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Re:Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a ri... by amelius on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:57PM (#27645270)
On the other hand, are tribes or nations which are not intimately connected to the western world that much better off?

And science evolved greatly in the highly interconnected parts of the world.

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Re:Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a ri... by notriddle on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:54PM (#27648438)
They aren’t better off. That’s what makes this whole thing so dire — there’s value in being different, just for the sake of being different, but nobody is going to willingly choose to do something materially worse just on the off-chance that the Current Best Practice happens to have some horrible, unseen downside 50 years later.
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