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⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.
It migrated inward.
Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.
That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.
So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.
The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.
The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.
The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.
That is the trade.
A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.
This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.
The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.
It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.
The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.
Grant Bailey@grantjbailey
Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀
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#OTD in 2014:
A fringe Liverpool team play a post-season friendly at the Aviva Stadium, beating Shamrock Rovers 4-0. Iago Aspas, Fabio Borini, Martin Kelly and Jack Dunn all score
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Is he any improvement on Starmer? He’s just a Blairite who:
voted for the war in Iraq then voted against multiple inquiries into it,
as health secretary increased NHS privatisation,
opposed the BDS movement, joined Friends of Israel and praised the Balfour Declaration
Andy Burnham@AndyBurnhamGM
I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS
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Ciekawa kombinacja w Warszawie.
🏃♀️ Białorusińska lekkoatletka biegająca dla Polski.
⚪️🔴⚪️🇺🇦 Flagi wolnej Białorusi i Ukrainy.
✌🏻 Propracowniczy przekaz.
O taką Polskę warto walczyć.
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@1980Sohail Klopp and most of his players are gone now , I've been feeling that way since last season
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I am absolutely done with football, It was my life my hobby my passion, that bald twat has drained it out of me. I gave it 30 odd years of dedication but I simply can’t do it anymore.
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This country deserves better than Starmer vs Streeting.
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@jeremycorbyn You need to drop your ideology for a second and focus on reality - you need to be asking what they did with the fucking money.
Point your ire on the right direction fuckwit
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The housing emergency. Economic insecurity. Underfunding of our NHS.
Not a whisper from anyone involved in the latest Westminster psychodrama about how they would tackle the real crises affecting us all.
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This is the most underrated city in all of Europe.
Glimpses of Culture 🏛️@CharmOfCulture
This is the definitive most underrated city in all of Europe.
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There is nothing more peak Britain than a 77 year old nepo baby, dripping in stolen jewels and hauled around in a gilded carriage, reading a list of hard choices for people who actually work for a living.
A man who just pocketed a £45 million pay rise sat on a literal golden throne today to tell you to "flourish in work" while his government "reforms" your benefits.
To sit there in that much unearned luxury and talk about raising living standards for the masses is a level of delusion that borders on pathology. Absolute mockery of the working class.
The era of the golden parasite needs to end.
#KingsSpeech #AbolishTheMonarchy #CostOfLiving
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Btw #RodgersOut brigade! Klopp failed miserably in a much less competitive German League this season! Grass isn't always greener.....
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Bring him back and give him a billion pound war chest
𝗕𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘆™@bobby_role
Throwback to when Klopp misheard the word fog and thought the reporter was saying 'Brain Fck' 😭
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Could Wes Streeting, Labour’s working-class extrovert, be the party’s next leader? trib.al/q0Fh58Y
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NOW - King Charles: "An increasingly dangerous and volatile world threatens the UK... My government will take urgent action to tackle antisemitism and ensure all communities feel safe."
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NOW - King Charles: "My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID."
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