• acargitzEnglish
    26•3 days ago

    a) He’s right and you know he’s right. Doomscrolling is not healthy and tech companies maximize engagement regardless of the addiction and mental health implications.

    b) He was talking about the state of journalism and in that specific context what he said makes even more sense.

    c) That epic sculpture he’s sitting in front of is sick and looks like what a comic book corrupt cardinal would be sitting in front of while threatening batman or something.

    d) Fuck the church institutions that cover up decades of abuse and horrible crimes.

  • celeste
    66•4 days ago

    This article is fascinating in its choice of headlines. It briefly mentions the headline quote, and then goes on to primarily talk about the number of journalists who were killed last year. It was just an article about a conference the pope spoke at, but i really thought it’d be about something else before i read it. Successful clickbait, i guess???

    • @[email protected]English
      17•4 days ago

      You’d think they’d lead with the journalists. Guess they think cellphones are more important.

    • @mkwtEnglish
      13•4 days ago

      This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

      This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

      • RickyWars1English
        2•2 days ago

        Of course, but it’s entirely unrelated to the body of the article.

  • PhoenixzEnglish
    10•4 days ago

    Moreso than unquestioningly believing the ramblings of a bunch of half high goat herders from 2000 years ago?

  • @chonglibloodsportEnglish
    14•4 days ago

    He’s totally right. My attention span is shot. Need to take long breaks from scrolling to get it back.

    • @DelphiaEnglish
      6•4 days ago

      Comments wiil be full of “bUt ChRiStIaNiTy”

      Like in every OTHER thread Lemmy wont shut the fuck up about FB/IG/TT/Etc and their engagement algorithms and how they are manipulating society…

      Yes, the broken clock is right.

      • PhoenixzEnglish
        3•4 days ago

        Yeah, they’re both shit.

        Unending scrolling on short attention span websites is obviously bad

        Believing in any religion is obviously bad

        See? It’s not that hard

  • @[email protected]English
    4•3 days ago

    I find it hard to trust this source. This sounds like ai generated garbage when you listen to the voice in the video.

  • @brlemworldEnglish
    9•4 days ago

    That man isn’t qualified to give medical advice.

    • @touristEnglish
      4•4 days ago

      I legit had to look up if brain rot was a legit medical term.

      I’m legit infected with brain rot where do i seek help

      • @captainlezbianEnglish
        2•3 days ago

        Since rots are usually fungus seek out veterinary anti fungals

  • magnetosphere
    6•4 days ago

    Okay, grandpa. Time to take off your pointy hat and lay down for your nap. You’ve had a big day!

  • @AstridWipenaughEnglish
    5•4 days ago

    And excessive blind fanaticism causes kiddie diddlers. Yet here we are.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•4 days ago

      I think complex developmental factors create kiddy diddlers while heirarchical and “mandated” social structures give them the power and access they’re really interested in.

      Blind fanaticism is a separate problem.

  • Cousin MoseEnglish
    2•4 days ago

    I’d typically agree but since I’ve scrolled Lemmy and News (Apple’s news app) rather aimlessly for ~1 year now I notice a lot of people are behind or misled on a lot of topics. They’re usually stuck in an echo chamber but some just generally have lives to live offline.