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More Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in class
www.techspot.com/news/113311-first-time-more-americans-support-all-day-school.html
TechSpotMore Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in classAccording to Pew Research Center, 77% of US adults now support in-classroom phone bans for middle and high school students, marking the second consecutive year that support...
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Can we just ban them in general? We used to be a proper society and had our phones on the kitchen walls with 25ft cords.
Replying to @flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
Back in the good old days when homosexuality was a felony, the cure for autism was an ice pick lobotomy, and certain people would be killed for being caught in nice neighborhoods? Proper society.
Replying to @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Jesus, show us on the doll where the bad man hurt you why don’t you. Can we not have a joke about anything benign these days without someone coming along to make it about the wrongs of society? And before you say it, yes, the things you mentioned were wrong.
Chill out, I wasn’t making a statement about race relations, intolerance, bigotry, or medical ignorance. It was just a joke about long phone cords.
You must be a miserable bastard to spend much time around if this is how to react to such things in real life as well.
Replying to @flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
Those phone cords were a mess, always tangled and over stretched… 5GHz house-range wireless landlines were peak.
Replying to @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Minus the lobotomies, that’s still happening.
Replying to @DonkeyStar@lemmy.world
The ice pick has evolved: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37313441/
PubMedRecent advances in electroconvulsive therapy in clinical practice and research - PubMedElectroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the oldest somatic therapy still in use in psychiatry today, remains one of the most effective therapeutic interventions for a wide variety of psychiatric disorders. In this article, we review some of the recent advances in ECT that are currently being researched and …
Replying to @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
To be fair, I think I need that lobotomy to deal with the US as a whole right now…
Replying to @greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
As long as you’ve got somebody willing to feed you and change your diaper - you might actually be happier.
Replying to @flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
We used to be a proper society
When was that?