biancaregulski

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   by biancaregulski 3y ago

   > I am pretty sure that we did not know that we humans much prefer personal attention to personal privacy. Until we invented the technology of social media, we thought we naturally favored privacy over attention, but we were also wrong a
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   by biancaregulski 3y ago

   This fits in nicely with what I've noticed with ads, especially mobile ads. An ad is an ad, and we accept them to some extent, and we usually want to close them as soon as possible. Still, what makes an ad particularly irritating is wh
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   by biancaregulski 3y ago

   I've heard similar things from missionaries who have lived in very remote cultures with witch doctors who will take someone who's extremely sick and feeble to being able to stand perfectly upright after a "faith healing.&quo
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   by biancaregulski 3y ago

   > In September 1890 Maud Berkeley, aged 29 and living on the Isle of Wight, and her sister attempted a similar divination which she recorded in her diary: ‘dropped … hazelnut, into the fire’, which, to her disappointment, ‘chose to “bur