get a gym membership or something

have you got a gym membership? I do, it doesn't take up that much time but one can go back to the 50s/60s/70's and see what were people doing? At 11pm what were you options for entertainment, I remember in the 90's it was like, read a book, watch TV, or listen to the radio, not exactly thrilling

In comparison now I have an unlimited entertainment vehicle in trolling the fediverse (1.07K Posts/3.04K Comments god damn), I put in ~an hour at the gym every few days, compared to easily hours on the fediverse every week, some nights I put in more time on the fedi than the gym in a month, and that's JUST the fedi, not even mentioning youtube, telegram, mistral/claude, torrents, movies, music, programming, etcetc

How can we say that gifting someone a dog for christmas that may or may not be mistreated and discarded when the novelty weary of is bad, but kids out of boredom is ok?

I mean I would say it's largely just life, this comes into the overregulation/helicopter parenting, loads of kids would come home from school then just run off for hours until it was time to come home or just for dinner before running off again, parenting shouldn't be a full time job, requiring 24x7 supervision and checking at all times

Ironically because of iphone they now sit inside getting fat watching youtube and tiktok

Like this is the housing we used to live in:

http://romseyaustralia.com/houses.html#7

Now we can't build a house for under a million

We have simultaneously loaded ourselves up with high standards (both with regards to raising kids and the equipment to provide for them) and easy cheap entertainment/calories

It's completely understandable why we're fat and not particularly enthused about raising kids