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I watched this video that proposed that the way to quit phone addiction was to give your hands something else to fiddle with, proposing that in older societies, people spent massive amounts of time on mindless hand work like weaving baskets, knitting, sharpening spears, etc.


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thebigspacefuck01/17/2026

My mom enjoys her knitting circle. It’s an older crowd of women though