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It's against the HN guidelines to comment on whether someone read an article, but I find it interesting that nobody has yet commented on section 3 of the articl
by lapcat 3y ago
It's against the HN guidelines to comment on whether someone read an article, but I find it interesting that nobody has yet commented on section 3 of the article, which, um, stands out, calls attention to itself. The elephant in the room, as it were.
- JimtheCoder 3y ago"That night, you deadlift your body weight. You sneak a photo of yourself in the mirror and email it to yourself with the subject heading “You Are A Warrior”." I can see why she left him...
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- LordShredda 3y agoRead the sentence after that?
- imtringued 3y agoShe has clairvoyance?!?
- sublinear 3y ago> I can see why she left him... I agree. It doesn't matter that it's his regretful private thoughts. I'm not a therapist, but that email is an artifact of a bigger mental health issue that is expressed in other ways. Narcissism? At least that!
- rmwaite 3y agoThis is uncharitable and I urge anyone thinking this way to consider if sometimes it’s okay to champion oneself /especially/ when done to escape feelings of self doubt. If someone were like this all of the time? Sure. But that isn’t what this is about so I find it unfair to treat it as if this is some innate character flaw.
- sublinear 3y ago#3 is the actual article and has almost nothing to do with weight loss... goddamn
- bradley13 3y agoThere wasn't a lot to say. The guy had a bad breakup, and needed to vent. Oh, also, he used the gym as an escape, which is a better choice than many.
- PeterStuer 3y agoWe all failed at #1
- dmje 3y agoTotally. It's a story about love and yet that's not the thing most people are responding to. I notice this a lot. When I wrote a blog post about the Remarkable 2 recently and it ended up on HN, very few of the comments were about my article - instead they were all about other people's thoughts on the Remarkable. This is ok, of course, but it's interesting to me that this is often how it goes on here. I wonder if it's high levels of self-absorption in HN readers or just a more widespread thing online where people respond to headlines rather than in-depth articles.
- toyg 3y agoIt's normal, and it's not even an online thing - it's an actual well-known phenomenon with newspapers. Most people read only headlines, be them online or on paper, and then react to them. They used to react while at a cafe or club, now we do it here.
- frankreyes 3y agoLike the Simpsons episode when Abe goes to learn how to eat an orange. People don't care about the love story just say how to lose weight haha