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> How the Most Important Celebrity Magazine of the Last 50 Years Started Endorsing "The Best Air Purifiers of 2024" The notion of "Most Important Celebrity Mag

> How the Most Important Celebrity Magazine of the Last 50 Years Started Endorsing "The Best Air Purifiers of 2024" The notion of "Most Important Celebrity Magazine" is begging the question so hard that the question turned over its house keys and moved out. People has always been a magazine about things that don't matter whatsoever. Now it's a website about different things that don't matter. It evolved from a waste of paper to a waste of electrons, and I can't think of a single reason we should care.

Koshkin 2y ago
Why, it's an improvement: I, for one, would like to know which air purifiers are the best ones...
- adgjlsfhk1 2y ago
  right, but what you're actually learning is just which air purifiers have the best affiliate links
- PaulHoule 2y ago
  I dunno, the UK royal family was a lot more appealing in the 1980s when it had the star power of Princess Di.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  In order: 1) A box fan with a HEPA filter taped to it; 2) The ones IKEA sells, or equivalents.
- Modified3019 2y ago
  Depends on your definition of best. The most cost and air purity effectiveness is literally just a box fan with a filter meant for an HVAC sealed around the intake end. If you want to be clever you could go further and make a cube of filters and control the fan with controllable power outlet or something. However if your value lower sound, form factor, or aesthetics, that make things more complex on whether a price overhead is justified. Some filters will clean the air more quickly, but a filter that needs more “passes” of air through it to clean may still reach the same level of cleanliness when given enough time. Like when you have a quiet fan always running in a room like I do.
slg 2y ago
Hobbies are hobbies. It is bizarre the ways in which people pretend that certain hobbies are more of a waste than others. If this article was about the downfall of PC Gamer magazine or something similar, I bet the top comment here wouldn't effectively be "good riddance, video games are a waste". I can't help feel that this is in part because of latent misogyny that views hobbies disproportionately enjoyed by women as lesser than those enjoyed by men.
- kstrauser 2y ago
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  - kweingar 2y ago
    Reading HN is caring about what other people do, no?
    - kstrauser 2y ago
      That's an interesting interpretation. I'd be more likely to describe it as engaging in conversation.
      - slg 2y ago
        And you can't engage in conversation about celebrities? You can't learn anything about life, society, your friends, or yourself from reading about and discussing celebrities? It is all a waste, but video games, now that is really doing something.
        kstrauser 2y ago
        No, I don't think you can get meaningful inside from random celebrity news. As I write this, the front page of people.com features "Jessica Alba's Daughters Look All Grown Up as They Rewear Mom's Decade-Old Dresses: 'Throwing It Back'". I don't think there's anything whatsoever self-improving to take from that. If Taylor Swift has something interesting to say about the economics of music production, I'm all ears. That's something I don't have a view into, and she has a reputation for being smart. I bet she could teach us some things about that. I can't talk myself into having an opinion on her relationship with Travis Kelce beyond "good for them, hope they're happy together". Also, no one else is talking about video games. But yes, I'd find someone passionately talking about gaming -- something they participate in -- more interesting than another person talking about what they'd read about some mundane thing that another person had done. Henry Buckle said[0] > “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.” To each their own, but I'm on Hank's side on this. [0]https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/18/great-minds/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/18/great-minds/
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Koshkin 2y ago

Why, it's an improvement: I, for one, would like to know which air purifiers are the best ones...

adgjlsfhk1 2y ago
right, but what you're actually learning is just which air purifiers have the best affiliate links
PaulHoule 2y ago
I dunno, the UK royal family was a lot more appealing in the 1980s when it had the star power of Princess Di.
TeMPOraL 2y ago
In order: 1) A box fan with a HEPA filter taped to it; 2) The ones IKEA sells, or equivalents.
Modified3019 2y ago
Depends on your definition of best. The most cost and air purity effectiveness is literally just a box fan with a filter meant for an HVAC sealed around the intake end. If you want to be clever you could go further and make a cube of filters and control the fan with controllable power outlet or something. However if your value lower sound, form factor, or aesthetics, that make things more complex on whether a price overhead is justified. Some filters will clean the air more quickly, but a filter that needs more “passes” of air through it to clean may still reach the same level of cleanliness when given enough time. Like when you have a quiet fan always running in a room like I do.

slg 2y ago

Hobbies are hobbies. It is bizarre the ways in which people pretend that certain hobbies are more of a waste than others. If this article was about the downfall of PC Gamer magazine or something similar, I bet the top comment here wouldn't effectively be "good riddance, video games are a waste". I can't help feel that this is in part because of latent misogyny that views hobbies disproportionately enjoyed by women as lesser than those enjoyed by men.

kstrauser 2y ago
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- kweingar 2y ago
  Reading HN is caring about what other people do, no?
  - kstrauser 2y ago
    That's an interesting interpretation. I'd be more likely to describe it as engaging in conversation.
    - slg 2y ago
      And you can't engage in conversation about celebrities? You can't learn anything about life, society, your friends, or yourself from reading about and discussing celebrities? It is all a waste, but video games, now that is really doing something.
      - kstrauser 2y ago
        No, I don't think you can get meaningful inside from random celebrity news. As I write this, the front page of people.com features "Jessica Alba's Daughters Look All Grown Up as They Rewear Mom's Decade-Old Dresses: 'Throwing It Back'". I don't think there's anything whatsoever self-improving to take from that. If Taylor Swift has something interesting to say about the economics of music production, I'm all ears. That's something I don't have a view into, and she has a reputation for being smart. I bet she could teach us some things about that. I can't talk myself into having an opinion on her relationship with Travis Kelce beyond "good for them, hope they're happy together". Also, no one else is talking about video games. But yes, I'd find someone passionately talking about gaming -- something they participate in -- more interesting than another person talking about what they'd read about some mundane thing that another person had done. Henry Buckle said[0] > “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.” To each their own, but I'm on Hank's side on this. [0]https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/18/great-minds/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/18/great-minds/

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