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> How the Most Important Celebrity Magazine of the Last 50 Years Started Endorsing "The Best Air Purifiers of 2024"

The notion of "Most Important Celebrity Magazine" is begging the question so hard that the question turned over its house keys and moved out. People has always been a magazine about things that don't matter whatsoever. Now it's a website about different things that don't matter. It evolved from a waste of paper to a waste of electrons, and I can't think of a single reason we should care.

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Hobbies are hobbies. It is bizarre the ways in which people pretend that certain hobbies are more of a waste than others. If this article was about the downfall of PC Gamer magazine or something similar, I bet the top comment here wouldn't effectively be "good riddance, video games are a waste". I can't help feel that this is in part because of latent misogyny that views hobbies disproportionately enjoyed by women as lesser than those enjoyed by men.

I would straight up state that celebrity news garbage magazines are of less value to society than PC Gamer.

Following celebrity, cough, news, cough, is the precursor to the toxicity of social media. It's not a hobby, it's an inducement of the negative base motivations of humanity; normalisation of negativity.

Disclaimer: my understanding of People magazine is as celebrity gossip. I'm not sure if it was more wholesome earlier in it's life. In fact, celebrity gossip itself may have been somewhat more wholesome back in the days when society overall seemed a bit more polite.

Why, it's an improvement: I, for one, would like to know which air purifiers are the best ones...

Depends on your definition of best.

The most cost and air purity effectiveness is literally just a box fan with a filter meant for an HVAC sealed around the intake end. If you want to be clever you could go further and make a cube of filters and control the fan with controllable power outlet or something.

However if your value lower sound, form factor, or aesthetics, that make things more complex on whether a price overhead is justified.

Some filters will clean the air more quickly, but a filter that needs more “passes” of air through it to clean may still reach the same level of cleanliness when given enough time. Like when you have a quiet fan always running in a room like I do.

right, but what you're actually learning is just which air purifiers have the best affiliate links

I dunno, the UK royal family was a lot more appealing in the 1980s when it had the star power of Princess Di.

In order:

1) A box fan with a HEPA filter taped to it;

2) The ones IKEA sells, or equivalents.

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