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If you've never picked up your phone to do one thing and half an hour later found yourself trawling through Instagram, having forgotten what you originally meant to do with your "just a tool", you are in a tiny minority of incredibly focused people.

The majority of us, through no fault of our own, find these 'tools' regularly sucking us into a vortex of distractions and time-wasting. The struggle against cheap dopamine hits is real.

Not dumb at all. It's bad UI.

This reminded me of the fabulously British song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BzjPukTLoY

Speaking as a fellow product designer... Stunning work. What an awesome portfolio!

Please god no...

"Looks to be related to COVID policy"

COVID policy? Isn't that history now?

The number of medical ‘professionals’ who just automatically dismiss possible connections like this is utterly depressing. I’m sure they must hear plenty of crackpot theories, but that’s no excuse for failing to help people who can be helped. I’m glad you managed to find a professional who was willing to take the time to actually consider your suggestions and help you.

Hmmm, it was within a week or two of getting AirPods Pro (and heavily using the noise cancelling mode) that I developed a strange dull ache/pressure throughout my sinuses and upper jaw. Stopped using noise cancelling and it seems to have improved a lot but hasn’t completely gone away.

Some googling suggests noise cancelling tech has negative side-effects for quite a lot of people.

I strongly suspect that many others must be suffering from environment-/diet-/tech-induced ailments but are simply not inquisitive enough to experiment and identify the sources of discomfort.

Yup, I have older relatives who are exactly like this and they ALL have a 24/7 news channel almost constantly playing on TV.

It’s an utterly toxic diet of fear-mongering and negativity that cripples anyone who gets addicted to it.

Muesli isn’t just plain oats.

Muesli is a mixture which contains CEREALS (e.g. oats, wheat, barley) dried FRUIT (e.g. sultanas, raisins, dates) and NUTS (e.g. almonds, hazelnuts).

Here’s an example of a typical British muesli… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jordans-Natural-Muesli-Kg-Pack/dp/B...

And here’s the Wikipedia entry… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muesli

Who on earth cooks over fire with a LEAD pot? Pretty sure that has never been a thing…

A bit tangential, but 'Leicester' is one of those wonderful British place-names that doesn't really follow any English pronunciation rules and you just have to know the right one...

In this case 'Leicester' is pronounced 'Lester'.

Yeah, the content took a HARD turn to the left in the last few years. I don't remember it being anywhere near as political even as recently as 5yrs ago. That suggests either a dramatic change in audience, or some algorithmic change that pushed that content more. I'd love to know what actually happened.

“Topping himself” is definitely a common phrase in the UK too

“'In the sticks' is just a reference to an area where there are lots of twigs, that is, the countryside.”

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/in-the-sticks.html

“when you say cities didn't always have more services than small towns and that life in a city wasn't that bad if you were poor”

Pretty sure they said the exact opposite of that.

“small towns suck because they lack services and big cities suck if you aren't one of the wealthy”

I’m quite gobsmacked at the arrogance and dismissiveness of your responses in this thread. Maybe tone it down a bit and be less defensive?

“we realize we have no magic in our minds”

Surely an AI is a digital replica (and homage) of that magic? Without the magic in our minds we could’ve never created that replica.

To me it’s an acknowledgement of how awesome our own brains are that we want to even replicate them.

Its bugs are gradually being fixed (like the ability to just arrow-key straight out of a comment box and be deposited at the end of the document), but I still wince every time I have to use Notion… for work… every day.

Silly things like opening a Notion page in a background tab doesn’t actually load its page title, which requires a reload to fix.

And the page-nesting (instead of the traditional documents-in-folders approach of something like Google Drive) which makes restructuring files an absolute nightmare.

Maybe I’m just too old and stuck in my ways :)

Strange title as AtlasObscura haven’t actually revealed anything; they’re almost as prudish as the original Victorian discoverers.

Judging by this[1] less prudish source, it doesn’t even seem THAT shocking. There’s a lot of ‘normal’ fresco and only a few pieces of the cheeky stuff…

[1] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-reopens-house-of-v...

This while a certain energy company is reporting its "highest profits in 115 years"[1]. It's sickening to see the brutal efficiency with which the poor are made poorer while the 1% continue to line their pockets.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64489147

You’re getting downvoted because this is just one person’s opinion and yet you’re presenting it as gospel… dogmatically repeating the same post over and over in spite of there clearly being strong support for the opposing POV. More than one opinion can be valid.

“Nursing mothers inhibit their own pregnancy”

It’s an interesting theory, but having my second kid appear 12 months after the first — in spite of the breastfeeding — makes me very sceptical of its reliability.

I’d love to know what made you notice this, and able to identify soy as the problem. Presumably it was more than just memory issues that tipped you off?

"have startups stopped using Invision?"

Speaking as a designer, Invision has never felt like a serious design tool and they've had a constant struggle to find their place in the market. Invision started life as a prototyping tool, and they dabbled with Studio sometime around 2019, but recently they've morphed into more of a collaboration/whiteboarding tool. They're probably more akin to Miro or Jamboard than Figma these days.