The advertising was an easy and obvious example. I set you up for a straw man but whatever. If you don’t understand the harmful effects social media has on mental health and how it’s different from other forms of media/content, I’m not going to hold your hand through that. The sophistication of engagement algorithms should be obvious. The purpose of a surgeons general warning would be to raise awareness of those specific mental health issues that can be aggravated by excessive social media use. Raising the awareness of an issue is step in the right direction. Fine to call it a band aid but there’s no need to shit on progress of any type.

Lol what? You’re going from comic book bans to covid microchips now. Idk you’re weird.

That is apples and oranges. Clicking through rabbit holes isn’t the result of an aggressive algorithm designed to prime you for products being advertised. The motivation for the content being hosted is the major issue and exploitation of younger people in service of that motivation.

https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/teen-social-media-use

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785056/

This Harvard one is over 7 years old.

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/17/12/social-media-and-teen-anxiety

I think you have a critical thinking issue.

“Probably”

Christian freak out 80 years ago vs modern doctors. Samesies, right? Ya dunce.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785056/

https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/teen-social-media-use

Comparing decades old satan panic stuff with modern behavioral sciences is legit the dumbest thing I’ve read today. Congrats.

There’s so many sun genres but I always liked “crack rock-steady” which is more hardcore punk/metal influences. Leftover crack has already been mentioned but No Cash is another good one in that vein. All that’s no horns though.

You mentioned you like Less than Jake so I’m guessing you like the horns and the more bombastic sounds compared to the reggae bass sounds. Only bands like that off the top of my head are Voodoo Glow Skulls. Idk if you can find them anywhere but Link 80 is awesome too. They’re just good, straight up skate punk with some great horns. Old “give them the boot” and “Asian man records” complications would have a lot of different stuff too.

“Ska sucks” by Propaghandi is a must listen song too lol