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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours ago Right now, the algorithm is more harmful than those because everyone is addicted to them. Again, I don’t think you’re acknowledging the difference between chemical addiction and social habit. If you spend a week without cell phone reception, you don’t die from withdrawal symptoms.
minus-squareHakuso@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoPeople have commuted suicide, though. Just because it’s not a physical addiction does not men it can’t be as extreme, and generally a physical addiction will end up with nausea, exhaustion, and mood swings rather than death. It takes deep or long-term addiction to be fatal.
Again, I don’t think you’re acknowledging the difference between chemical addiction and social habit.
If you spend a week without cell phone reception, you don’t die from withdrawal symptoms.
People have commuted suicide, though.
Just because it’s not a physical addiction does not men it can’t be as extreme, and generally a physical addiction will end up with nausea, exhaustion, and mood swings rather than death. It takes deep or long-term addiction to be fatal.