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  • OT: Evidence that social media is making people dumb

    From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 23 12:22:29 2025
    A guy wants to test the "theory" that dropping a plugged toaster into
    your bathtub will hurt you. Don't worry, he's wearing a helmet to
    prevent himself from further damaging his brain.

    <https://www.bitchute.com/video/rWC2PZsWPHAq/?list=notifications&randomize=false>

    --
    God be with you,

    CrudeSausage
    Islam is the enemy
    John 14:6

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Sat Aug 23 18:06:19 2025
    On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:22:29 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    A guy wants to test the "theory" that dropping a plugged toaster into
    your bathtub will hurt you. Don't worry, he's wearing a helmet to
    prevent himself from further damaging his brain.

    <https://www.bitchute.com/video/rWC2PZsWPHAq/?
    list=notifications&randomize=false>

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBUBzk2ZIU

    It wasn't WD-40 but a salesman for a similar product demonstrated its properties by spraying down an open relay and dropping it in the sink
    while plugged in. It was a similar non-event.

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Sat Aug 23 21:02:31 2025
    On 2025-08-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    A guy wants to test the "theory" that dropping a plugged toaster into
    your bathtub will hurt you. Don't worry, he's wearing a helmet to
    prevent himself from further damaging his brain.

    <https://www.bitchute.com/video/rWC2PZsWPHAq/?list=notifications&randomize=false>


    the other night I had dinner at my favorite steakhouse and while waiting for my order to arrive I noticed 2 families sitting at 2 different tables. I'm assuming
    they were both families as there was an adult male, female and each had 2 children
    probably early teens.

    What troubled me was that every single person at both tables was glued to their phone. Even when the servers came by with their food, they didn't even move from their
    phones.
    From what I could tell, there was little interaction or vocal conversation around either
    table.

    It kind of scared me to think that this is what we have become.
    The lyric "We are all just prisoners here of our own device" has come to pass.


    --
    pothead

    "Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
    Then our choices make us."
    -- Anne Frank

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to pothead on Sat Aug 23 21:22:37 2025
    On Aug 23, 2025 at 5:02:31 PM EDT, "pothead" <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:

    On 2025-08-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    A guy wants to test the "theory" that dropping a plugged toaster into
    your bathtub will hurt you. Don't worry, he's wearing a helmet to
    prevent himself from further damaging his brain.

    <https://www.bitchute.com/video/rWC2PZsWPHAq/?list=notifications&randomize=false>


    the other night I had dinner at my favorite steakhouse and while waiting for my
    order to arrive I noticed 2 families sitting at 2 different tables. I'm assuming
    they were both families as there was an adult male, female and each had 2 children
    probably early teens.

    What troubled me was that every single person at both tables was glued to their
    phone. Even when the servers came by with their food, they didn't even move from their
    phones.
    From what I could tell, there was little interaction or vocal conversation around either
    table.

    It kind of scared me to think that this is what we have become.
    The lyric "We are all just prisoners here of our own device" has come to pass.

    Living it up at the Hotel California!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to pothead on Sat Aug 23 19:18:17 2025
    On 2025-08-23 5:02 p.m., pothead wrote:
    On 2025-08-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    A guy wants to test the "theory" that dropping a plugged toaster into
    your bathtub will hurt you. Don't worry, he's wearing a helmet to
    prevent himself from further damaging his brain.

    <https://www.bitchute.com/video/rWC2PZsWPHAq/?list=notifications&randomize=false>


    the other night I had dinner at my favorite steakhouse and while waiting for my
    order to arrive I noticed 2 families sitting at 2 different tables. I'm assuming
    they were both families as there was an adult male, female and each had 2 children
    probably early teens.

    What troubled me was that every single person at both tables was glued to their
    phone. Even when the servers came by with their food, they didn't even move from their
    phones.
    From what I could tell, there was little interaction or vocal conversation around either
    table.

    It kind of scared me to think that this is what we have become.
    The lyric "We are all just prisoners here of our own device" has come to pass.

    It's part of why I don't want to have a smartphone anymore. A flip phone
    will do. The only thing I will miss, I guess, is access to podcasts.

    --
    God be with you,

    CrudeSausage
    Islam is the enemy
    John 14:6

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