More like “If we further break what’s half-broken and going haywire, maybe it’ll stop.”

This is how it works for me. The radio plays songs I’m not all that interested in, so it fades into the background and I can listen to it for hours without issue. My own songs are interesting to me, so I actively pay attention to them, but that also means I get brain fatigue from that attention.

I applied for a mortgage a few weeks ago, and ever since I’ve been getting literally 40+ spam calls a day. It’s insane. They all get blocked, so it’s not anything I really have to deal with, but my missed calls list is just a sea of red “likely spam” callers.

They’re trending heavily in their community, but nowhere else. It’s like how a bunch of audiophiles will probably watch a review of some super-expensive set of headphones, but nobody else will be interested at all.

People who watch conspiracy videos tend to watch a lot of conspiracy videos, which the algorithm likes. So if your watch history suggests you might watch a conspiracy video, it’ll suggest them to you so that you’ll hopefully get pulled in and watch a bunch of videos.

I subscribe to a lot of channels, and they usually put out significantly more videos that I don’t want to watch than videos that I do. I’ll usually subscribe to a channel for a specific video in case they make more of that specific kind of video, but I won’t care about their other stuff.

For example, I subscribe to the Game Grumps channel, but I only want to watch them play games that I’ve also played, or that I at least know enough about to follow along with the gameplay without focusing all of my attention on it. If they’re playing a game I’ve never heard of - which they often do - then I don’t care to watch it.

The algorithm does a better job of showing me the videos I actually want to see than the subscription feed does because it takes into account which specific videos I’ve seen and skipped for each of my subscriptions.

I read it as “picnic room” and now I’m compelled to throw a plaid tablecloth over my comforter, grab a wicker basket, and do “lunch in bed.”

I didn’t get the sense that they’re saying China’s the sole reason for pollution - we all understand that it’s an issue globally - that article is just showing an example of how, instead of fixing the problem, the powerhouse countries of the world are doubling down on pollution.

I’m not as techy as the stereotype seems to portray, but otherwise, yeah, I’m a white guy in my 30’s.

Inspiration isn’t the same. It’s more like if I found a bunch of pictures I liked, then traced my favorite parts from each one onto a single piece of paper to make one image made up of lots of small copied pieces of other people’s work.

It’s new, but not original. With the recent influx of AI content that doesn’t seem to be slowing down, I’d say we should make a new designation of GC - generated content.

If all you want to do is sit in front of a screen, you’ll have a hard time finding the motivation to stick with a hobby; you should start by thinking about things you already enjoy, and then figure out how you can turn those into hobbies. I’m not a motivated person at all, so most hobbies I’ve been interested in haven’t panned out, but I love eating good food and hate spending money, so I’m motivated to bake and cook for myself, to the point where those became good hobbies for me. If you can’t think of anything you like, then just try a bunch of things until you find something you really like.

A bread proofing box. Not only has it made my bread making attempts much more consistent, but it’s also great for tempering chocolate, making buttermilk, and more!

I think that achieving space colonization will only happen if we bring this world to the brink of destruction and the 5 people with all the money at that time decide to spend it all to escape. If we do achieve harmony it’ll be after those guys have already left to go destroy another world, and those left behind who survive the millennia of desolation as the world falls apart and puts itself back together again finally get the picture and treat their home with respect. And even then all it’ll take is one self-centered, power-hungry person being born for the exploitation to come back again.

I dunno, man. A species using up all the resources available in its isolated home, only to develop the ability to use those stolen resources to go to other nearby bodies and use up their resources as well… Makes me think of a virus. If that’s how our species survives, I’d rather we didn’t.