• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    well that’s very specifically why you’re having a panic attack in a grocery store: we’re evolved to handle occasional clearly defined threats like hungry lions, so when we’re then instead exposed to constant low-level threats that we can’t do shit about, our brains frazzle out.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      8 months ago

      We’re constantly running at threat level: wolf-fight imminent. Its just we don’t know where the wolf we’re supposed to fight is. And it stresses us out

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        8 months ago

        The modern wolves are the corporations responsible for shrinkflation, and causing us all decision fatigue by offering too many different brands with too many different meaningless-but-slightly different options.