• BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world
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    58 minutes ago

    I dunno. I found it pretty addicting when I was holding both a vape and my phone, and I had doomscrolled for 9 hours till the battery died without having hit my vape once

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Gotcha, I can do 16 hours of Insta on coke off the toilet seat and be OK. Thank you CDC!

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    What did Snapchat and TikTok settle for? Did they just pay money to not to expose themselves in court? Or did they actually settled to FUCKING FINALLY crack down on addiction and other issues on their platform? (x) Doubt

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    4 hours ago

    A system that benefits people who lie about objective facts should be destroyed.

    If the tactical business decision is to look someone in the face and say “spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours, idly gazing at photos of anything is not an addiction” in order to protect business interests, then things are wrong. Addiction to a product should be met with horror! Oh no, how could this happen? Instead, it’s part of the business model.

    “Business” is a blight.

  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    Well, it’s very simple, don’t you see? When he makes money, it’s not addiction When he makes no money, it’s addiction

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    They want to be an integral part of our lives, like thinking, except they’ll take the place of thinking, or talking, or even looking around.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Selling our data implies that we get to have profits.

      Life is better without companies selling our data.

      Might be tad more on point.