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by TFNA 1mo ago
In the early days of YouTube when uploads were still few, there were videos (often shock ones) that got views from a substantial slice of the American public. It was as unifying an experience as TV.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Guianans tend to get pissed off if outsiders suggest in any way that they are any different as a French region from l'Hexagone (the French mainland). Your banging on about colonies would not be well received there.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
It's not even just America or Western Europe. As soon as I saw the OP about switching to total veganism, my first thought was about e.g. the Arabian Peninsula where meat is central to every meal, and indeed going without meat is seen a
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Efforts to reform Arabic script made more sense decades ago when illiteracy was high. But once the internet came along, the young people across the Arabic-speaking world who might have once been illiterate, took to literacy very keenly: you
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by TFNA 1mo ago
This is a misrepresentation of Berry's thought. Like many traditional Amish or Mennonite communities, he wasn't at all adverse to mechanized agriculture, he simply believed that technology be used considerately, and that people se
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Proficiency in English in Spain is still rather low, and someone carrying around the original could be challenged to show they actually understand it.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
I have never had any scrolling lag issues on Firefox (in the form of Fennec from F-Droid) on GrapheneOS.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Tech companies are training off the shadow libraries, which have the bulk of English-language human writing in book form from the twentieth century, and that traditionally published stuff with an ISBN usually got a proper editor of some kin
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by TFNA 1mo ago
I have worked in the publishing industry, translation and editing (got out to a more dependable career just in time), and what is astonishing is how even "load-bearing" text is not safe from the cost-cutting pressures. That is, ev
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Only a tiny, tiny amount of authors today is making any significant amount of money off book sales; usually at best, book writing is a funnel to more profitable hustles they are engaged in. And of course, many authors are now deceased. If y
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by TFNA 1mo ago
The 1960s was well after agriculture as a percentage of the population in the US had declined to a small figure, and relatively few suburban or urban dwellers were growing things for their own consumption.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
I think this is the first time on HN when I've been one of those people who didn't adequately look at the linked article before commenting, and boy is my face red.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
It seems uncontroversial to say that young people now, and for the last 25 years, have access to cheaper travel than previous generations. The network of budget airlines in Europe, Asia, and MENA is extensive; I can often find a WizzAir fli
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by TFNA 1mo ago
This bit strikes me as rather stuck in the past and oblivious to 2026: "the internet offers an escape from solitude for those rejected in the real world, allowing weirdos, nerds, and the painfully shy to make social connections in ways
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by TFNA 1mo ago
I interpreted the OP as complaining not that romance took over specifically his subgenre of fantasy, but rather it has taken over bookshops and related venues completely. You can see this on Goodreads, which in decades past saw active commu
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Of course one pays for the actual electronic device, but after that, why buy ebooks? Nearly everything one would want to read is already on the shadow libraries.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Sage was discontinued already some time ago.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Kobo covers are the main way people get that aesthetic oomph.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Talking to people with experience might not contradict the internet opinion. I am active in a subculture with a number of people who have been, some multiple times. People who have seen it in the 1990s or early millennium and then later fee
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Big Tech is nefarious, but not the only force to blame. I think that modern internet use would be inferior to the early millennium regardless, just because people's main interface these days is the smartphone with its small screen and
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Early 2000s in my corner of Eastern Europe (Romania) was a very optimistic time. Higher salaries for locally employed educated people were on the horizon, while there was also the ability to work seasonally abroad and make a good sum that c
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by TFNA 1mo ago
I can't speak for others, but my own internal monologue is certainly not one-line LinkedIn-speak.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
No one really cares about your individual comms. The goal of legislation like this is to ensure that E2E chat apps are no longer distributed on the app stores, so even if a tiny amount of nerds like us might use them among ourselves, they a
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by TFNA 1mo ago
As a middle-aged person, I can't agree with that. Declining social interaction as one settles into a narrower world of job and family, and less free time for activism and engagement, means that my peers and myself have less clue than w
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Let me give you long-haul bicycle travel as an example: back when there was an active blogging scene, people sharing route tips and bike-build breakdowns could be sure that a decent amount of other people would find it and benefit from it:
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by TFNA 1mo ago
No one argues about whether Socrates really existed. He is attested by multiple writers of the time. The debate is solely about how much the Socrates of Plato's dialogues represents the views of the historical figure.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Many of the subs related to travel and unpopular arts and music historically had almost no political posts. Yet they started to decline years ago, already before Covid, due to increasing image posts and decreasing long-form text.
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by TFNA 1mo ago
Why do you assume a hobby or interest still has a significant presence on the non-algorithmified open web? For travel-related hobbies, for instance, there is no longer any kind of significant open-web scene where people just share stuff to
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by TFNA 1mo ago
You have seriously made contacts on Reddit or HN that have led to meeting people IRL when you visit their regions or they visit yours? Even way back when IRL meetups between users of internet forums were common, Reddit was already famous fo
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by TFNA 1mo ago
That's still not answering my question. Where do you make those "far away IRL friends"? Most commercial platforms today discourage (because it is bad for engagement) users from building close ties with individual other users

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