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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • hzl@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    41·
    3 days ago

    Well, it has initial utility with a bad trade-off and the utility dereases as addiction sets in. There’s a point at which smoking a cigarette is reducing stress, but eventually it increases the baseline stress before having a cigarette to the point that it’s a net loss. Eventually it’s not smoking reducing stress from other sources, it’s pushing back against the mountain of stress of addiction.

    If it didn’t initially reduce stress in the first phase, you wouldn’t do it enough to get to addiction.

    Personally, one of the things I found most useful for quitting was the idea that smoking another cigarette would never fix the desire to smoke, only not smoking could do that.

    • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      it has initial utility with a bad trade-off

      It’s not that I disagree, but this is your own personal judgement for your own situation. Not everyone is in your situation and not everyone would agree with your judgement if they were. I’m glad you’ve quit smoking, I’m happy you’re sharing your experience, but generalizing your experiences to “everyone” is dicey.

      I’ve never heard “stress relief” as a reason for smoking. I have heard that it can improve concentration and stave off hunger. And that it is a pleasure, pure and simple. There are people living in situations where those benefits may be more valuable than they might be to you and me. The highest rates of smoking are in the third world, for example.

      • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        As a 20 year smoker who quit, I agree with @hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone . The only thing it gives you is relief from the craving of the addiction that it causes itself. As for how people start, they start when they are kids trying to look cool in front of other kids. No one starts smoking because they enjoy it, it’s disgusting. They start “enjoying” it more the more addicted they get, and it doesn’t take long.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        A lot of smokers mistake relieving withdrawal symptoms as relieving stress. It can create such a strong association that there is an honest belief that it’s why most people start smoking.