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Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

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Post by DangitBobby » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC

j45 wrote: post #67

DangitBobby wrote: post #42

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If it's lethal for you don't be one. We aren't really to the point where anyone should be legitimately concerned that veganism will be influencial enough to crowd you out of your preferred diet.

Everyone can do what they want, until what they want is for it to be mainstream without considering it's for everyone.

I'm not sure how healthy veganism or vegetarianism are for your entire lifespan, but our diets could and should use much less meat, like 5% the currently consumed amount of meat or less. Such a diet would suitable to the vast majority of people and I'm not really sympathetic nor receptive to arguments centered on the small minority of people for which such a diet would be dangerous or intractible. As a vegetarian in a southern state I get to deal with a culture that thinks everything needs meat. Fucking bacon in milkshakes. It's a little ironic that I now also get to hear complaints that my tiny minority choice is somehow negatively impacting the carnivors.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

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Post by stasomatic » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

beaker52 wrote: post #48

layer8 wrote: post #25

> It's just to replicate the ritual of ordering food and give you the dopamine that the real process gives you. I’m confused. How does the food-ordering process give you dopamine? It generally just gives me anxiety due to the uncertainties involved, until the food arrives in good condition, which here it won’t.

There’s a thing with dopamine where it’s not actually about receiving the reward, it’s about doing the things that lead to the reward. As weird as it sounds, going through the ordering process is all you need.

It's an absolutely a thing. My closet full of retro consoles, cyber decks, old monitors proves it. Anyone need an Apple Studio (2000's aluminum) for free? I can't stomach throwing it out or selling it for $20.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

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Post by harvey9 » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:54 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #65

harvey9 wrote: post #59

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There is a very different uncertainty with a far shorter loop to remedy any problems. I have never sat in a restaurant thinking that [any food delivery-specific failure mode] will arise.

>with a far shorter loop to remedy any problems. It is the same length. The difference is whether you are waiting at the restaurant or "waiting" in your car driving over.

No, I am not driving over, I am at home waiting for a delivery. If there is a problem with what is delivered there is a much longer remedy loop: restaurant kitchen to their table versus to my home.