Endless scrolling drains your mental clarity the way blood loss causes faintness and confusion. The speaker compares it to interrogation tactics: both make you vulnerable, less aware, and more likely to reveal things you shouldn't.
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When you're scrolling, you are losing lifeblood. You, like, you're bleeding. When you're scrolling, you're bleeding. And you can only lose a certain amount of blood. Okay. And be conscious and fine about it. Like when. If you give blood, you give a pint of blood, say, you know, you just need to sit down a minute, have a cup of tea, and then you can drive home. No big deal. But if you lose too much, you become faint, your consciousness is changed, and you become vulnerable. And they do that as part of interrogation technique. They'll draw blood to make somebody suggestible and more vulnerable to. I didn't know that. Yeah. You know, like, sleep deprivation is one thing. I'm sure you know that. Blood loss is another one. They'll. They'll take blood like a hospital to make you more suggestible. And you're in and out of things and you just start saying stuff. And of course the interrogator is thinking, oh, this is great, because they're just going to say stuff. It's like we're giving them a truth serum or something. I think scrolling is like that. I think.