19 Aug 2026, 07:12 UTC473 views45 reactionsread 29 August 2026 Photo
Social media is ultra-processed information, designed by people to trigger you, not to educate.
Like ultra-processed food, it’s engineered for endless consumption, loaded with “flavor enhancers” — outrage, novelty, status, fear — that make you crave another bite.
You don’t consume it because you’re hungry. You consume it because it was designed to make you hungry.
And just like ultra-processed food, overconsumptio…
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15 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC558 views1 reactionsread 29 August 2026 📖Possible Potentiating Effects of Combined Administration of Alcohol, Caffeine, and Nicotine on In Vivo Dopamine Release in Addiction-Related Circuits Within the CNS of Rats Biomedicines 2024 Nov 13;12(11):2591.
Chronic caffeine exposure potentiates nicotine self-administration in rats Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1999 Mar;142(4):327-33.
Hypothesizing Music Intervention Enhances Brain Functional Connectivity Involving D…
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15 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC524 views13 reactionsread 29 August 2026 The Sum of Pleasure. Walking through the city, I often notice a striking pattern: in sports betting and lottery kiosks, men sit holding a lottery ticket and a betting slip, with a lit cigarette in one hand and a cup of sweet coffee or a glass of alcohol in the other. It’s a perfect real-world example of what I call the sum of pleasure.
🫣This term describes the synergistic effect of combining multiple stimulants—both…
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13 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC504 views7 reactionsread 29 August 2026 Photo
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13 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC481 views10 reactionsread 29 August 2026 How to lose a war. The anti-vaxxer movement in the United States is not simply an internal matter, but also a consequence of a lost information war. This war began in 2014 — in the form of an informational anti-vaccine attack by russian trolls and bots, inflating anti-vaxxer sentiments, undermining trust, and polarizing the discourse.
According to research, these were millions of messages at a high frequency — on av…
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12 Aug 2026, 12:26 UTC460 views10 reactionsread 29 August 2026 7. Be a missionary of your ideas, values, and beliefs. Tell people everywhere what you do and why you do not do certain things, and why they are important to you. Be a mentor, teach, spread, and plant the seeds of these ideas and values. https://belaveshkin.substack.com/p/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no
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12 Aug 2026, 12:26 UTC498 views11 reactionsread 29 August 2026 Criticizing is easy and pleasant, especially when a person is wrong. Angry condemnation, public ridicule, and debunking propaganda, conspiracy theories, incorrect treatment methods, and misconceptions seem important and useful. But is that really so? Real facts and observations suggest the opposite. By ridiculing and criticizing, we spread harmful ideas and memes and make their supporters even more convinced of them.…
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10 Aug 2026, 17:12 UTC750 views46 reactionsread 29 August 2026 🤍 Hugs aren’t the only way to stimulate oxytocin
✓ Eye-to-eye contact
✓ Affectionate touch, massage & holding hands
✓ Warm social interaction
✓ Giving and receiving compliments
✓ Expressing gratitude
✓ Deep personal conversations
✓ Laughing and singing together
✓ Synchronized movement and shared activities
✓ Caring for others
✓ Interacting with babies and children
✓ Playing with dogs
✓ Looking at cute babies, puppies…
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8 Aug 2026, 07:36 UTC699 views20 reactionsread 29 August 2026 Photo
Acceptance therapy.
“Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.”
— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 107
Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.
Author: Hugo Lederer.
Title: Das Schicksal (“Fate”).
Year: 1905.
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8 Aug 2026, 07:27 UTC632 views20 reactionsread 29 August 2026 Photo
Absurdity is a weapon.
When you drag propaganda or lies into your feed “just to laugh at them” or to say, “Look at these idiots,” the idiots are you.
The more absurd the lie, the more deeply it can hook you emotionally — and the more deeply you may remember it.
You become the Trojan horse: spreading the lie yourself and reinforcing it with emotion.
It doesn’t matter whether you laugh at it or hate it. You’re help…
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5 Aug 2026, 12:27 UTC719 views5 reactionsread 29 August 2026 Photo
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5 Aug 2026, 12:27 UTC719 views21 reactionsread 29 August 2026 If you pick up an ordinary lottery ticket, it looks harmless compared to injectable drugs — but it can cause comparable harm. People have long noticed the corrupting influence of gambling: Plato and Aristotle criticized gambling as a vice leading to loss of self-control. In the Sigalovada Sutta, gambling is named as one of the causes of a person's downfall and is viewed as an activity that intensifies greed, attachme…
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