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As with most of the problems facing humanity today, the technology itself is not inherently harmful, but it is extremely dangerous when...

Yeah, the promise of the internet was, in part, "isolated LGBT kids can find each other and find community when their hometown is...

Oh, I do agree that the internet has never been a worse place than it is now, with the centralization, the automation of moderation, the...

I might be romanticising the past here, but I think the internet right now is probably at its worst. From the earliest days it was very...

You're taking shots at people on Bluesky. But you don't use it, don't visit it, and all opinions are formed on your own, without outside...

Social media is certainly bad for people’s mental health. I’m not convinced the pre-social media internet was all that much better...

It really isn’t. It’s an aesthetic that is waning in popularity, because newer audiences find it uncomfortably reminiscent of real-life...

It's all part of the same thing. School systems that have high numbers of school counselors -- the numbers that experts actually...

Exactly. Everyone needs to eat, and doesn't have a lord to provide it, so it's often a choice of choosing to be an adventurer or...

Big fan of this take. This also helps give an explanation to the “Mos Eisely Cantina effect.” No one wants to be an adventurer; it’s...

One of the things I like about the gritty, grimdark world of the Witcher is how the local people fear and dislike Witchers. It keeps...

In the first season the bullies tried to literally murder Mike

like I said, I didn’t care when they called Erica’s character a “rogue” instead of a “thief” in season 4, because it’s a different name...

And you responded with a bunch of completely unrelated rambling, defending against an accusation I never made - namely, that you dislike...

It is! I highly recommend. It's gotten tons of accolades and two sequels for a reason! Well, one sequel and one prequel. And the books...