Dopamine Sites Sell Nothing, and People Cannot Get Enough (Gift Article)

Products and food that do not exist and will never be delivered. And people can’t get enough of it. Just for the dopamine release of buying-not-buying it. How did Amazon not think of it? Zero-day shipping 😆

Everything can always get stupider. Behold, a crap version of Aldous Huxley‘s dystopia, available now: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...

I don't know to feel about living in a timeline where I mutter, "you know, that Jean Baudrillard was maybe onto something" several times a week, but...

Now I’ve heard everything We’ll almost #DopamineSitesSellNothing, and People Cannot Get Enough www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...

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Dopamine Sites Sell Nothing, and People Cannot Get Enough www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w... 😆

It's not oil. Dopamine is the substance that drives this world. Anna Lembke realized this years ago. Where does addiction begin, and where does self-control end? Your reward level is like a gas gauge. Train yourself to check it, and judgment will thank you. But habit always wins out.

Dopamine sites: They do nothing except simulate digital pleasure hits through fake shopping and the like. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...

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Reminds me of descriptions of cinema in the 1930's, where people could vicariously experience wealth through movie stars. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...

Dopamine Sites Sell Nothing, and People Cannot Get Enough www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...

OK. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...

What the hell has happened to the internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/world/asia/dopamine-sites-popularity.html

It is the ANTICIPATION that the brain finds pleasure in. On that theme, money makers?: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...