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Anon hates smartphones (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

A lot of those are problems caused by phones regardless of whether one uses one themselves.

But for the personal ones, there are self aware addicts of all kinds. Smokers know cigarettes are killing them, complain about them, sometimes even hate them but can't stop.

Edit: pair o words

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's a fair and well measured response. It begs the question of what we can do as individuals, and when it comes to smart phones I don't think there's much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thanks, I basically agree with you.

Like most of the tragic collective action problems (phones, climate change, sweatshops etc) I'm just trying to moderate as best I can for my own soul/health and try not to be too sad about it.