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I made a similar change just this year. Dialed back my Reddit usage to a few select subs, quit Instagram, tuned my YouTube recommendations to focus more on my hobbies, and get my news / commentary from NYT + podcasts.

I'm not missing out on anything by being out of the loop on the outrage of the day or meme of the week. I still kill time online but it's less mindless and aligns more with my interests.

Looking back, the mind shift was gradual but quite profound. It feels like I've reclaimed control over what I deem important, and my opinions actually feel like my own rather than being swayed by algorithmic feeds and comments.

The more time I spend detached from the internet hive mind, the more it looks like a zeitgeist of compounded absurdity.

My partner is now in private practice, but started in community mental health coming out of her social work program. Unsurprisingly, for those most in need, like the children with severe mental illnesses and traumatic family histories she worked with, the resources and funding available are woefully inadequate to meet the need. High caseloads, terrible pay, and a model that churns through new grads until they burn out and move on.

As much as she cared about the kids she worked with, private practice has been much better for her own mental health and allowed her to have a decent income. And even then, it seems extremely emotionally taxing to provide 4-6 hours of effective therapy per day.

The MSRP for these things was never competitive, but $15-20k in the used market for a carbon monocoque electric go-kart? Sign me up.

Those column-mounted paddle shifters also span a large radius on both sides, which combined with their quick steering ratio makes them effectively available at all times aside from when you're putting in a lot of steering lock – which is the one scenario you shouldn't be shifting aggressively anyways.

Historically French Touch was interchangeable with French House, dating back to late 90s origins (Daft Punk et. al.).

IMO what Spotify calls New French Touch isn't really a genre unto itself, more just a broad encapsulation of modern electronic music, predominantly from France, that retains some of the original DNA – whether that's the technical aspects, disco-samples, family trees of producers / labels, etc.

Colloquially I still just call it French House, even if that's technically inaccurate. The genre has evolved and been diluted with elements from other genres to the point of being extinct by its original definition, but the vibes live on :)

This is why I love F1. Over 20 people working the pit stop, and the driver hitting his marks perfectly, literally braking at the last possible moment to maximize speed up to the pit lane entry, all for tenths of a second that can be critical to track position.

Say what you want about the action being boring at times, but the symphony required to make it all happen is the iceberg underneath what you see the driver doing in the car.

I've been looking into transparent windshield films to reduce glare for this reason.

I for one love that BMW built the catalytic converters into the exhaust manifolds on my car, meaning that the only CARB-viable route outside of gambling on used units is a $10k replacement.

I was really surprised when the most disappointing feature of my 14 Pro was the camera. The overprocessing is horrendous in low light, and the constant switching between lenses is annoying when taking everyday photos.

It's funny because in contrast to the old perception of Android phones being fiddly and iPhones "just working", Google's camera software has been way more point and shoot since the original Pixel. Sure, it's also hyper-processed, but in my experience it provided a more reliably "good" result across a range of situations.

And whereas Pixel software updates just kept delivering better and better photos on the same hardware, I know with this 14 Pro I'm going to be stuck with this out of the box performance until I upgrade in several years.

End rant.

GP didn't state that it was the sole reason for tipping the election.

Clinton dropping the ball, Comey etc. are events I can live with even if I didn't like the result. But a foreign adversary exploiting network effects to manipulate online discourse and propagate misinformation on a large scale – the influence that had will always be an unsettling "what if" in my mind.

I was enjoying the first few days and went on a campaign to mute as many of these low quality accounts that had been ported in from Instagram as possible.

Then I just got bored, and realized it was just reclaiming the time that I had gained by quitting Instagram in the first place.

Since I was diagnosed with ADHD last year I've been looking for other lenses to understand my own complex outside of a strictly genetic component. Self therapy, although I could probably use an actual therapist as well.

Between developmental theories of ADHD, complex PTSD, and even going back to old foundational texts (Karen Horney's Neurosis and Human Growth from 1950 was great) – I've found a lot of alignment on the theories of childhood abuse and neglect that lead to developmental disorders, in my case ADHD and depression.

As a child you have no basis for understanding what's wrong, or that the pain you feel is unusual. It's been a lot to process, and I'm not sure what to do with it yet, but at the very least it helps alleviate the weight of my rocky adulthood being "all my fault".

That is one hell of a false equivalence after we just saw what came out of the Dominion lawsuit / settlement.

I'd rather a more conservative approach than copy+pasting the vitriol and polarization of Twitter onto a new platform. And it's a smart move to make it friendlier to users who were uninterested in Twitter because of this dominant characteristic.

Of course, the journalists are up in arms, but the relationship between incendiary news / Tweets and its influence on journalistic narratives reported on is a big structural risk. I think of it like separation of prop trading firms and banks, rather than having an unenforced Chinese wall between them.

Threads accounts are linked to Instagram accounts, so the same verification standards should apply. If there's one underrated thing Meta will do better than Twitter here, it's cut down on spam / bots used for astroturfing and algo manipulation.