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Tell me which one already looks dumber.

This is AI generated which makes it more uncanny than it needs to be. But honestly, what's wrong with wanting to document something by taking picture or video? It's a natural thing that humans want to do, whether by writing it down or sketching picture. Digital photography and videography has now just become much more accessible due to lower cost and near ubiquity of high resolution imaging devices.

All true, but that wasn't what we were talking about. It's which looks dumber.

Are you sure that picture of a man relaxing with a news paper while waiting for his wife to serve breakfast/dinner isn't cringe?

I'm pretty sure the post was making a reference to the addictive properties of cigarettes and smartphones. Yet, either way, society's values change.

Mobile phones and newspapers are very different.

I think he GP was making the comparison based on both phones and cigarettes being addictive. What's the comparison with newspapers that makes one productive of the other?