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Your morality is not relevant to good journalism.

Regardless, revealing someone's real name is orthogonal to clicks or ad revenue.

This. HN is so entitled - I want the perfect thing, then complain about them trying to be sustainable.

I was at a peaceful rally in Seattle last night, and a bunch of cops kept closing in and started shoving people.

That's a good discussion, but improving the model and sustaining the institution are orthogonal.

I do agree though that a lot of the problems are structural and systemic - that also does not negate the public's negative outlook towards journalism, or the sense of entitlement (read the comments here).

I do agree though that not enough tech people who can afford to don't pay for their news. Why? IDK. How to make them? Well maybe this post will persuade a few to do that.

News is not perfect, just like any other platform or business you use is not perfect.

I think paying for news and not reading all of it are orthogonal. If you don't like curation, RSS is still solid.

Do you ask for per-movie pricing from Netflix?

The different is that in the 90s, there was no clear evidence for pessimism about the future. The same is not true now.

Standard of living for most Americans is actually bad right now - trillions of student loan, no prospect of home ownership, no jobs, extreme income interest, weak authoritian governments,and let me know even start of climate change.

But hey, we have a new iPhone so I guess it's all fine.

False optimism about the future from older generations is nothing new - been happening for years now

No my upstream is Cloudflare. Weirdly, I trust them.

That's awesome and I've tried nextdns and loved it. But - and this is just me - I just don't trust anyone to delete my logs or not log in the first place.

That's why I'll probably not move off of my pihole

Why should I give the benefit of the doubt to a billionaire autocrat who had done objectively more global harm than good?

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For that reason, I mostly get books from not the most legal sources, and then buy a copy from a local bookstore. I either donate that book to a library or give it to a friend as a gift.

I get what I want while supporting a local bookstore and the author.