samrjack

I used vim for a long time and now use Emacs doom/evil over top for most of my daily work. I’d say the part of the key bindings that I find hard to live without is the modal editing side of it which helps me really think about the macros I use when moving around or editing.

The other thing I really love is the integration with the old ed editor so you can quickly do several really flexible edits with regex and get what you want. I’m sure emac’s built in functionality can do some/most of the stuff but it’s no where near as concise and other editors have no such built in functionality to speak of.

One other hypothesis I’ll throw out there is that part of the problem is that general education is seen as a phase that one goes through and then is done with. If you have stuff you want to study in an academic way, you better cover it while you’re at school. I went to undergrad for 5 years and still never had time for subjects like philosophy as much as I may have enjoyed it. The breath of human ideas is too vast to cover in the time we give for it.

The last two weeks I noticed an onset depression in my life and I think it was because I basically stopped using Reddit since the blackout started and I have no intent to go back. I swear it was an addiction withdrawal.

I’ve been feeling better the past 2 days but I do miss having a place that helps me keep in touch with the parts of the world I cared about.

Do you have specific examples of what you mean by “concentrated on political correctness”? I absolutely agree that they dumbed down their content, but I think that’s more of a misguided push to appeal to a more general audience which just alienates their original core base. I remember seeing stuff like Doomsday Preppers being advertised several years ago which seemed antithetical to the magazines I remember my dad getting when I was a kid. It’s all quite sad…