and we’ve circled back to the missing third place – libraries as community centers, family friendly pubs and bars, coffee shops that don’t require buying half the menu to just hang out, walkable (and bikable) cities where people can go for an evening stroll without being afraid of being run over …

• “Schneider is a known transphobe and anti-vaxxer”
• “a Canadian medical nonprofit”
• 🤨
• just how many red flags did they ignore?

Steve Wozniak was the tech geek
Steve Jobs was the techbro

for many years now – stopped using them back when they started to ignore +include, -exclude, and "phrases"

bears repeating – “An adblocker is as essential as an antivirus for your computer’s safety.” (and your mental health as well)

I mean … I wish it wasn’t so, but any time we’ve given advertisers any leeway, they have perniciously refused to behave …

one passage I read warned that anyone who got too deep into studying mushrooms very quickly started to sound like they had gone off the deep end …

“because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership”

not like Youtube rewards creators for viewership either (and then lying to the advertisers as well)

that looks familiar … ah yes …

(estimated) 52M membership × 32% denial rate = baseline 16M suspects

additionally, we can trust him to approach it seriously whereas LTT still treats Linux like an in-joke

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

—G.K. Chesterton paraphrased by Neil Gaiman, “The Red Angel”, Tremendous Trifles (1909)

• “younger residents having smaller families and moving elsewhere for jobs”
• “many residents in this deeply Republican town”

gee, I can’t imagine why young people would want to leave such a stagnant regressive environment …