Isn’t colorblindness almost exclusively found in males too?

Probably oversimplifying, but it’s something about the mutation being on the X chromosome, meaning women have a backup X and men don’t.

Thank you! I picked the uniform adjustment for my profile pic.

What a hero!

Wow, instant subscribe right there.

Yeah, this is probably a chart showing social isolation and living online. Of course that would increase during lockdowns too, but the trend was already there.

I tried searching, but I can’t find anything. =(

(I stole this meme)

I also think a lot of “doomer” content on social media can have a significant effect if you’re consuming a lot of it.

Imagine you’re a teenager and you’re constantly reading the most extreme takes about how everything is broken and terrible, the bad guys are always winning, you’ll never find love, you’ll never find a job, never own a house, never manage to have a family, etc.

An adult may have the life experience and perspective to recognize that the loudest voices aren’t always 100% accurate, but a kid might take it at face value and despair.

It’s a psychological consequence of polarization, which occurs when you have too many people in a social group agreeing with each other.

Groupthink elevates extreme opinions.

How do you feel about carrots and leafy greens?

Yeah, the upward trend seems to be around the time that teens would have gotten smartphones with data plans.

Unfortunately I think that only works from your instance’s perspective. The majority of lemmy can still see the CIA oppressing you!

Yes, this is reasonable.

And they were all terrifyingly productive

This is why federated social media is important.

Many versions of the Bible have sadly censored the mentions of Iron Man over the years.

Ea-nāṣir really thought he was gonna get away with it.

Maybe that’s why she said no.