Point here being: slop will continue slopping, and that slop is contingent on theft, nonconsensuality, and exploited labor.

"... people learn best when they are actively engaged with the material they are trying to learn." This shouldn't have to even be explained, and yet.

yes but if one assumes it's Deutsche Bahn even some of the time, it's a horror.

anyone who follows real estate in Southern Ontario knows this very well.

I really like these takeaways (and the #1 is spot on).

this is extremely common (and is a trait shared w mannnnnny podcasters, eeee)

(ps check your dms)

yes, there is a real level of calculation with the public signatories. (Also I think this might be continuing the narrative of, "Seeeeee? Only Hollywood elites care about this!" in some quarters... or, "What are you actually *doing* then, dear celebrities?" in others...)

that is my suspicion also.

it's also the logical end point of a decade-plus of (algorithmically-friendly) false equivalence, which has been depressingly normalized across media (including arts media...)

it's laziness coupled w the confusion (conflation?) of effort & difficulty + reward-based everything for not much of the former (something I am finding depressingly common through successive student cohorts). Thinking, reasoning, assessing, understanding... reading, cooking, washing, fixing... sigh.

:)
(... I have yet to see one who inspires!)

remember to wear your coloured ribbons!

accurate

common in the classical world also. Asking that writers be paid / that sites pay their writers for actual labour is regarded as terrible, anti-culture, disgusting, greedy, etc. Because writing about classical/opera is "sacred" & more "holy" & how DARE you suggest ppl not *want* to do it for free...

I feel like this (so far behind) every time I set foot in Europe. (Some days I definitely want/need a tutor... )