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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] maxmalrichtig@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meat and animal products in general.

Linked to quite a lot of health problems, kills the climate and billons of innocent individuals are dying needlessly in the process.

[–] Hangglide@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Humans literally evolved eating other animals. Eating other animals is so ubiquitous in the animal kingdom that if it was bad for you, you wouldn't exist.

It's likely that eating other animals is more healthy than sugar and plant oils.

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[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, i can't look in the future.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Colours. Colours on the screens. Colours on billboards. The colours we wear. The colours of foods we see in pictures. The colours of AI loaded photos we click on smartphones. Dopamine spiking colour abuse started in glossy magazines and street posters of big fashion and food companies, way before social media existed like post 2000s.

The abuse of human psychology using colours is arguably the worst crime committed in the human history, for which specifically USA is responsible. Never before Edward Bernays did this human psychological abuse exist on Earth, and never before has there been an advertising ultracapitalist machine like USA. (I recommend watching Century of The Self by Adam Curtis.)

The typical answer to OP's post would be social media, but the ingredients of social media are human psychological abuse using dopamine spiking colours, infinite scrolling and Vine-style short content. (Tiktok is credited with polished recommendation algorithm, but Vine originally brought about this disease, later in the form of Snapchat Stories, then Instagram stories and then Tiktok. Tiktok is merely the evolution of FrankenVine.)

If you want to conduct a self experiment, just try this for a day.

You will be shocked how accurate my observations are, and how less people even realise how long this has been going on for. Literally more than a century.

Edit: since some dishonest, malicious and ignorant people have downvoted and gone ahead to claim its stupid and baseless, I will tell them that their existence is a liability, because they defend these neurological and psychological abuses. Absolute wretched people.

The effects of colours having different kinds of psychological effects are well documented. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4383146/

The neurological and psychological abuses employed on digital screens akin to slot machines is also documented, since social media apps and most audio visual content on computers employ same neurological hack techniques as that of slot machines.

https://neurosciencenews.com/visual-sound-slot-machines-15816/

https://www.fastcompany.com/3046149/applying-the-addictive-psychology-of-slot-machines-to-app-design

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432812006456?via%3Dihub

https://www.gatewayfoundation.org/addiction-blog/how-gambling-affects-brain/

Irresistible by Adam Alter is a great book on addiction.

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