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> This is very obviously not the type of situation and behavior marginalia_nu and then I were commenting about. marginalia_nu said all news.

Your thoughts of this are black and white seemingly. People can doom scroll news and black pill circle jerk on social media. Or they can use them to learn things they can change an…

> I think this idea (and I necessarily don’t believe in it, but let’s give it a fair chance) is more like a few-weeks detox. > Rather than giving up on news entirely, in the long-r…

> As an experiment, completely stop consuming news and social media for a few weeks. The assumption I had not was false.

> Has the knowledge of the issues increased your agency in a meaningful way such that you've taken actions to improve things Yes.

Graeber's test of a bullshit job was it could be eliminated without harm to society. Jobs to make people above feel important was 1 type he identified.

You don't really ever see investment bankers reacting how?

> All the news is just outrage porn and non-stop predictions of impending doom. No. And this shallow dismissal builds the mood you complained about.

Strengths and weaknesses of different models are helpful to know. And the model could be important later for legal reasons.

Many people who complained of cancel culture called banishment or weaker action from 1 community cancel culture. Many more when 2 communities disciplined the same person independen…

Someone who needed work listed a skill in their CV which many employers demand. Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that…

A dead comment said It's previous recipients synced over iCloud. And said how to see this.[1] Vouch it if you can. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158388

> A high-profile clinical trial of drugs that can delay puberty in children questioning their gender can go ahead after the High Court rejected a legal challenge by campaigners. Th…

> No, that is not the purpose of "puberty blockers." The context was gender dysphoria treatment. Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not …

Most developed countries allow minors to make medical decisions from an age or if enough mature. Puberty blockers are reversible generally. Suicide is not. Many people believe adul…

Gender dysphoria is mental by definition.

> I don't consider it gatekeeping, rather prevention of making an irreversible choice while the frontal lobe is still far from knowing even what path it wants for itself for the re…

Most developed countries allow minors to make medical decisions from an age or if enough mature.

They meant trans people should be allowed hormone replacement therapy before legal adulthood seemingly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126491

> This is equally true when you don't intervene. The effects of puberty blockers can be reversed much more than the effects of puberty.

Some people opposed removal of ugly structures because they had other significance does not prove no people opposed construction of ugly structures because they were ugly.

The article required a subscription. And archives did not have it.

> I’ve sat through enough city public hearings to know what the author claims isn’t true. > People don’t care if the building is gorgeous; they will still oppose it simply because …