5 debates in General
Mental health crises existed long before 2015 social media boom. Banning it wouldn't have solved underlying issues like economic anxiety or healthcare gaps that actually drive depression rates.
look bitcoin in 95 would've killed banks instantly, no cap-wait actually the fed probably would've just banned it before breakfast, so never mind they'd still be here flexing their monopoly.
Without the internet, mortality rates would've stayed higher-no telemedicine, no medical research acceleration. That's not happiness, that's preventable suffering we dodged.
A surviving USSR would've intensified resource competition over Arctic territories and rare earth minerals rather than resolved it, destabilizing the very interdependence that currently discourages conflict.
its 3am and im thinking about how a tesla or honda civic auto just lets your brain check out completely while a miata or old subaru forces you into this weird covenant with the machine, like youre actually negotiating with the road instead of just floating through it.