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40 days... WTAF has even changed?!?!? #USWARONIRAN #WASTEOFTIME #WASTEOFMONEY #TRUMPLICANSGETRICHER #TRUMPISTAN #TRUMPLICANISM #USBS #USA #UNITEDNATIONS
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40 days... WTAF has even changed?!?!? #USWARONIRAN #WASTEOFTIME #WASTEOFMONEY #TRUMPLICANSGETRICHER #TRUMPISTAN #TRUMPLICANISM #USBS #USA #UNITEDNATIONS
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40 days... WTAF has even changed?!?!? #USWARONIRAN #WASTEOFTIME #WASTEOFMONEY #TRUMPLICANSGETRICHER #TRUMPISTAN #TRUMPLICANISM #USBS #USA #UNITEDNATIONS
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40 days... WTAF has even changed?!?!? #USWARONIRAN #WASTEOFTIME #WASTEOFMONEY #TRUMPLICANSGETRICHER #TRUMPISTAN #TRUMPLICANISM #USBS #USA #UNITEDNATIONS
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40 days... WTAF has even changed?!?!? #USWARONIRAN #WASTEOFTIME #WASTEOFMONEY #TRUMPLICANSGETRICHER #TRUMPISTAN #TRUMPLICANISM #USBS #USA #UNITEDNATIONS
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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #benjaminfranklinquote #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #passageoftime #timemarcheson #life #living #loveoflife #sloth #time #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #benjaminfranklinquote #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #passageoftime #timemarcheson #life #living #loveoflife #sloth #time #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #benjaminfranklinquote #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #passageoftime #timemarcheson #life #living #loveoflife #sloth #time #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #benjaminfranklinquote #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #passageoftime #timemarcheson #life #living #loveoflife #sloth #time #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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👨💻 Oh joy, another "groundbreaking" open source project that's going to revolutionize... absolutely nothing! 🚀 Dive into the world of #GitHub, where you can now waste your time on Anthropic's assignment that was too mediocre to keep private. 🤖
https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome #openSource #mediocrity #innovation #wasteOfTime #techHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81515/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #brevity #mortality #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81515/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #brevity #mortality #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81515/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #brevity #mortality #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81515/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #brevity #mortality #wasteoftime #wastingtime
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🎉 Behold! A groundbreaking compilation of "junk theorems" in #Lean4, because why not waste your time with math that doesn't matter? 😂 Dive into this #GitHub treasure trove and make your brain cells work overtime for zero reward! 🧠💥
https://github.com/James-Hanson/junk-theorems-in-lean #junktheorems #mathhumor #brainwork #wasteoftime #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Behold! A groundbreaking compilation of "junk theorems" in #Lean4, because why not waste your time with math that doesn't matter? 😂 Dive into this #GitHub treasure trove and make your brain cells work overtime for zero reward! 🧠💥
https://github.com/James-Hanson/junk-theorems-in-lean #junktheorems #mathhumor #brainwork #wasteoftime #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Behold! A groundbreaking compilation of "junk theorems" in #Lean4, because why not waste your time with math that doesn't matter? 😂 Dive into this #GitHub treasure trove and make your brain cells work overtime for zero reward! 🧠💥
https://github.com/James-Hanson/junk-theorems-in-lean #junktheorems #mathhumor #brainwork #wasteoftime #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Behold! A groundbreaking compilation of "junk theorems" in #Lean4, because why not waste your time with math that doesn't matter? 😂 Dive into this #GitHub treasure trove and make your brain cells work overtime for zero reward! 🧠💥
https://github.com/James-Hanson/junk-theorems-in-lean #junktheorems #mathhumor #brainwork #wasteoftime #HackerNews #ngated -
Here’s how ChatGPT went from a useful tool to a time-wasting habit – Android Authority
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Before I knew it, ChatGPT went from a useful tool to time-wasting a habit
AI became my new endless doom-scroll without me noticing.
By Andrew Grush, December 21, 2025•
There are plenty of mixed opinions on AI’s potential benefits and harms, but I’ll admit I’ve been somewhat hooked on it from day one. I tend to dive deep into subjects with AI for short bursts that might last hours or on-and-off for a few days, and then drift away for weeks or more when life gets busy with things that are obviously more important. Slowly but surely, though, I realized I was doing less and less when it came to other personal interests. While my AI use never disrupted my real-life obligations or relationships, it was starting to cannibalize my hobbies.
