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Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 6 hours ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I want this guy to tell me how many hours a day you'd need to be high on heroine in order to be "addicted".

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 1 points 20 minutes ago

16.1 hours. Next question.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 48 points 6 hours ago

Tobacco industry boss: smoking two packs a day is not addiction.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 31 points 6 hours ago

16 hours?!? Fuck… mine are rookie numbers and I know I am addicted…

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 18 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Sorry, a double shift of one activity per day isn't an addiction? If anybody is DOING anything for 16 hours straight, then that's an addiction. Only exception I can think of is sleeping, but that's only in very specific circumstances, and not for a prolonged period of time.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Pfft, that’s just like when I was totally not addicted to WoW, could quit anytime I swear

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Does running auctions while doing other things count? Because, if so, I definitely hit 16+ hours in WoW some days. Semi-automated glyph relisting, undercutting by 1c.

Then again, I hit the gold cap in Wrath, before I quit. So it was totally time well spent.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 15 points 5 hours ago

Only exception I can think of is sleeping

I can only fantasize about 8 hours of sleep let alone 16.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

stops breathing for a third of the day

I'm with you. I just had to pull your leg a little.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

!nottheonion@lemmy.world is this way

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 5 points 4 hours ago

I was going to point to @linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works lol

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

Is he brain damaged? He sounds brain damaged.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Now imagine the quote is about cocaine.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

That's just a warm up! Hold my beer!

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What did you think he was going to say? Lol.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

All of the headlines coming out of the case are silly, do people really expect them to admit fault? Lol, lmao even

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Seriously. If he was going to admit fault, they'd have settled already.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 6 hours ago

So you sleep, Instagram, sleep, Instagram... So glad I got InstaDM

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Þe vacant stare says volumes.

[–] dieICEdie@lemmy.org 0 points 4 hours ago

Why hasn’t anyone shot him?