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I mean, there are some theories that the mental illness epidemic is partially caused by internet use. I did strict 2 months Internet fast and I can attest it has a healing effect. Does it have entertainment-to-death effect? I guess there is a bigger than expected number of suicides that wouldn't happen have the people not been addicted to Internet. But I agree with every passing year we are moving further and further into entertainment-to-death with our civilisations.
Makes me kinda sad to work in tech industry.
Ask HN: Risk with cold DMing on FB / Instagram?
Does anyone have bad experience with that? Do people get banned for this?
Another example: Industry sponsored conferences. Doctors are invited to a 3 day 4 star hotel stay to attend a conference. Technically, talks that are paid shilling are specially marked as sponsored talks.
But are the other doctors, who are getting paid to speak there 100% independent?
Will you be a 100% independent doctor after getting free presents?
Maybe you will. But industry probably found its profitable if they spent millions on these kinds of conferences.
Also lie repeated multiple times makes you believe in, there are psychological studies. So when you spend hour listening how drug X is gold, you might start believing its gold
I am sending each one I encounter here on HN new to a friend and he is super annoyed with me.
Lets keep them coming
I am also thinking about not news per se but opinion pieces, lifestyle, technology articles?
After that, I did a lot of buying without touching things. Also bought a lot of IKEA because seriously I got fedup with the whole experience of buying furniture
I actually found another problem that is also very annoying, at least where I live. I had specific items from my architect, but I wanted to touch most of the things before buying. Had to call 10 shops for each item to ask if they have it on exposition!
Harder to make money on this, and not sure if this problem is in USA but so annoying for buyers
Ukraine and Russia draw up neutrality plan to end war
The Psychology of Your Scrolling Addiction
I think its very funny, him speaking about 2hours a day, like his in grave danger. He didnt mention anything about being presecuted.
I happen to know people stuck in Ukraine fearing for their life so please excuse me that I find it hard to emphatize with him. I would feel bad if he dint overstate how bad his situation is.