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Sarah continued to use #AI when she started #college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class & not see other students’ laptops open to #ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be #dependent on the website. She already considered herself #addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said.

We already have many years of evidence of the ways that drugs are destabilising countries’ legal and political institutions, devastating entire communities, and destroying millions of lives. In this story we ask, as with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Read the full story 👉 tcnv.link/Urwrol2

Read the full story by following the #linkinbio

This 2021 article is making the rounds and it reminds me of something I said in a sermon a few weeks back: we never talk about people being #addicted to money. I said that I would love to hear a testimony that goes like “I was so hooked on #wealth that I would do horrible things. I enslaved children, I made people work so hard they couldn’t use a toilet, I corrupted entire nations to feed my habit. But then I met #Jesus and gave it all away. Now I’m free!”

teenvogue.com/story/billionair

Teen Vogue · Billionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s WhyBy Rebekka Ayres

globalnews.ca/news/10712822/fr

Wow, Fraser Health, facilitating the deaths of #addicted people -- for what? Because the BCNDP wants to win an election?

Goes to show how cheap lives are to this godforsaken party. Whether they be disabled, addicted, Indigenous or Palestinian. #BCPoli

Global News · Free harm reduction supplies removed from Fraser Health websiteBy Amy Judd

Looks like there's a new #tobacco it's called #ZYN and you chew on it like a horse 🐴🐎.
youtube.com/shorts/noHA8iRWeDc

As you can see, #sexy girls and #doctors are using it to #quit other stuff. But it's #dangerous and there isn't a product to quit this one yet.

What I would do is I would rub it on my thumb and then become #addicted to #sucking my thumb. It's more reachable than other #suckable parts. Then just dunk my thumb in #jalapenos and fix the problem altogether!