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logicNScion What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)

That's fine if it's obvious.

It's not always obvious.

logicNScion What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)

You wouldn't know. That's the issue.

You read a seemingly innocent headline, and move on with your day.

logicNScion What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)

Given how many people shared Onion stories without knowing it's "satire" and the article mentioning "It was always some kind of dry, subtle joke"-

I think The Onion is bad for society.

It spawned numerous knockoff websites that would mislead people "because it's funny!".

If you are scrolling through a website, do you click on every article? Read every detail? And research the root website?

Or do you skim, read mostly headlines and occasionally deep dive?

How many "satire" website headlines do you subconsciously believe?

All for "humor", which is rarely found tbh.

logicNScion When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

"It just works" - Apple Marketing

I remember when I believed it. Then I actually got an iPhone and it killed that idea.

Cool box and fun signup, but it never felt quite intuitive.

logicNScion What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture

>There is a lot more to medicine than just math and science

This is the problem.

logicNScion What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture

Specialization sure, but science is universal.

Unless agriculture is built on trade secrets or art, you can contribute.

This is one of my criticisms of Medical. It's not a science or the barrier to entry would be significantly lower, and as a result cost would be lower.

Degrees are good, but not necessary if you can do math and get experience.

logicNScion OpenDiablo2

I've thrown in the towel on some of my favorite games, anything from Blizzard, Nintendo (Zelda), and obviously EA.

I think it "Clicked" when someone said 'none of the programmers that made Old_Game even work there anymore'

These companies are selling IP, not a sequel. When you buy modern Zelda, you don't get Majora's Mask, you get a 2015 action game skinned with Link.

Blizzard is a corporation that owns the characters and names. However you can play Diablo clones that are significantly better in 2020. You just need to be okay without Cain.

Nolstagia is a hella drug.

logicNScion Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website

Anyone have a link to this?

I want to post this Everytime someone claims Apple is best for security. We need logic to fight marketing.

logicNScion California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k

There was an NYT article saying ventilators only give a 12% additional survival rate. This is the service hospitals provide.

Sure oxygen can be given at a hospital, but if we are overwhelmed, you can easily do oxygen at home.

Anyone have a different understanding?