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Why are you so lazy?
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Why are you so lazy?

Online pseudo-psychopsychology is characteristically simplifying an extremely complicated problem.

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Carl Beijer
Feb 02, 2024
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Though I’ve undoubtedly invited the algorithm to target me with this nonsense, I still can’t help but notice a massive uptick over the past year in ads and social media posts brooding about the problem of lazyness. It’s on TikTok, it’s on Instagram, and it’s all over Twitter. Just a constant firehose of stuff like this:

A lot of this, like the ad on the …

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