What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk about young people’s?

Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by kristianc on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:29PM (#33725340)

There is something to this — the general theme of daytime TV in Britain, when it’s not doing endless property shows, or shows where people buy property in other countries, is “the man is out to get you” — a litany of shows on small time criminals, consumer scams, or local crime waves. Perhaps not surprisingly, Britain’s elderly population tends to be very right wing.

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Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:56PM (#33725581)

> a litany of shows on ... consumer scams

That sounds like it could be good to be aware of, came across so many acams myself, most prosperous industry after brexit

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Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by _jal on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:57PM (#33725590)

In the 80s, US AM radio was taken over by similar content. It is happening again with local news, both broadcast and "print".

Seems to be the fate of declining media modalities.

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Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by imtyler on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:37PM (#33725935)

Unless you provide reasoning this comes across as needlessly snide.

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Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by lupire on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:54PM (#33726059)

The parent poster, a 99.99%ile brilliant engineer (seriously) and entrepreneur has a long history of posting libertarians talking points on any vaguely related topic.

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Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by imtyler on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:04PM (#33726161)

I'm not sure what you're trying to assert?

I'm not aware of a ile scale of brilliance. I also don't know why a history or libertarianism is relevant?

I just think that the comment wasn't constructive.

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Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by WalterBright on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:19PM (#33726750)

> libertarians talking points

Frankly, I've haven't read much of any libertarian literature, nor touchstones like Ayn Rand. My opinions come simply from reading lots of history and economic books.

A seminal experience for me was touring East Berlin in 1969. The contrast with West Berlin was stark.

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Re:What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk ... by WalterBright on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:12PM (#33726694)

Here's one for you. It takes 10 government funded housing units to get one homeless person into housing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10511...

It's hard to conclude that this is an effective program.

Some discussion of this in the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/housing-first-foments-homelessn...

A consistent reason why left wing programs fail is they do not take supply&demand into consideration.

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