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1. parasti · 1790341510 · focus · HN ↗

   > The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the fork

   I'm tired of convincingly presented falsehoods. I hate being on my phone. I also can't stop being on my phone.

   1. pixl97 · 1790341560 · focus · HN ↗

      It's the same group of people that say being overweight is a lack of willpower.

      1. Nux · 1790341848 · focus · HN ↗

         Yeah, re eating, smoking etc it is a question of willpower in most cases. Ay least there's now a pill/injection for it.

         1. duskdozer · 1790342834 · focus · HN ↗

            I doubt it. I've never been overweight in my lifetime. I have never had to put any effort into that. I simply cannot relate at all to the food-related struggles I sometimes read about overweight people having. It would be silly and condescending of me to claim that I simply have more strength of will here than they do. On the other hand, I struggle heavily with some things many/most people do not, and this is often blamed as a personal failure and weakness of mine. So I wonder if it's just that people who don't have any similar struggles think they are just superior beings with superior willpower.

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