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by dreish 6720 days ago
Why dozens? I thought our threshold was seven, in which case I would be surprised if that doesn't happen every year. In fact, I'll bet far more than seven teen suicides a year would, if they could be interviewed after the fact, cite suburban boredom (and thus the automobile and its transformative effects on society) as the reason for their suicide.

My point was just that this article is the same sort of garbage I thought we'd finally moved past ten years ago. In the 1990s, you could barely open a newspaper or watch TV news without seeing a story about all the scary dangers of the Internet. Child predators can reach through the screen and snatch your children away! If you ever buy anything online, you might as well declare bankruptcy now because your identity will be stolen! Images of breasts turn children into axe murderers!

Please.