Recently, I started scrolling through my massive ChatGPT log entries. Some were simple entertainment, and others were deep thoughts that frankly got a bit heavy. There were more interactions than I’d ever care to count. That’s when the thought hit me: “Has this become my new doom scroll?” I started wondering how I got to that point, how much time I was wasting, and why it felt so addictive. Eventually, I took a deeper look at my AI usage patterns and then took a step back.
Do you think you’re dependent on or addicted to AI chatbots like ChatGPT?
144 votes
How I got here and why it proved so addictive for me
According to ChatGPT, about 75% of users ask for practical guidance, seek information, or get help with writing and work tasks. This overlaps heavily with what people traditionally use search engines for. As I already mentioned, I love diving deeply into random subjects, so I fall squarely in this camp. That said, I also use AI as a sounding board for my thoughts.
Typically, I put it in a mode like Professional or Efficient and add a few custom instructions so it isn’t overly sycophantic and will push back on my weaker ideas. This can involve history questions, alternate-history scenarios, or philosophical musings. Yes, I know how to party.
AI is fast and doesn’t judge. That’s quite the dopamine hit.
To be clear, I don’t rely on AI for anything truly important. I mostly use it for personal creative work or low-stakes questions I can verify elsewhere. As someone with ADHD who loves to daydream, I also often use it to explore hypothetical rabbit holes where accuracy isn’t the priority.
So how did this turn into an addiction? AI hits several brain-level incentives for me:
- It’s fast: I don’t have to wait for a human reply or dig across multiple sites for basic answers. Yes, fact-checking is still necessary, but it’s hard to deny the convenience.
- No judgment or boredom: My wife, mom, and friends will sometimes let me info-dump about space, philosophy, or whatever else I’m fixated on, but I quickly wear out my welcome. AI doesn’t get bored.
- It’s easy, low effort: My life has been extremely hectic lately. When I finally get a moment to unwind, I want something easy and slow-paced. In the past, that meant TV or books. Lately, it’s meant long conversations with a chatbot.
For me, this feels very similar to the dopamine loop people get from YouTube, TikTok, or doomscrolling social media. A rabbit hole here and there is harmless, whether web-based or AI-based. The problem is when an occasional time-sink becomes a regular habit that eats into everything else.
I kept noticing it was suddenly midnight or later and thinking, “Oh, I meant to play a board game with the kids,” or “watch that show with my wife,” but yet again, time had slipped away. I’m far from alone, either.
Government organizations have already warned that AI companions could represent a new frontier of digital addiction, and many teens are turning to AI chatbots as emotional outlets, offering a kind of pseudo-friendship traditionally reserved for human relationships. While I’ve never lost sight of the fact that the AI talking to me is a non-human algorithm designed to placate me, many people have also had their realities turned upside down by getting too cozy with the AI to the point they feel like it’s their closest friend. The term has been dubbed “AI psychosis” and is very real for those impacted by it.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Here’s how ChatGPT went from a useful tool to a time-wasting habit
Tags: Android Authority, ChatGPT, Critical Review, Goldmine, OpenAI, Time-Wasting Habit, Useful Tool, User Choice, Waste of Time
#AndroidAuthority #ChatGPT #CriticalReview #Goldmine #OpenAI #TimeWastingHabit #UsefulTool #UserChoice #WasteOfTime -
#MissUniverse #owners in #Mexico, #Thailand hit with fraud, trafficking claims
"Miss Universe #beauty #pageant was hit by fresh #scandal days after it ended, with the #Mexican co-owner of te contest accused of #trafficking #drugs & #arms & his #Thai counterpart accused of #fraud. This year's Miss Universe contest concluded last week in Thailand with a win for #MissMexico"
🤦♂️>> This global pageant is no longer a serious #institution & 2025 results questionable. #wasteoftime
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/miss-universe-owners-in-mexico-thailand-hit-with-fraud-trafficking-claims -
#MissUniverse #owners in #Mexico, #Thailand hit with fraud, trafficking claims
"Miss Universe #beauty #pageant was hit by fresh #scandal days after it ended, with the #Mexican co-owner of te contest accused of #trafficking #drugs & #arms & his #Thai counterpart accused of #fraud. This year's Miss Universe contest concluded last week in Thailand with a win for #MissMexico"
🤦♂️>> This global pageant is no longer a serious #institution & 2025 results questionable. #wasteoftime
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/miss-universe-owners-in-mexico-thailand-hit-with-fraud-trafficking-claims -
#MissUniverse #owners in #Mexico, #Thailand hit with fraud, trafficking claims
