Exploitation is fundamental to capitalism. It’s just more obvious in this case.

You can just call it capitalism.

So was anything in your original comment actually true?

WTF. We could probably stop this if they weren’t wasting endless resources on prohibition, genocide, MIC, etc.

If you want to witness the last vestiges of human intellect swirling down the drain, hold your nose and type the words “skibidi toilet” into YouTube.

This is the first sentence. Ohhh the danger of skibidi toilet!!! So dumb. Who takes this boomer crap seriously? lol.

Bonus points for linking to their old (citationless) article about email. It just shows how they roll out this nonsense every couple years with the latest tech.

And if you browse through the actual studies mentioned, they don’t actually say what this article claims. It’s a conflation of “doom scrolling” (unscientific) with various internet addictions, etc. where the studies are fairly vague.

we have never had social media algorithms putting shit into people’s head about themselves and others, all day, every single day.

We still don’t. There are no algorithms putting shit into my head. I choose to use certain apps because I enjoy them, find them useful, etc. I do this when I want, definitely not all day everyday unwillingly. Is it just me? Are y’all really being attacked by algorithms all day? lol.

Some kids today are completely out there with pluto man.

I haven’t seen this.

Y’all talking about dopamine just sound silly. That’s not actually what dopamine is. It’s just pseudo-science to sell grifts like happy pills and violent control of the internet.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-brain/202403/the-truth-about-dopamine-and-your-brain

We have never had machine learning algorithms that exploit human psychology to give precisely timed hits of dopamine.

We still don’t.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-brain/202403/the-truth-about-dopamine-and-your-brain

What’s the difference between “real” and fake money? State control?

At the point where the tokens were supposedly worth $3,000,000, the liquidity could probably only support actual sales of like $3.

They should be teaching kids how to do this in grade school so they don’t fall for it in high school. Too bad they gotta pay for computer science classes…

^ Imagine being this mad about TikTok. This is another reason why libs lost the election.

Capital is literally going to destroy the planet so a few dickheads can have yachts.

Well ofc money is speech! How ludicrous to assume otherwise… It’s an amazing system here… They ban apps for the poors while the rich control all media. Why don’t these TikTok kids understand this? \s

Yep, this is where libs come out to defend the wacky state instead of basic human rights.

I expected a bigger celebration after months of them cheering on this ban.

Pretty sure it’s cause he’s a privileged man baby who’s “job” is going to luxurious lunches, etc.

It only took a week for a huge corporation to buy expensive computers, copy an app onto it, and hook up stolen data? That sounds about right.

Then it seems there is something other to fix in society

Yeah that’s why we’re on Lemmy. It’s not perfect but it’s better than zuck, elmo, spez, and pals.

No need for the state to attack kids.

This is good support for their mental health and development.

This is good pseudo-science.

It’s inevitable and it helps me personally so stop resisting.