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There are thousands, tens of thousands who compete for our attention on sites like this one via their hip Substack/Medium blogs. Them’s the breaks.

• twixfel 3y ago
  That doesn't make any sense. The point is not whether or not we should dismiss nonsense, it's that often it's the "stopped reading at X" type comments that are the real nonsense
  • avgcorrection 3y ago
    People don’t have time or won’t make the time. They use heuristics (“nonsense”) to sort out the (in their opinion) chaff. With the deluge of content that is available it is simply their prerogative.
    • twixfel 3y ago
      >People don’t have time or won’t make the time. They use heuristics (“nonsense”) to sort out the (in their opinion) chaff. They have time to make said comments. It's not that they don't have the time, but perhaps that they want their opinion to heard and their implicit supposed authority to be recognised with the minimum amount of effort. >With the deluge of content that is available it is simply their prerogative. It's their prerogative regardless of the amount of content available. That's irrelevant.