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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">A wave of &quot;dopamine sites&quot; are designed to spark the pleasure centers in your lizard brain by simulating shopping and ordering food.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Two developers in India inspired by Park’s site, Purvansh Parmar and Anshul Sharma, created “Food Never Comes,” which simulates food deliveries but provides real recipes for the food you didn’t actually order. Parmar and Sharma told the newspaper that their site had more than 2.7 million views since launching in June.</p>
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<p dir="auto">That actually has value.</p>
<p dir="auto">Stop being a lazy bastard: here's how to make the delicious Indian food yourself</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/comment/4403554</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/comment/4403554</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:22:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:31:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I would say there are disproportionately more people with compulsive eating habits being enabled by delivery apps than people who are starving themselves.</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/26327360</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/26327360</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[embed_me@programming.dev]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:31:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:03:41 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Real life should get good. Jealous much?</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28146450</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28146450</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:03:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:55:33 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">This is how I felt about the whole clicker genre of games. Like all the resource management and no payoff.</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://quokk.au/comment/6237416</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://quokk.au/comment/6237416</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fluidbeef@quokk.au]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:55:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:53:46 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Everything is possible.</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://quokk.au/comment/6237395</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://quokk.au/comment/6237395</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fluidbeef@quokk.au]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:53:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:26:07 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">turning starving into a positive advertisement</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28145305</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28145305</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[emmilime@lemmy.ml]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:26:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:58:53 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">hey south korea hows it going?</p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/615cfa29-9049-44cb-9995-f87eddae728b.png" alt="" class="img-markdown  img-fluid" /></p>
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<p dir="auto">the trend, according to the New York Times, originated in South Korea this spring, when Park Seohyun, a 21-year-old mechanical engineering student in Seoul, created a fake food-delivery site called “Food Never Arrives.” (It’s now an app).</p>
<p dir="auto">Originally intended as a joke, she says, it lets you not only order nonexistent food, but <em>provides you an estimate of the money and calories you saved by skipping on the real thing</em></p>
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<p dir="auto">oh good, wonderful</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28144593</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28144593</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:21:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:13:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">You can do anything at zombocom!</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/28544989</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/28544989</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[sineswiper@discuss.tchncs.de]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:13:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:49:46 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">It ain't the same anymore, like in the good old days <img src="https://citiverse.it/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f494.png?v=3bf51269064" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--broken_heart" style="height:1.4em;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="💔" alt="💔" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26148366</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26148366</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackhammer_joe@lemmy.world]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:49:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:57:16 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Thats cute <img src="https://citiverse.it/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f923.png?v=3bf51269064" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--rolling_on_the_floor_laughing" style="height:1.4em;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="🤣" alt="🤣" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28142849</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28142849</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[mynameisbob@lemmy.ml]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:57:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:52:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">zombocom?</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/29217443</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/29217443</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaybone@lemmy.zip]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:52:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:37:32 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hook me up to it. Hook me up to the chemical machine now</p>
]]></description><link>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28441982</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28441982</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:37:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:24:45 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">This will go swimmingly</p>
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