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Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by toyg on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:56AM (#39259728)
That's sad, but on the other hand - I bet nobody now has to deal with broken bottles, urine, and the other dreck that festive gatherings tend to produce.

Modern society is definitely more deliberate in how people interact. You lose some poetic spontaneity but gain in peace and order, which make society scale up. I'm not saying it's all good but it's a trade-off.

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Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by engineer_22 on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:23AM (#39260964)
> You lose some poetic spontaneity but gain in peace and order,

Heh, knock on wood. It's an election year.

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Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by CalRobert on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:44AM (#39261717)
I think some people dancing on a street corner in the 40's and 50's is a far cry from the junk you see today. Given that this was before plastic was commonplace I doubt there was too much persistent litter, and if someone pees in a bush I don't really care.
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Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by toyg on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:50AM (#39261772)
> a far cry from the junk you see today.

Maybe, but what I'm saying is that, if they were to do it today, as the parent comment wistfully longs for, that would be what the locals have to put up with.

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Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by JohnFen on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:55AM (#39262484)
> but gain in peace and order

It doesn't seem obvious to me that this is true. Is there data about this?

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