I find these comments very illustrative when taken together- they nicely show how different explanations sound spot on until you read the next one. Inexplicable is one of the great words in the English language
As a potter, when I open my gas fired kiln, I hope for one piece I really love. That’s enough. I think success is in the moment of experience. Maybe an effective passage in one of my novels.
Just a diet of the small things. Above and beyond that, we lose control over what’s good, great, bad, or important. We don’t see the true consequences of most of what we do.
Agreed, it gives the impression he had nothing to say. Probably a wrong impression. Shining a light too brightly is often the same as turning off the lights
Yes, I’ve never seen a more sociopathic company than Meta. They are so true to the cliched ethos of “you are the product.” Sickens me that society has facilitated the rise of such banality of evil
> Sickens me that society has facilitated the rise of such banality of evil
American society. Those are uniquely products of the US, exported everywhere, and rightfully starting to get push back. Unfortunately later than what it should’ve happened.
The same could be said of people, revealing the emptiness of this idea. Knowing the process at a mechanism level says nothing about the outcome. Some people output German, some English. It’s sub-mechanisms are plastic and emergent
Maybe Goodreads is just what it should be, a place to quarantine all the nonsense concerning books. Amazon polices reviews heavily, such that a reviewer found to be in some way paid can cause their reviews to be removed from earlier, and sometimes authors see many reviews removed from their books. This is with books, not other Amazon products
One thing that also happens with reviews on Amazon, though, is that you get one star reviews from people who do nothing but leave one star reviews. Amazon won’t touch them
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