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Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain

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Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 days ago

A wave of "dopamine sites" are designed to spark the pleasure centers in your lizard brain by simulating shopping and ordering food.

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I would say there are disproportionately more people with compulsive eating habits being enabled by delivery apps than people who are starving themselves.

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