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Thanks. It seems a bit more complicated than I’d assumed. I probably should spend more time researching these things. I’d seen a BBC prince on the Christian section of Tyre and ext…

That’s absurd. It is the only game I’ve ever played other than chess. Maybe it’s not popular with FPS gamers, but a lot of people don’t like FPS.

Is Israel firing into Christian neighborhoods? I think I saw something saying they were not. That seems consistent with Israel’s strikes being intended to target Hezbollah specific…

He is well known to be morally troubled— his postings here over the years gave off that vibe for most who paid attention— but even if he were a hypersexual psychopath or something …

You protest too much. If I were a betting man, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

We don’t need to. We already won at least a half dozen times already. We’ll have won a few more times before it’s over in two or three more weeks.

Good to know. Where were the places you worked at?

Even if there was a 29 style crash, assuming you can hold for 20 or so years, less than the length of most home mortgages, you would still come out ahead. Not that it wouldn’t be p…

Yeah, the fact they announced it proves it’s nothing. I saw a picture of him smoking a cigar. We’ve already seen him drinking beer and acting foolish; probably enough to get you ex…

Nope. It’s like thinking you can overthrow the government by littering. It’s just being lame. If you’re going to be lame to other people, don’t gloat about your lameness online. “I…

I’ve watched YouTube daily for nearly 20 years. The majority of the content as well as the algorithm have changed substantially over that period of time. I’m not the only one to no…

I never made that claim, and in fact believe the opposite. I simply disagree that heroin is a drop in replacement as a mental model. The differences between the heroin trade and Yo…

Heroin is a different business model than advertising. Respectfully, you are wrong.

I will never pay a subscription for the current clickbaity slop. I might if the algorithm were better, closer to YouTube of 10 years ago, when it would suggest lectures, artfully d…

Certainly not. People don’t want the slop they push, the anxiety provoking, salacious, clickbaity spam that it has devolved into. Anybody that used YouTube before the last few year…

Everybody seems to want a drawn out conflict. There was going to be a blue wave in the midterms anyway, now Trump can blame the Iran conflict so it’s a win for him. A long drawn ou…

>But does anyone believe for a second that YouTube is responsible for a person's internet / video watching addiction? Yes? Is there an algorithm or not?

Only the good die young.

There are no beds in most bars and nightclubs.

I always do it under the table; something I instinctively do without ever being told to. Now I wonder if I might have picked up on nonverbal cues at some point in the past. If I we…

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Neck planks, reading while laying on your stomach helps, raise your monitor.

I totally get how much more convenient home viewing is, but there’s something about going out and watching something in a group that is special, like we do with opera or theater, s…