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Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

835 points · 738 comments · barry-cotter

  1. zkmon · · focus · HN ↗
    Blame the screens. Screens are blackholes that suck up your time, attention, awareness and senses.

    Screens are evil. They wake up the dead past as if it's alive and happening now. It became so much the norm, that people are afraid to face the real world, real people, real talking. "Dinner party? OMG, real people with real faces that force us to talk to them? Noway sir".

    Screens disconnected people from real world, from each other. I was trying a VR headset the other days and immediately threw it away, as it shut off my visual and audio senses completely.

    1. chaosharmonic · · focus · HN ↗
      Or, it's because no one can afford spaces to host company:

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;1-in-3-young-adults-living-with-parents-2025-more-than-pandemic-employed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;1-in-3-young-adults-living-wi...

      1. mepiethree · · focus · HN ↗
        People have had parties in parents basements, tenements, city parks, open fields, caves, for all of human history
        1. geodel · · focus · HN ↗
          Yeah, pretty much. Seems now dinner party means it has to be some kind of gala event.
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