If I was walking in a dark alley and Zuckerberg stepped out of the shadows in front of me I would shit my pants.
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Looks like a blue loaf of bread.
Zuckerbread, for all your nutritional needs*
*does not contain any nutritional value.
zucker means sugar in german, so there's technically some nutrients there, even if we already eat way too much of it
And berg means mountain, so there's definitely way too much!
The Big Rock Candy Mountain!
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains All the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs The farmers' trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of hay...
I came across this song via the opening theme for a deranged and fun little cartoon called "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" (or similar, can't be arsed to go look).
I shit myself when I somehow stumbled onto the much older source one day, having heard it in cartoon form a good hundred times or so prior.
H.R. Giger would be horrified.
New zuckalien just dropped
Nightmares
queen deltarune but we are in hell
I hate meta and Google, but looking at this from a broader scale: "How the fuck are you supposed to punish anything that's designed for entertainment, being too good at entertaining you?" Am I supposed to sue Nintendo because Super Smash Bros Melee was so good me and my friends probably spent like 2000 hours playing it? Or maybe sue the ITTF because table tennis is fun as hell and I want to play it every chance I get.
But for real. How are you supposed to impose a tangible limit on how fun or addictive something is allowed to be? Does every TV show have to end with a total resolution so you aren't overly compelled to view the next episode? Did the first run of king of the hill need to be cancelled for being too great to not watch?
I think there's a tangible difference between entertaining and addicting, with a detriment to the consumer.
If you think about something like slot machines, and gambling addiction, many people are addicted, losing money, and can't stop:
Arguably, addiction is bad and should be regulated (see: cigarettes).
The detriment instead of money (in this particular case) was teens' mental health, and from what I can recall, the algorithm was explicitly predatory and would serve them up advertisements for things when it detected low or turbulent emotional states, encouraging them to keep using the application and feeling shitty about themselves.
Meta was given a slap on the wrist, it's a fine of $300M ($0.3B) on a company sitting on $217.24 billion.
I doubt they'll change their behavior but legal outcomes are about setting precedents.
I'm not saying that it is straightforward or that you don't have a point about the complexity, but something being entertaining and addictive really should not be conflated! You might spend tonnes of time on something because you genuinely enjoy it, but you can also spend tonnes of time on something addictive without enjoying it. Arguing that things are only addictive if they're good is a gross misrepresentation of reality
I disagree. You're addicted to anything you like enough. I know people that go out fishing every single week it's possible. I used to play table tennis in a weekly league and would never get sick of playing it. There was also a stretch of about three years where the only game I'd play if I had a chance to play videogames was league of legends. I had friends that played WoW every single day for years. Another friend will never shut up about hiking. It's all the same. All these are things you genuinely like. All could be viewed as an addiction. They're often one and the same.
I have around $500 worth of sharpening stones and strops for knives and straight razors. I sharpen people's knives for free. I hate seeing a dull knife and gave sharpened knives for over 30 years now.
Am I addicted, or is it a hobby?
Another conflation you seem to be making is habit formation vs addiction. What you're describing in your own life does not sound like an addiction.
Addiction (synonymous with substance use disorder), as defined by the DSM-5, entails compulsive use, craving, and impaired control over drug taking in addition to physical dependence. ... Physical dependence is much more common than addiction. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366%2823%2900230-4/fulltext
Nintendo games didn't have live A/B testing feedback loops that continuously take metrics and adjust to maximize screen time.
No. The feedback loops were much slower. Super Smash bros: get feedback and try to improve so people want new game even more. Super Smash bros Melee: get feed back and try to improve it so people want to play it even more. Super Smash Bros Brawl: get feedback and try to improve..... You get the point.
Anyhow, are you saying that you've decided that there's a limit on how well entertainment manages to entertain you? Gonna make sure porn is only allowed to use missionary position, next?
Gonna make sure porn is only allowed to use missionary position, next
forgive me, for i have sinned
I imagine it as if lunchables started putting small amounts of nicotine in their food so chilldren get addicted and buy more.
Here comes id verification
100% makes sense with the timing of all this.