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Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health (news.utdallas.edu)
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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 4 hours ago

Last word: you're the one who brought up murdering criminals - I just suggested you needed to equate them to animals in your head so you could justify caging them like animals.

Criminals commit murder, about 400,000 officially recognized / classified murders per year, much higher than that in reality of course, but 400K/8B is 1/20,000 per year, more like 1/400 lifetime, average, globally, just the official ones not the overlooked ones in war zones or lawless / uninvestigated situations. It's not a problem that can be ignored or written off as insignificant.