"Miss Universe #beauty #pageant was hit by fresh #scandal days after it ended, with the #Mexican co-owner of te contest accused of #trafficking #drugs & #arms & his #Thai counterpart accused of #fraud. This year's Miss Universe contest concluded last week in Thailand with a win for #MissMexico"
🤦♂️>> This global pageant is no longer a serious #institution & 2025 results questionable. #wasteoftime
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/miss-universe-owners-in-mexico-thailand-hit-with-fraud-trafficking-claims -
#MissUniverse #owners in #Mexico, #Thailand hit with fraud, trafficking claims
"Miss Universe #beauty #pageant was hit by fresh #scandal days after it ended, with the #Mexican co-owner of te contest accused of #trafficking #drugs & #arms & his #Thai counterpart accused of #fraud. This year's Miss Universe contest concluded last week in Thailand with a win for #MissMexico"
🤦♂️>> This global pageant is no longer a serious #institution & 2025 results questionable. #wasteoftime
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/miss-universe-owners-in-mexico-thailand-hit-with-fraud-trafficking-claims -
#MissUniverse #owners in #Mexico, #Thailand hit with fraud, trafficking claims
"Miss Universe #beauty #pageant was hit by fresh #scandal days after it ended, with the #Mexican co-owner of te contest accused of #trafficking #drugs & #arms & his #Thai counterpart accused of #fraud. This year's Miss Universe contest concluded last week in Thailand with a win for #MissMexico"
🤦♂️>> This global pageant is no longer a serious #institution & 2025 results questionable. #wasteoftime
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/miss-universe-owners-in-mexico-thailand-hit-with-fraud-trafficking-claims -
Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/14…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/14…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/14…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/14…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Indulge not a drowsy Temper in Bed. Why shouldest thou live but half thy Days. In the Grave there will be sleeping enough.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2083 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Indulge not a drowsy Temper in Bed. Why shouldest thou live but half thy Days. In the Grave there will be sleeping enough.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2083 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Indulge not a drowsy Temper in Bed. Why shouldest thou live but half thy Days. In the Grave there will be sleeping enough.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2083 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Indulge not a drowsy Temper in Bed. Why shouldest thou live but half thy Days. In the Grave there will be sleeping enough.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2083 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #action #activity #death #lazing #life #living #rest #sleep #sloth #wasteoftime #wastingtime #work
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The lameassedness of A.I. marketing; it's not just the people on Hacker News who only know the waitlist as a marketing tactic -- it's Microsoft too
#microsoft #marketing #ai #lame #gpt5 #waitlists #wasteoftime #screenshot
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The lameassedness of A.I. marketing; it's not just the people on Hacker News who only know the waitlist as a marketing tactic -- it's Microsoft too
#microsoft #marketing #ai #lame #gpt5 #waitlists #wasteoftime #screenshot
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
[La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas ri.]Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 1, ¶ 80 (1795) [tr. Morley (1887)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/146…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chamfort #laughter #laugh #laughing #losttime, #wasteoftime
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🚀🤔 Ah, the classic "let's pretend to be math geniuses while talking startups" article! Because nothing says "I really need to justify my existence" like trying to turn business advice into a quadratic equation. 📈 Congrats on turning a tweet into a dissertation, clearly an O(n^2) waste of time. 😂
https://rohan.ga/blog/startup_types/ #mathgenius #startupadvice #quadraticequation #wasteoftime #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🤔 Ah, the classic "let's pretend to be math geniuses while talking startups" article! Because nothing says "I really need to justify my existence" like trying to turn business advice into a quadratic equation. 📈 Congrats on turning a tweet into a dissertation, clearly an O(n^2) waste of time. 😂
https://rohan.ga/blog/startup_types/ #mathgenius #startupadvice #quadraticequation #wasteoftime #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🤔 Ah, the classic "let's pretend to be math geniuses while talking startups" article! Because nothing says "I really need to justify my existence" like trying to turn business advice into a quadratic equation. 📈 Congrats on turning a tweet into a dissertation, clearly an O(n^2) waste of time. 😂
https://rohan.ga/blog/startup_types/ #mathgenius #startupadvice #quadraticequation #wasteoftime #humor #HackerNews #ngated
