I think so many of us um go to these platforms because we are searching for connection and instead we fall into this broken business model that leaves us lonelier. Uh it leaves us more disconnected than when we hopped on the platform in the first place.

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I fell asleep once to tips on working out in my apartment, you know, during the pandemic, and woke up 45 minutes later with YouTube autoplaying a video of Jordan Peterson decrying wokeness. And IRL, it is pretty unremarkable to go into like a bodybuilding gym or CrossFit box and see thin blue line flags all over the walls.

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If anybody can be like famous generally lowercase F, what is the value anymore of being like capital F? And sometimes these lowercase F famous people can be richer than the capital F famous people.

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