DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agoDopamine can make it hard to put down our phone or abandon the online shopping cart. Here’s whytheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkDopamine can make it hard to put down our phone or abandon the online shopping cart. Here’s whytheconversation.comDivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoMy takeaway from this comment is that I need to start building in an aversive stimulus like rigging my phone case to deliver a mild electrical shock any time I turn the screen on.
minus-squaresemioticbreakdown [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoi enlisted the help of a little magical gnome that kicks me in the gnards when he sees me overusing my phone
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoOh, nice. Did you go through a recruitment agency or is there some sort of ritual you can use?
minus-squaresemioticbreakdown [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 days agooh no he just showed up one day and started kicking me i dont really understand why but we managed to come to an agreement
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoHe seems surprisingly reasonable despite the penchant for abrupt and unprompted violence
minus-squareisame [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoA gnard-kicking gnome is definitely a Pratchett character.
My takeaway from this comment is that I need to start building in an aversive stimulus like rigging my phone case to deliver a mild electrical shock any time I turn the screen on.
i enlisted the help of a little magical gnome that kicks me in the gnards when he sees me overusing my phone
Oh, nice. Did you go through a recruitment agency or is there some sort of ritual you can use?
oh no he just showed up one day and started kicking me i dont really understand why but we managed to come to an agreement
He seems surprisingly reasonable despite the penchant for abrupt and unprompted violence
A gnard-kicking gnome is definitely a Pratchett character.