iamkroot

I only use a third party app to browse Instagram, which both blocks advertisements and stories. I keep the main app on my phone and only use it to create posts of my own. Whenever I open it I'm amazed at the sheer quantity of nonsense that's hurled at the user. I have no idea how people can put up with it.

> Instagrams doesn't have a traditional share button to drive virality like other major social networks.

And that's a big reason why it's the only social networking app I still have on my phone. Please never change, Instagram!

I don't think anything else that I've seen or read has properly conveyed the scale of the universe the way these images do. They did and still do stagger my imagination.

Yes, this very much so! Getting food provided for me at the office has more personal value than just the strict monetary benefit. Eating food that someone else bought for you just feels better than eating food you bought for yourself.

Try this experiment: pick a friend that you eat out with a lot and set up a system where you each alternate picking up the whole bill. You'll each spend the same amount of money on aggregate, but I am confident each of you will feel better every time you go out.

He wrote a very thoughtful explanation of it on his website.

Have you tried dark reader?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/darkreader/

The American Medical Association, which is a rotten cabal.

Fantastic podcast about them by freakonomics: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nurses-to-the-rescue/

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Just recently I was telling my brother that I cannot ever trust book recommendations from authors, because they never hand out negative reviews.

I understand why they do it, of course, but it saddens me that the people I most want to look to for suggestions are mostly useless.

See, that's exactly how I feel about being up in the early morning! The rest of the world is still asleep and I get it all to myself.

As in, a majority of the people should be earning the minimum wage?

My boss also only has power over me in the context of my job. They have exactly zero power when it comes to all other aspects of my life.

Then don't have any! People get so prickly about discussions about children, like they're scared someone is going to press gang them into parenthood.

It's not free, it's subsidized by the government. An important distinction.

If you could discharge student loans via bankruptcy nobody would get a loan. No financial institution is going to hand out 5 figure loans to a teenager with no credit history, no job, and no marketable skills.

It definitely sounds fun to me. You're engaged in a very game like experience and getting paid for it.

I continue to be surprised at how few people have heard of fbpurity[1], a fantastic browser extension that blocks all Facebook ads and lets you filter out specific types of content (links, memories, etc.). It's dramatically improved my Facebook experience; I now see exactly the type of content that I want to see (updates on friend's lives) and nothing more.

[1] https://www.fbpurity.com/

Have you ever reached into a hot oven and grabbed a sheet of tinfoil with your bare hands? The foil is 350F (or hotter) but you don't feel anything because it's so thin and flimsy. There is not enough mass to hold enough energy to hurt you.

Agree, if the signal is strong enough to reach a cell tower there is no way you could hide it from someone who was looking for it.

How? I don't think there's any way a phone could know if someone has a spectrum analyzer looking at it's antennas, so it wouldn't be able to distinguish between a user enabling airplane mode because they want to vs. someone testing it.

My pet theory-without-evidence is that diets like keto or vegan succeed largely because they force people to radically reconsider every single thing they're eating. When you impose harsh restrictions like "no animal products" you have to pay very close attention to everything you consume, which likely leads to more mindful eating and less passive consumption/overeating.

Why do private investors need protection? Why can't they be held responsible for the foolishness of their actions?

There cannot be any doubt that the world is in a better place because of the presence of antibiotics.

It shocks me how many people get upset when you tell them that you avoid following the latest daily outrage that the news media presents us. A while back I realized that exactly nobody spends time "catching up" on daily news if they are required to unplug for any significant amount of time, so why should I bother to follow it in real time?

I absolutely agree. Every now and then I open up a link that and me too disable my adblocker and if I can't bypass it in <5s I just close the tab and move on.

There is very little on the internet that is completely unique and of interest to me. If you try to put up a barrier to your content I will go somewhere else almost every time.

Yeah this is the only explanation I've ever heard. It's the same reason why you avoid acute angles in the design.

Which is why the "cheap" products are important. Without them many people would not have access to a wide variety of goods.

You can buy stuff that lasts, it just tends to cost a lot more than the mass market products.

Consumers have voted with their wallets and the markets have responded. If consumer behavior changes, the markets will to.

> (if you don't count the medical, legal, or funeral bills if you get caught)

I see this anecdote/joke tossed out every time a gambling cheating story appears, but I don't think I've ever seen evidence that such retributive tactics are used with regularity. Especially by the major casino corporations.

I would never use someone's own website as my sole source of information, that's just begging for trouble. I search out as many different sources as I can find, including voting history, town hall transcripts, interviews, endorsements, etc. etc.

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make. Are you saying nobody can ever know enough to vote responsibly?