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672 sats \ 49 comments \ @Coinsreporter 5 Jun AskSN

I sae this question somewhere and the answers as well. Many suggested alcohol and smartphones. However I'm not entirely convinced because I think TV screens should be there on top of every other thing. Maybe I see more peope addicted to TV around me, I'm not sure.

What do you say? What's the most normalized addiction?

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155 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 5 Jun

Alcohol, Social media, television, fast food, sugar to name a few.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Just a few but they are all! But I object that sugar is an addiction. I'm addicted to sweets but not sugar. Haha.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 5 Jun

Haha. Fair enough.

74 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 5 Jun

Sugar. Yeah, its an invisible one for most of us. Its also VERY hard to avoid if you aren't preparing your own food. Even then it can be.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 5 Jun

With the carnivore diet, the sugar addiction goes away. Also it's easier to avoid, because the one rule (avoid plants) also by default avoids all sugars.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 6 Jun

Of the ones you listed, I think TV and fast food are being consumed less — just a personal observation, I don’t have the numbers to back it up.

31 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 5 Jun

Social media and food

142 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Food is essential for living but really most people live to eat, not eat to live. Also I would substitute normalised with natural if I've to say food is an addiction.

For social media I think it more as attraction until you're mature enough to know what is essential. However some people keep on using social media like they did in their youth. Most people leave this social media attraction/addiction maybe in their 40s. I'm not addict to it anymore.

48 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Sorry but I couldn't help asking here.

Did you just zap the above comment twice? One with Sats and one with CCs?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 5 Jun

I don’t think so

49 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Thanks. I just asked because I'm now seeing it often that 1 stacker's zap with sats is divided into Sats and CCs. Maybe there's s bug in there!

47 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Jun

Definitely caffeine. I can’t think of another addiction that people admit to so freely and proudly.

52 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

I can agree. Then I think nicotine is an equal addiction if that doesn't outnumber caffeine snobs. India and China both drink tea essentially. Would you change it to nicotine?

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Jun

Nicotine isn’t normalized in America anymore

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Caffeine isn't normalised in the most populated countries in the world. I'd guess if America can match the population of this part of the world, nicotine would be normalised there too.

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 5 Jun

Tea is a source of caffeine too, but people don't seem to develop the same dependency on it.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Yes indeed. I've been drinking tea ever since but I can still live without it. Its isn't an addiction at all.

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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @LibertasBR 6 Jun

I don’t see caffeine as an addiction, not in the true sense of the word. You can go without coffee and not experience any real withdrawal or harm. It feels more like a social habit. I know some cannabis users like to call their use a ‘social addiction’ to downplay the chemical dependence — I don’t think the term really fits there, but it kind of makes sense when talking about coffee.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Jun

It might be semantics, but people do develop chemical dependence on caffeine and get headaches when they go without it.

27 sats \ 6 replies \ @denlillaapan 5 Jun

coffee, I guess.

...or doomscrolling

18 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Doomscrolling isn't a normalised addiction imo. May be it's a normal thing around you. I can't see people normally doomscrolling around us here.

Tea beats coffee by a big margin.

https://landgeist.com/2023/03/11/coffee-or-tea/

31 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan 5 Jun

guess I'm biased/slanted in the kinds of people I hang out with and the places I'm in! Thanks for updating me

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

I guessed it that's why I tried finding this map and link. Our maye @Undisciplined is also a pro caffeine but may be after seeing this he admits the supremacy of Tea as the king of beverages.

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 5 Jun

I was tea only for a long time. I didn't start drinking coffee regularly until grad school, because we always had it freely available.

Both are quite healthy beverages, but my sense is that tea is a bit better, especially for dental health.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Good to know you were tea only. Tea is definitely better if we only go ny health benefits. Just to make you feel a bit better and surprised my father had never drunk coffee before last year but now he's an addict to it, the only one for coffee in our entire family. Haha.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 5 Jun

Coffee is a good one but I know quite a few people that don't drink coffee. I don't know anyone today that doesn't have a smart phone and most are addicted.

27 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 5 Jun

In Wisconsin.... Alcohol...

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

I remember I read Wisconsin has a lot of breweries? Some say the finest ones?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 5 Jun

There's definitely a lot of them, thats for sure. I was never a beer snob, so I couldn't tell you how good they are compared to everyone else.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @thecommoner 5 Jun

I think a lot of the kids born in Wisconsin are born with alcohol in their veins... to soon? :)

Seriously though - Wisconsinites know how to drink

55 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 5 Jun

Phones. Nothing comes even close. Even 10 years ago a buddy of mine didn't have a cell and he was considered the weirdest person. When you go anywhere people on in their phones. Its just now being discussed as an issue.

In the past I would have agreed with on TV though. I think social media has killed traditional TV though. Its been replaced by on-demand shows but people don't get quick hits of TV shows.

34 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Indeed! By your comment I'm suddenly reminded of Delhi Metro. One day I was just going to my sister by it and I realised that all people in the coach were just busy with something in their phones. Curiously, I started looking for someone who wasn't using his phone and for my 15 minutes of travel I couldn't find a single who wasn't using it. I was just shocked.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 5 Jun

I do that sometimes too. I just look around in a public place, and WOW - every single soul is on their phonts.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @thecommoner 5 Jun

or clothes....most don't even think about clothing....but we don't really need it....when I look at all the other animals on the planet they simply just go about their business naked...

I sometimes think there should be laws about all the naked rabbits or ticks....but hey...I am not the clothing police :)

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @BallLightning 5 Jun

Do you live near the equator?

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Indeed. Clothes are just the most unnecessary thing humans have ever created.

But they say Clothes tell us that were different, we're humans. But inside remain the same. Our spirits, our wishes, our natural actions all are same. Only clothes make us humans else we're a monkey, may be a baboon!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @thecommoner 5 Jun

I would have to say money....or specifically a medium that allows humans to exchange value between other humans...preferably in a secure-immutable manner that all other humans can verify :)

I mean in a first principles kind of manner

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 5 Jun

Junk foods
Online betting

And of course

Beers

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Jun

Online betting

I think it's kinda job for some. Yea job can be an addiction too.

I like beer to say instead of alcohol. It just makes me feel like more civilized. Haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 7 Jun

One of the best saying ive heard is sports are the new God every Sunday go into any restaurant or bar during the NFL season all starring...see alot say alcohol which is same for me also just systematic programming...crazy to see alot move the same way heard like mentality...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RideandSmile 6 Jun

Meditation

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @doubleplusgood23 6 Jun

I’d say caffeine (coffee specifically) or pornography.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SevenOfNine 6 Jun

Money

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 5 Jun

For me, the most normalized addiction has been drugs, both pharmaceutical and illegal. I'm talking about marijuana, powdered drugs, pills, alcohol is also a drug that has already been normalized and well, both phones and televisions are making people stupid and turning society into addicts to all kinds of things.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 5 Jun

Food

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 5 Jun

Coffee

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 5 Jun

Carbohydrates. (And I don't mean sugar only.)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ville 5 Jun

Caffeine (energy drinks, coffee, tea), Pornography, Social media,... But one has to look for the deeper reason for suffering, not just these symptoms. Many of these things tend to be related to something bigger, related to craving and aversion. One learns this from meditation, through silent observing of thought-behaviour, mind-matter patterns. So it is not that these things are inherently bad, as one can consume these things in a very thoughtful, limited, conscious manner, like once a month or year or whatever. But they are often related to emotions that one seeks to have or not have, such as getting rid of loneliness, wanting to feel energised, wanting to feel important, joyful, and so on. But only through silence can one see this.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Savage 5 Jun

How can an addiction even be normalised?