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Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours
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This is what lanyards are for! Keep your phone on a lanyard, your lanyard on your neck, and your phone won't fall onto the ground.
The dropped phone caused nothing. The woman’s desperation and naive decision to recklessly retrieve it herself was the cause.
I thought the same, but it does speak to the attachment, dependence, and somewhat fetishizing relationship some of us have with our phones.
Broken vertebra, thats not nice. All the best to that poor soul. But thats another story.
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I believe the "who confuses correlation and causation" part is redundant.Who is responsible for the clickbait headlines?
"Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours"
The difference between causality and correlation needs to be explained perhaps...
I don’t think Macrumors counts as “social media.” It’s neither social nor media.
There's a very, very big difference between justifying people dying, and justifying people laughing at someone almost dying. Or even laughing at someone dying, which isn't even the case here.
I disagree with both, but I understand that people have different definitions of the same things.
While I do think the situation is funny, I think people are being quite harsh calling it stupidity. She dropped a thing, she tried to lean down to get it back, she slipped and fell. I know a person who is blind after missing a step on some stairs. **** happens, you don't have to be stupid for unfortunate things to happen. I don't believe any single person in this thread calling her stupid, hasn't done anything in their life that is at least equally stupid, and could have gotten them killed if they were unlucky. But hey, maybe one person exists that never crossed a road without looking both ways.
I know, I'm just pointing out the irony that the exact mindset you display in your complaint is what caused those services to be junkyards. You engaged with the article, which makes the article seem succesful, so now we get more.
Someone (might have been Myke Hurley) pointed out on a podcast recently that as the new services that have popped up are growing, the amount of junk posts and angry complainers are also growing. It turns out the problem was never the service, the problem was the people. The more people are using any service with a social angle, including forums like this one, the more trashy it is going to become. Crappy social media didn't make people idiots, it's the idiots that made social media crappy. Sad fact of life.
The headline is misleading as the causation is indirect. But it is definitely not a correlation.
