> 2025: $6,688
> On average, for more than the students' entire lives, stock-owners like Schmidt and (to a much lesser extent) I have stolen every last drop of the productivity increase of US workers at every age and education level.
> On average, for more than the students' entire lives, stock-owners like Schmidt and (to a much lesser extent) I have stolen every last drop of the productivity increase of US workers at every age and education level.
but, but, but, capitalism wa supposed to be good, right?
Because oftentimes towns and cities were not build from the ground up in a completely new continent, and most of all, are made of bricks or cement, not wood.
> Just 20% of European homes even have air conditioning.
And half of the percentage of obese population so draw your conclusions.
> I don't believe this is a problem unique to smartphones.
Yes, a smartphone with no social media pplication installed is as much dumb as a classic flip phone. The object itself is not the problem here.
I am not a big social media user so I use mine mostly to check in with family and friends, listen to music, mapping, and tracking sports. On the rare occasions I use Instagram I just follow some athletes and share a couple of memes with friends, then after 10 minutes I am nauseated by it.