That's what happened in my high school years in France, which still changes clocks twice a year. Wake up in complete night, take the bus and wait for classes to start under yellow lightbulbs, then go out in the sun for the first time in the day at noon.

I don't understand why people are afraid that this will bring what was already happening.

Even if we assume that correlation is causation, I haven’t seen much of that evidence.

I only skimmed for references after the comparison with junk food, hunger, and cavemen. It truly sounds like they are making this up as they go along.

Where are these ads? I never see pornographic ads in my daily browsing.

> The dopamine response to seeing porn is similar to crack (4).

That doesn't prove anything about harmfulness. I think it was already obvious that humans are hardwired to be attracted to sex. Nothing in these links suggests that this response creates to an addiction similar to hard drugs.

> Pornography is categorically more dangerous to society than ads, tracking, and privacy invasions.

I don't accept that based on your sources.

Nope, by any measure, smart kids are way smarter than most adults I encounter. People who throw basic logic out the window because they want to believe that something is a certain way for emotional reasons often behave worse than kids.

Not all kids of course, but I think I've known more reasonable kids than reasonable adults overall.

> Stupid people are happier then smart people.

I know people who are much smarter than me and seem genuinely happy all the time.

I think it's more about how strong one's social mesh is, how happy people in one's entourage are, and one's own approach to life. If you're very smart and surrounded by smart people who you also like, you're happy.

Edit: maybe someone's scraper was too efficient.

How much did the original iPhone and iPad cost to create? I imagine it would be an easy effort for 2022 Apple, and even a total failure would not dent their revenue by much. I can't imagine Cook being unable to do it.

These are hypotheses that I wouldn't rely on to give advice. It could discourage someone who is dissatisfied with themselves from trying to change. Who says it's impossible? Your personal experience, or observing people around you, or a study on 1000 people?

Do you have a full-time job? That would take most of my evenings if I decided to do it.

I expect it to keep getting better.

I could do with absurdly high savings though. For everything from future projects to safe vacations and financial emergencies.

The lifestyle creep only happens if I actually spend that money instead of investing it.

Interesting. Can you define "eaten up"? With my west-European salary, I can save around 1k/month. Since junior SWEs in California can apparently make 100 to 150k, I imagine that an "eaten-up" 300k would still let me save much, much more than in Europe. Is that unrealistic?