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I love vinyl so I built m daughter a wooden vinyl player with wooden discs that carry an embedded nfc so now she can put some vinyl on herself :))

That is such a cheap argument. I think the general “problem” is a bit exaggerated in the media - as a frequent visitor of the Berlin Freibäder I have not experienced any problems myself. However, the violence in my small home town city came mostly from German males with German ancestors. Toxic masculinity (and social injustice) seem to be a major driving the problematic behavior - not immigration. The majority of violence also here in Berlin comes from males. Also, my impression is that is if there is violent behavior coming from males (also in other situations) their background foremost is a rather low social status and not dependent on their passport or their ancestors’ origin. A well educated rich woman is less likely to show violent behavior than the poor uneducated man. I don’t know the difference of this between the German and the “Arab” (which is the group most people here blame rn) male of equal social status but id be very surprise to see a big difference if any significant at all..

Chat has a lower level barrier to participate than a forum post (or even old schooler: a mailing list). Chat is More direct and faster paced, which has its positive and negative effects (engagement vs quality - I’d assume most people put more thought into a forum post or email than a simple chat message) So far I have only seen Reddit/HN style „forums“ to combine these aspects together successfully (although I don’t know if that also happens in slack and the likes)..

Another option might be to filter out important discussions and elevate it on a certain (“BB or mailing list worthy”) level - that seems to be a challenge, that the threading function does not sufficiently solve (also, as users don’t always adher to the technical aspect of replying to a thread).

It will be interesting how LLM/AI might solve some of these issues of organizing the knowledge that is generated in these different formats. That’s a task that so far seems to be too tedious to be done by humans, after all. A wiki generated by AI to certain discussions and topics? Summaries in the chat software to certain keywords/discussions and suggestions on further reading?

My Emacs eye candy 3 years ago

I would argue that some typographic changes (eg right amount of white space, line height etc) might lessen the distraction that you get with visual clotting. It appears here, though, that not everyone perceived it that way.. The foremost reason for use of typography in this case should be readability and accessibility and not pretty (which by itself is not a bad thing either)

My Emacs eye candy 3 years ago

Especially regarding org mode I am always surprised about how most users use so little typography. Using the same settings for writing and coding seems counterintuitive yet most org modes I see in screenshots look pretty code-editorisch to me, and the styling options you mentioned are pretty much the only ones I know (missing Olivietti mode [1]) Most other note taking apps surpass here… [1] https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti

Lovers in a dangerous spacetime You are controlling a spaceship with up to four people, bit with all these weapons, shield and steering you have to swap between these or at least coordinate. Really enjoyed this with 3 other friends but might be even more fun with just 1 or 2 extra players as there should be more running around the spaceship

I even have this problem when just sitting in front of my laptop to look something up - I end up on completely different websites procrastinating a lot . Another behavioral hack was told to me by someone els: write down on a piece of paper what you want to look up/do on the computer before you sit down in front of it and check if you have done it as much as possible.