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Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? by jimbokun on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:04PM (#31288648)
There was a study with a soup bowl that would automatically refill, and found people ate a lot more than they would if just given a regular soup bowl.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15761167/

It strikes me the Internet is now a bottomless soup bowl of content, and we have know indicators to tell us when we should stop.

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Re:Why do you waste so much time on the internet? by spupe on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:18PM (#31289706)
It's a good analogy, but that study was retracted: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/1...
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