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Fossy@programming.dev to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

Phones are the new cigarettes: why restaurants are discouraging and even banning them

www.theguardian.com

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Phones are the new cigarettes: why restaurants are discouraging and even banning them

www.theguardian.com

Fossy@programming.dev to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 month ago
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Would you hand in your phone at the door in exchange for a free bottle of wine? One restaurateur has tried that – and there are now many other gambits that are encouraging us to connect
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    I would care if he is doing something with sound, like watching tiktok brain rot

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      and the same applies if they’re just talking to themselves, hell people who talk to each other loudly make my eye twitch slightly

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        yeah but swedish culture is publicly antisocial in nature

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      Fair enough, I don’t recall this ever happening to me so I didn’t consider it. Yeah, being loud and obnoxious is also annoying as hell.

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