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If this is the solution, I want my problem back. Don't follow me, I am lost.

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The fake party

Look at the sheer absurdity of it. A man sits in a chair and shouts because some millionaire kicked or threw a ball. Another waits for a multi-billion corporation to tell him what his phone will do next year.

Do people realize it is not real? That it is just business? Simulating missing belonging with a logo on a machine or a t-shirt is a fake party. There is no tribe, just your wallet and attention. You buy the excitement. You pay to feel part of a pack that does not know you exist.

This theater is annoying to observe.

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Web feed without brackets

Feed readers typically just need some basic styling and typography on top of plain text. They don't need to deal with HTML, and they don't need <channel><item>, brackets, version, namespace. Just a person's name and shared thoughts. The whole XML structure is poi...

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Web feed formats

One of the default "auto modes" for writers is the RSS feed. They want to share their writing somehow. Plenty of writers don't own a domain name, but somewhere on their site sits a clunky RSS file in XML format. A horrible-looking file. If you have never seen one and feel li...

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Simple tools are not popular

Simple things, especially in tech, are not popular. Some may be used silently behind the scene, but they are rarely visible or promoted. The reason is simple. It's impossible to create a business around them. You can't create an industry around a plain text file. There are n...

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The last peasant on the internet

I feel like I am the last peasant on the internet. I have been online for two decades. I already opened some websites during that long period. Most of the time, I find the "about" page starts with a position in a work. All those senior managers, product whatever, team someth...

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Nobody talks about smoking a cigarette

Shopping, traveling, health, entertainment, news, weather, games, celebrities, money, food, tech, AI, sports, music, movies, memes, fashion, cars, pets, relationships, dating, fitness, cooking, beauty, home, DIY, education, crypto, politics, travel, vacation, viral challenges, celebrity drama ...

Such nonsense. The internet is full of this crap.

People should smoke more. There is nothing better than a cigarette on my balcony. Cigarette smoke as a filter for all the stupid things people do.

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Constant movement

There is such a phenomenon, people are constantly going somewhere. They pay so much for their houses and apartments, yet nobody is at home. It's probably more common in cities. Roads full of cars, constant movement. They drive, walk, or take a bus. They never arrive. Otherwise, they would not do the same thing the next day.

I have no idea where they are all going, only that they will never reach their destination. And one day their bodies will just fall off.

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Contact forms

Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address.