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#1 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Doesn't explain why the US dropped so far, as screen time hasn't decreased or increased.

Worldwide, the average person spends a total of 6 hours and 37 minutes looking at a screen each day (for internet-connected activities). The average American spends 7 hours looking at a screen each day. According to data from DataReportal, the average American spends 6 hours and 59 minutes looking at a screen every day.
www.crossrivertherapy.com

Are teenagers growing dimmer?

Every three years the oecd, a club mostly of rich countries, releases the results of international school tests sat by 15-year-olds all across the world. There were reasons to hope that the latest data, published on September 8th, would bring positive news. Marks in mathematics, reading and science had collapsed in the previous round of testing, which was carried out just after the pandemic.
www.economist.com

Screen time isn't the issue, you'd be a fool to propaganda to think its just screen time. The point of saying "screen time" is to put fear in people about computers, phones and its utility.

It's what they are doing with their screen time, over time they are doing less and less structured thinking.
A Short video, notifications, algorithmic feeds, constant task-switching, reduced long-form reading, less boredom, less unstructured thought.

It doesn't have to be this way its not screen time, but the apps they use.

I loved downtown Ft Worth, though. My parents are buried there, and I was born downtown in the Ft Worth Osteopathic Hospital, and the in town Forest Park Zoo was my second home as a kid.

Our family may have been among some of the pioneers who first built thar':

www.logcabinvillage.org

There's quite the nice Japanese Gardens near there now, the Ft Worth Symphony right downtown, the old train station, the old Leonard Bros Dept Store, which became Tandy and then Dillards... and the Amon Carter Museum.


  • We never saw the leggy Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) and Ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) together on the same episode (as he "replaced" her after Season I).

  • As adversaries, the Romulans were never shown on a planet, but always on their spaceships fighting The Federation. Similarly, the Klingons were always depicted on a planet, never aboard their own ships. Viewers saw the face a Klingon commander on the Enterprise bridge screen, but no more.

    "FUNNY"

  • Another view ...

    Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time
    www.reuters.com

    ...Teenagers more accustomed to smartphones than Shakespeare are reading at the worst levels seen this century, driving a broader decline in education, a global student assessment found.

    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 2025 test of 760,000 15-year-olds across 91 countries showed reading, mathematics and science scores at their lowest levels since data began to be collected in 2000. ...


    The third largest county in TX, which includes Ft. Worth, shuttered 92 polling places compared to the prior midterm.
    fortworthreport.org

    They're expecting a HIGHER turnout than 2022, of course...yet they'll have 92 fewer places to vote.

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