While I think studies like this are bunk, I think it’s a mistake to assume that there is no real effect on cognitive health.

We know that using LLMs is addictive. I can’t imagine that long term use is going to be as benign as long term use of a calculator.

More well thought out than your original comment

Ah yes, Australia, famously immune from capitalism

Almost everyone in the family and community in which I was raised believes that human-caused climate change is not real. They believe that all climate change is a wholly unavoidable phenomenon that is just part of the earth’s natural cycle.

You can imply that no one has actually been fooled by the oil industry’s propaganda all you want, but it’s both incorrect & unproductive to do so.

I agree with you. My contention, again, is with the logical inconsistency in lucidlethargy’s original comment.

If you read their comment in its entirety, they are very clearly talking about how they think that people should have voted for Harris in the general presidential election, and praising Morello’s recent words for seemingly supporting this perspective.

This ignores Morello’s previous statement that he did not vote for Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Regardless of how he may have secretly voted, he told people not to vote for Trump’s opposition.

My contention is with the lack of logic in your reasoning for elevating Tom Morello.

His words are not only at odds with your stated position, but they are at odds with his own words.

I don’t give a fuck about how you feel about Macklemore.

Of the two musicians, Tom Morello is the only who has expressly said that he did not vote for Harris in 2024, which seems inconsistent with your reason for elevating him while judging Macklemore.

In my personal experience, especially in recent years, cashiers are often not even faster than self-checkout (though I’ve often experienced bagging pressure, lol). They’re either chatty extroverts who slow everything down because they’re socializing too much, or they’re new employees who don’t seem to know how to do their job yet (I assume this is prevalent due to high turnover, which is increasingly common).

The DSA has been a pretty big topic in U.S. political news for at least the past year, lol

EDIT: adding the caveat that both the right wing and establishment democrats/centrists are actively trying to suppress DSA popularity, as they have always done with socialist movements, so that could be a big reason why you might not have heard of them.