Back from the dead...and really not happy about what is happening today.
As I once incorrectly said “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”.
Nope. We have seen this before...
The Ghost of Mark Twain
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The difference was sharpest among teens; The birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds fell about 26% between 2007 and 2011 in counties with broad smartphone access, compared with a 14% drop in counties with limited smartphone access.
With all that going on (and it is a lot) we must not forget Pretti and Food, gunned down by invading ICE agents.
Justice has not been served.
So what were the other five commandments?
*Wrong answers only*
11 - 'Murica! Fuck yeah!
12 - Jean shorts shall be the apparel of the chosen people
13 - Guns are God's gift
14 - Always Supersize
And as I once said:
15 - "Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
For women in their 20s, the birth rate fell 15% in counties with broad access, compared with 10% in those with limited access. And for women in their 30s, the birth rate fell slightly in counties with broad access, while it rose in other counties.
The new study can’t explain exactly why smartphones would drive fertility rates down, but the researchers theorize that it may be related to ways the technology has shifted our time and attention — particularly in ways that would make it less likely to have sex and lead to a pregnancy.
The US fertility rate has been trending down for decades. A new paper offers a provocative culprit in a succinct package: the smartphone.
Counties where 90% of residents had early smartphone access fertility rate fell significantly more than in counties where less than 10% of residents had coverage
The smartphone may have become a “substitute” for physical contact and in-person human interaction, Hooper said.
“Instead of looking to somebody else for that interaction, they might be looking to online pornography,”
