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How to know if you’re addicted

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Re: How to know if you’re addicted

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One of the most common addictions now is cellphone addiction. But especially since the pandemic it's hard to do anything without a cell phone. You need your QR codes everywhere for testing or showing you're tested, show your vaccinations, check in to restaurants, etc.

> You need your QR codes everywhere for testing or showing you're tested, show your vaccinations You can do all of that without a phone.

Except the tests you have to scan a QR to register, get the result by email etc.

Sure it's "possible" but then you have to take a photo of all QRs of all the test centers you might want to use, register for those at home, go there, go home to print the email. Rinse and repeat every day.

So you could do that and waste 3h a day doing it, or you carry a phone.

The registration in restaurants a lot of restaurants don't accept paper registration anymore either.

Re: How to know if you’re addicted

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Not here. It is technically possible to use a printed version, but they're not actually accepted anywhere. No phone means no access.

Odd. Is it because the people who do the access control (think that they) have to follow strict procedures, or why isn't a printout accepted?

There's a lot of fraud with the printed/pdf variants, so they are not accepted anymore. How an app prevents such things, I have no idea.

Re: How to know if you’re addicted

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Were you drinking all day every day? I have a glass or two of bourbon most nights and can do a week break with no sign of withdrawal. Alcohol is definitely very addictive, but you do have to go pretty hard to get withdrawals.

Every hannover hangover is withdrawal, there's just a scale of severity. I was drinking daily. Two to three on a quiet day, regularly scaling up to the point its it's difficult to count. I wasn't he heaviest drinker I knew.

No, a hangover is not a withdrawal. You have your facts wrong.
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