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Comment Re:Are we winning yet? (Score 1) 101

Maybe for new hardware, but the Series X came out in 2020. The industry doesn't usually hike the price for existing devices by 20% unless there's some serious upgrade or revision, neither of which is happening here.

If you open your eyes quickly enough you'll still be able to see the leopard before it starts eating your face.

Comment Re:Zuck the ultimate drivelling voyeur (Score 1) 87

The problem would just go away if people stopped consuming.

The heroin metaphor applies here twofold. Just quitting would be the solution, but I wish it could be that simple.

Doom scrolling any social medium is a vicious cycle of wasting hours of one's life trying to find something mentally stimulating, because the thousands of things they just looked at are no longer interesting. It can be depressing, and a depressed person is more likely to continue this in a downward spiral. Just like a drug addiction.

I liked Facebook when I started using it 20 years ago, but I am glad to be divorced of the monster it has become. I wish the rest of my family would consider doing the same. It's just not healthy.

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