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I think what the poster was getting at is that finding a minimum is a negative way to view human health (what is the minimum amount of food a human needs to survive, what is the minimum I need to brush my teeth so they don't fall out of my head, etc.).

Restructuring society in healthy ways (shorter work weeks, bike lanes, green cities, etc.) will allow us to achieve whatever that minimum would have been (had we measured!) and more!

At least I think that's the distinction.

The only time I prefer to sit is after I have done a good deal of exercise. I don't mean that as a jab of any sort, just a differing perspective from someone who gets much more than a minimum of required exercise.

Why wouldn't it be a part of the education?

I've seen that sentiment shared a couple of times in the past day and little else before. Just something I've noticed...

I find the self loathing is usually well qualified and not at all a performative act. Performative for who exactly?

Thinking any one person is a 'thought leader' is, generally, a dumb thing to think.

You grew up.

Even if not an explicit gift, isn't all OSS implicitly a gift? I'm having trouble understanding the practical difference.

Cultivating is a great word choice. It would fit in nicely in a Brave New World.

Worryingly revisionist to compare 1980s media advertising budgets to what's going on now (even if they were 'high' for the time).

I skimmed the important parts of the paper. This is akin to finding that cigarettes reduce stress. Any smoker/former smoker will tell you this is true (in the immediate sense).

Does that give any weight to the stance that smoking is good for you and society at large? No.

We are right to panic about social media.

Consistency of style in the general sense is what designers wish to avoid. Consistency of browser behaviour and default style, on the other hand, is the grail from which creativity can flourish unbounded on the web.

That's the stench of continuous public cannabis use, which even as a cannabis user, I don't like. Unless you are smoking in your house, the stench does not last.

It's a new market. Out of the gate companies over-promised and overspent (Tweed stores, as mentioned in the article, were way over the top). The market, from my mere consumer perspective, is just fine.

I am incredibly curious but short for time to investigate further. Is the George Smitherman mentioned in this article the very same one listed in all of these interesting stories? Big financial ties to the industry. My conspiracy radar suggests this piece has a motive.

https://torontolife.com/tag/george-smitherman/

That makes sense in some cases, but if you have been an emacs user for 15 years (!) then it is hard to imagine all of your text editiing needs being satisfied moreso by vscode on release. It's a great editor - I use it for webdev mostly, but nothing I have ever used will has come close to org... at least for my brain.

Sure, you're right in that sense, thought I do not agree with the comparison to writing assembly.

The phrase "shifting away" from CSS is what I was addressing my initial comment towards, and I don't believe that using a paradigm on top of CSS would constitute a shift away from CSS... you're still using plenty of CSS rules whether you use styled-components, modules, SCSS, etc.

CSS is not a paradigm. Whatever workflow you have for styling your pages and apps, it's all CSS in the end.

"Post drunk, delete sober" - said no one ever ever ever.

What kind of source of a man's life is a granddaughter?

I am in my mid-thirties with 3 kids. Perhaps someday I'll have a granddaughter. It is unlikely that she will have a full picture of how I conducted my life at any stage. What a strange way to support the debunking of a quote. Also, I think his take is mostly wrong.

Writing and editing are two different worlds. The comparison with drunk/sober works. Write with abandon, let the spirits, daemons, or whatever out onto the page. Then go back, with clear, focused attention and sort that garbage out.

Not to say a glass of the hard stuff won't help the process along.

Sure, I'll admit it was not a well thought out analogy. Regardless, we have the right to complain either way.

Consent or not, we are all governed. There's no opting out of that.

I love George Carlin, I think he's one of the greatest comedians to have ever lived. You can't seriously believe take this as truth though, can you? If you vote you caused the problem? That you cannot argue/complain that who you vote for turns out to be just another politician looking out for number one? By that 'logic' I have no right to complain if I hire someone who turns out to be completely incompetent?

If you are governed by fools or charlatans everyone has the right to speak out, to bitch, whine, complain - voter or not. That's the right we have, and we're fortunate to have it. (Yes, we need better - but apathy changes nothing).

Thank you for this wonderful comment. It really encapsulates my thoughts on the matter but I have been unable to express it so elegantly - even to myself.

Drugs truly are unnecessary. People do themselves a great disservice to believe that through drugs they gain valuable, worthy insight. It's there! You, who took that drug, had that insight inside you. Drugs are not a key to some hidden wealth of wisdom and knowledge.

(I occasionally drink and smoke marijuana, so I am by no means antagonizing against those who do.)

Listen to this wise being. Never try to motivate others into learning something you yourself are passionate about without the use of a good spell checker. Even then, you best make sure the words you use are the right ones!