• ComradeWizardmon2 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 hours ago

    I have a small quibble in this video actually,they says “(bad addictive) in a way we haven’t linguistically differentiated yet”

    That’s backwards, “positive addiction”, to the extent that could be applied to the treat machine accurately, is the new form, it simply obliterated the old definition in the context of treats.

    I’m not convinced we need to hold the new (positive) differentiation at all, nevermind form a more clear distinction between it and the presumptive negative older understanding of the word.

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      5 hours ago

      Tangential example actually. Look how much I’ve posted the the two days I’ve had this account. I’m averaging like 3 an hour even including the hours I sleep and am at work, I’m posting at work right now, and reading almost every post on the site.

      There are times I get so stressed willingly subjecting myself to posting addiction feels preferable, but I always delete the account and go back to lurking fairly shortly cause I can’t actually just live like this. This time prolly a day or two after the election, a place to rage with like minds is cathartic, but that’s not a thing I should be seeking all the time, catharsis. For obvious reasons, political and psychological

      Plenty of people can post responsibly. I literally cannot.