I've started wondering if all the hours I spent being bored as a kid, looking out windows on long car or school bus rides, were actually important to my cognitive development. Growing up with infinite distraction available at your fingertips 24/7 may actually be a poisoned chalice.
The key differentiator is if someone is late to everything (because they have OCD or whatever), or if they manage to make it on time to things that are important to them (airplane departures, hair appointments, job interviews, etc.).
"Throw The Bums Out" is one of the oldest and most successful campaign messages in the history of democracy. Are Democrats making a terrible mistake by embracing it? - yeah, thanks NYT
It also doesn't work! 2020 saw three separate catastrophes happening at once, including street mobilizations around BLM/George Floyd, and the popular response was to...flock the oldest, more establishment normie Dem imaginable.
It's an inverted politics version of those tacticool daily loadout dudes who need to be fully strapped and checking their six and situationally aware every time they go to Dennys
This really seems like the leftoid equivalent of those right wingers with their full tactical everyday loadouts. Can't go to Denny's unless you're fully strapped, situationally aware, and checking your six = can't protest without following these 79 rules and taking dozens of hours of training.
Noem is doing this because it looks good to her boss, and it pisses off the libz. That's it. It doesn't matter if it convinces a single person to blame Democrats for the shutdown, the real audience is a single old man with slurry for brains.
If it's such a miracle, must-have, can't-live-without-it technology, then why do they have to keep cramming it into every nook and cranny and trick people into using it? I don't recall people having to buffaloed into adopting the iPhone or Netflix or the Netscape browser like this.
