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You are spot on about Adobe's products not having adequate alternatives. I see a lot of new artists online saying to use Affinity or Gimp, but they do not compare. Even Blender lov…

Photoshop is, unfortunately, the most comfortable art application out there for a lot of art related workflows. The pattern preview mode allows for painting tiling textures easily …

Walmart also announced they are closing 4 locations in downtown Chicago due to profitability issues related to crime. Choosing not to prosecute criminals and releasing those that a…

This has been my experience as well at 32. The commercial real estate firm I work at has a 4 days in the office policy, so we have a fairly robust social atmosphere. You can't desi…

Moderation is such an interesting art. There is moderation like trimming a bonsai tree... the effort is to keep everything healthy and beautiful, but not to avert the nature of the…

I've spent decades exploring online communities (haven't we all?). From forums to 4chan, from Digg to reddit to hacker news. I would say that hacker news has one of the highest qua…

I think covid's lasting impact will be one of vastly growing mistrust in the political and scientific organizations that society looks to for guidance. From the CDC's ever changing…

They're a perfect example of how in America we have these public services that get overloaded and degraded in quality (because they are public), so the rich go and make their own p…

Content, info, arguments, etc. are all propagated online based on their deliciousness. Is it dramatic? Easy to digest? Shocking? Emotionally powerful? Bright and alluring? Sexy or …

The end result of all this fakery is a growing doubt and distrust of the world and the information presented to us. Bots on twitter, corporate reddit moderators pruning discourse, …

That is a beautiful quote, I had never read it. Novelty and ever growing detail of artistic creation have their limits and their downsides. Video games are an excellent example of …

The most valuable thing online in the next few decades will be authenticity. Authenticity is really the new luxury. The beauty of the early internet was its pure, passion driven au…

I disagree that the 1031 exchange laws are detrimental to society. In fact, I would argue that their existence boosts the rate of development and increases housing supply in the US…

Online artists, particularly those gunning for a big twitter following, have to hit it with a specific niche to make it big. I've seen people blow up for drawing really great knigh…

Your summary of this phenomenon resonates with my experiences navigating the internet all these years. I find reddit to be the most perfect example of watching something authentic,…

The cleanest and easiest use case I see for crypto is just optimizing the whole securities issuance and fund management legacy system. For my business in alternative investments if…

A childhood friend of mine developed schizophrenia at 25, so I am surely convinced of the existence of true mental illness. To me a mental illness is defined as a clear defect in t…

A city breaking the law for decades by paying the school district illegally and no one doing anything about it out of fear of getting bad PR for their election campaign... or misha…

There is so much incompetence and political game playing regarding property taxes. I work in commercial real estate development. We negotiated a TIF district in a small midwestern …

Belief dictates reality. This is the fundamental driver behind the common effectiveness of placebo. Which leads to the question, does depression exist as a flaw in the brain? A mal…

This is essentially what Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) theorized and wrote about in his manifesto, that industrialization and its abundance of comforts and options have destroyed h…

nytimes is the worst, next to predatory gym memberships. It took me 45 minutes in a chat with the agent screen to cancel my membership, and they refused to send me any confirmation…

Assuming your position on any subject, especially novel viruses and novel vaccines, is 100% correct and immune to debate or criticism is irrational. When your position is "I'm righ…

Absolutely. It's been incredible watching it happen in slow motion over the last decade. What was once a bastion of free thought and discussion online (after the fall of Digg) has …