• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org
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      6 hours ago

      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.