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It's a reality check for anyone who makes a better goodreads and doesn't understand why it never gains traction. It's on par with complaining about facebook and creating your own b…

Goodreads will always win simply because it's where all the users are. Like reddit or any huge site its usefulness isn't in the presented top layer (recommendations/front page/popu…

OP is suggesting a starting place for people who feel unmoored. It's an anecdote giving him a formula to try on for size. The kind of person who has strong feelings about their sen…

thread is pretty dead at this point but interesting comment thanks for typing it all out

It's psychologically comforting and you don't need to be an expat for it to be realistic. I agree that most people underestimate the value of creating a sustainable low stress life…

I use Axiom to do basic ffmpeg stuff on a regular basis and it's never let me down. https://axiomui.github.io/

I think people underestimate how much of the spirit of the old internet still exists. For example, many twitch channels have an active offline chat that isn't advertised or even sa…

Some people might find this video interesting. Family that fled into the siberian taiga for 70 years to avoid religious persecution. One thing that stands out in my memory is how t…

I'm reading the wiki on them (admittedly not the best or most unbiased source) and I don't really buy that they're white supremacists since among other things their leader is afro-…

Proud boys are literal nazis?

Unfortunately much like the hysteria of "communists" being lost on McCarthyites in the 50s the same is likely for the "far right" on the left now. They're literal Nazis, don'tcha k…

It's really everywhere due to the election. I lurk on a meme video forum that leans conservative and they have started deleting and clamping down on any political content. Some peo…

I don't buy that they're trying to communicate in good faith. I remember very clearly sources like this* in 2016. There was so much hubris and minimizing of Trump that him having a…

That seems outrageously obtuse. The electoral college is fundamental to predicting the US presidential election. The idea that 538 got it right but just didn't factor in the electo…

You're being downvoted but you're right. I'm starting to believe that sites like 538 feed off of the general public not understanding that a 20% chance to win is 1 in 5. Endless in…

I feel like everyone right now should be watching the 1995 movie Safe. It is THE movie about ominous psychosomatic illness. Julianne Moore is amazing in it. https://en.wikipedia.or…

I don't think this whole conversation needs to be so dramatic. I live in NYC and do projects like this chair all the time. I talk to my neighbors and ask them when they wont be hom…

"You're invulnerable to coronavirus" is not a summary of that quote let alone a fair one.

There should be an Internet Forum Law where any sufficiently large forum just becomes about current events and politics. There are already endless places on the internet to talk ab…

What's the point of being one of the useful ten million if you don't have a bigger superfluous population to lord over.

I think the prognostications of fear, uncertainty and doubt will end up wrong. Twenty years ago we had a controversial close election that had to be decided by the supreme court. P…

Honestly the media hating on Rogan isn't more complicated than getting eyeballs and ad revenue. "How X makes you fat" or "Why X is more dangerous than you think" where X is somethi…

Whenever I read about Joe Rogan on HN I wonder how many people have actually listened to one of his podcasts or are just mad/concerned he had X crackpot on his show. You should che…

Isn't the self help section one of the largest in the bookstore? I don't see any great mystery - cults of personality, money, power, genius - aspirational culture. As far as we kno…

It's hard to define "a lot" for 2 reasons: 1. The human population is very large so even the smallest fraction is a sensational number. 2. Any death is a tragedy for someone, not t…