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Emma Charlton at the World Economic Forum summarizes a report that finds by cutting out three 10-minute social media checks a day you could read as many as 30 more books a year.
"Just a couple of five-minute breaks every hour are hundreds of hours yearly," the Omni Calculator's creators say. "You cut your social media time by half, and you still get plenty of time to read, run or earn money."
It recommends turning off push notifications that appear on your screen, deleting some apps, calling your friends rather than messaging them, and taking short holidays from all social media once in a while.
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How Many Extra Books Could You Read If You Quit Social Media?
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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 19 2019, @03:36AM (13 children)
Words of wisdom from the CTRL-LEFT.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @04:22AM (12 children)
Better than Alt-Right.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 19 2019, @04:33AM (9 children)
And, even if we accept that there is an alt-right - there is an entire spectrum of positions in between the two.
You guys are sounding like that infamous Neocon, George W. Bush. "If you're not with us, you're against us." And, that puts you in opposition to EVERY FUCKING BODY who isn't an extreme leftist. For the record, I'm not alt-right, nor do I believe that you can even define alt-right to any rational person.
Need I remind you, that on the European political spectrum, I am actually left of center? I've taken that test several times. Near center, but left, and up. Please, take the test, and see where YOU land -
https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html [gotoquiz.com]
http://polquiz.com/ [polquiz.com]
https://www.politicalcompass.org/ [politicalcompass.org]
I like that second link - their chart is slightly different. It puts me firmly within the "moderate" camp, whereas the others make me left-authoritarian.
Go for it - maybe you'll learn for yourself that YOU are the extremist here.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 19 2019, @05:04AM (2 children)
I'm about 75% on both political and economic freedom axes in the second one, so not moderate but not extremist; just solidly libertarian.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday August 19 2019, @05:46AM (1 child)
Second one 80/95 suggests I should vote for Gary Dude Weed LMAO Johnson
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 19 2019, @01:05PM
Why vote for a couple of nuts when you can have the Johnson?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday August 19 2019, @05:25AM (2 children)
According to gotoquiz and politicalcompass I am right in the middle of the left-libertarian quadrant.
Polquiz puts me out in the point of (left-wing) Liberal midway between Libertarian and Totalitarian.
I think they are still lacking in subtlety though. I would say that I am leftist*/hard anarchist on social freedoms and centre-but-tax-the-rich on economic freedoms.
(Note that in regard to society, these quizzes and I are still using the old-fashioned definition of a tolerant, accepting, mind-your-own-business, left.)
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 19 2019, @06:37AM (1 child)
Lacking in subtlety, yes, I have to agree. The real advantage of these tests, is they open your eyes to the fact that left-right scales are even more lacking.
I suspect that real subtlety would require years-long monitoring of multiple tests administered in school. But, I see real problems with that. We already can see schools pushing for conformity to a politically correct viewpoint. If the school system knew more about you, the student, then the school system would have more leverage to force you into conformity. Since the public education system is run by government, that would give unprecedented power to whichever party was on top, at the moment. That power might ensure that the same party stayed on top.
Giving "credit" where it is due, the progressive left has been playing that game for well over fifty years now. I certainly don't want to give them any more tools, and most certainly not any more effective tools.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @10:54AM
This is why on the enhanced scale we added "up" and "down".
Imagine a new axis for plotting the frontier of the kind of man.
Just imagine it.
Right.
Forget it.
DnD already patented it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @09:38AM (2 children)
Not sure about that, considering that there are plenty of radicalized fascists here now. Of course, America is winning that race with their Nazi in-chief. You are not centrist, you are on the right wing. If the chart says "left of center", then maybe something is wrong with the chart.
And my views are not even "left". I'm a liberal. Centrist. Which means that the quiz is fucked. Answering questions about "race" in any way other than non-racist makes you a "leftie".
https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/poli-compare-parties.html [gotoquiz.com]
oh right ... so that makes sense. Democrats, a right-wing party by other nation standards, is very left wing. I think there is something wrong with the scale! And I wonder where actual left wing parties would fit.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 19 2019, @10:44AM
You don't have to be a babbling crazy Marxist to be left of center. That particular test is close to some of the others I've taken:
I'm a little further left, and a little less authoritarian here than in other places. Still, real close.
As for your last paragraph, something is wrong with the scale. That something is dishonesty. The right-wing democratic party is lying to you, to all of us, each and every day. Identity politics is bullshit, through and through. Almost every issue on which the D's take a position, is a distraction away from real, important issues. Those more important issues on which the D's take a position, such as immigration, are clearly designed to undermine the status quo in the US. They don't like that white people outnumber other groups, so they want to bring in enough non-white people to outnumber whites. It's an intentional offensive against white people, that has been ongoing for well over 30 years. Talk more white women into aborting their babies, while bringing in the brown caravans with promises of free goodies - soon enough, there will be no white voice.
Imagine if, instead of white people, the D's were actively working to silence the black voice. Oh, but wait - we don't have to imagine it. The black voice is effectively being silenced at the same time as the white voice, because there are fewer blacks than whites. Odd how that works, huh? Margaret Sanger's dream was to smother the black community in America, after all.
Or, to summarize all of that - the Democratic party in the US is actually alt-right, clothed in leftist garb.
That's why I get so very tired of all the alt-right gobbledy-gook. It's all a pack of lies. D's have more in common with alt-right, fascism, Nazism, and all the other -isms that they attribute to the Republicans, than all the rest of us Americans put together.
Planned Parenthood, celebrating 113 years of surreptitious genocide against Americans, black and white!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @11:07AM
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @03:33PM (1 child)
CTRL-ALT-DELETE will fix it.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 19 2019, @03:55PM
But wouldn't that be wasting your vote? Go ahead! Reject Ctrl-Left and Alt-Right. Just throw your vote away!
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.