Or the guy moving things with “telekinesis.” He covered the table with tissue paper and suddenly the guy’s powers disappeared…

Ah, I see what you’re saying – that’s a great point. It’s designed to be entrancing AND designed to actively try to be more entrancing.

I dunno, I think there’s credence to considering it as a worry.

Like with an addictive substance: yeah, some people are going to be dangerously susceptible to it, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be any protections in place…

Now what the protections would be, I’ve got no clue. But I think a blanket, “They’d fall into psychosis anyway” is a little reductive.

Yes. For example I know in textiles especially, they were small enough to run under & between machines to get things without the factory having to them off. (Surprise surprise, guess how kids got maimed and/or killed…)

I was going to suggest this one!

Yes, that was my first question: what about Photoshop as an image editor? What is a comparable replacement for that?

I don’t know how it stacks up price-wise, but I’d argue Bluebeam is a far superior PDF editing program. It even covers some word processing, Illustrator, and some PowerPoint adjacent things.

That being said, I can’t see it as practical for the average consumer.

Well my argument is that they fall under a different analogy. Something like a car and wheelbarrow? They’re both used for transportation, sure, but they also have two distinct functions that don’t cancel each other out.

I am more trying to argue that Pinterest and Reddit/lemmy are fundamentally different enough that they aren’t really interchangeable.

I personally use both, but, again, for wildly different purposes.

Well…yes, it is a link aggregator, but have you ever used Pinterest? The uses for it vs reddit are wildly different…