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I completely agree. They've always felt unwieldy and annoying, emphasizing some bit of text from a few paragraphs ago that I had just read and was no longer related to what I'm rea…

I think so, but for most people it doesn't stop them from using the platforms. And then the criticism doesn't amount to much.

I think I'll try this out, I definitely have a bad habit of opening up multiple tabs of comments at a time. It's pretty much just muscle memory now. And that's a tasteful loading b…

For anyone interested in a detailed explanation of fructose metabolism (and why it's bad for you), I'd highly recommend these two talks by Robert Lustig on the subject. The first o…

> I think that suggested to the Capitol Hill rioters that political violence was no longer out-of-bounds; rather, it was legitimate and necessary. I hadn't thought of that. I could…

> I want to understand why society (including a great many moderates) are only alarmed by illiberalism when it's labeled "fascism" (and conversely why we tolerate illiberalism in t…

This seems to be a fairly common perspective, and I'll try to take it at face value and respond to it in parts. Sorry if I'm late and you got a bunch of other lengthy responses alr…

Thank you for sharing that essay, it was very insightful! I can see a lot of the parallels there. Precarity and "social cooling" are two very similar perspectives on the consequenc…

Honestly I wasn't aware that Google Play Music was still around until I got an email telling me it would discontinued. I've been using YouTube Music since I signed up for YouTube P…

> This is a pretty big assertion that the piece casually drops without backing My understanding was that the results of the author's interviews were the backing for this assertion:…

> I also tend to recommend his university course lectures over his public-directed material; I'm not sure why it seems more moderated, but I'd guess that professional accountabilit…

I admit I may have had the tone of "you shouldn't think of humans on those terms," but I emphasize that the point I wanted to make was precisely that the reductionist economic pers…

I'm glad you bring up this perspective; I feel that reducing these kinds of subjects to some analogy of market forces ends up being really dehumanizing. Especially with things like…

I think this presentation about never talking to the police is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE Pretty much don't say anything, true or otherwise.