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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 by swores on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:16AM (#42540097)
They very obviously weren't claiming that, they were responding to a specific comment about there being nothing interesting on smartphones. Try to interpret what people say with good faith.
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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 by GeoAtreides on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:21AM (#42540123)
the subtext of their comment, the unspoken implication, the between the lines meaning was that it's fine people are on their phone all the time, because some of them are reading books
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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 by Dilettante_ on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:03AM (#42540729)
I didn't read it like that at all.
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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 by GeoAtreides on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:22AM (#42540851)
obviously I did

what do we do now, ask other users for their input? make a poll?

i don't know why HN has this habit of using anecdotes as absolute counter-arguments, makes for uninteresting discussion in my opinion

and the subtext is always the same "A did/didn't happen to me, so then it follows A does/doesn't happen to anyone"

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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 by Dilettante_ on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:32AM (#42540932)
Actually, you phrased your previous post as though it were a fact, not an opinion, so it's more like "A didn't happen for me, so A does not happen for everyone."

I was challenging your assertion, not making a counter-assertion.

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