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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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I don't want a pickle,
I just wanna ride on my motorsickle.
And I don't want to die,
I just want to ride on my motorcy.
Cle.
-- Arlo Guthrie
(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.