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TL;DR: ‘Correlation is not causation’ does not mean ‘correlation tells us nothing about causation.’

Americans' disposable income and time remains at record low: Sofa Poll

The biggest fix gets the fewest words - more sunshine


Well sure, because everybody already knows exactly what "spending at least two hours a day outdoors" means, whereas things like "Orthokeratology" need a bit more explanation since not many people have heard of that before.


That's a very literal reading, but ok - sunshine is the biggest and cheapest fix/antidote and yet it falls to the bottom of the list below treatments, insurance, screening...

Cynically, below things that need Opthalmologists. I am personally grateful to them, and about to go into eye surgery tomorrow, so I'm not actually cynical, but the biggest treatment getting the fewest words is about bias and partiality if anything.


Agreed. My optometrist told my kids that even bringing the iPad outside is beneficial.

I have followed the Up Series for decades, although fewer than six, and I am truly sorrowful at its end. When I was young they felt so far away from me and as I've gotten older I felt as though I have been catching up.


>as I've gotten older:

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>>We get wise too late,

>>and old too soon.

>>–Danish proverb

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Everybody I've ever recommended the "7 Up" series to has thanked me. I rewatch them all, every few years – my first viewing was right before my own 21st birthday (decades ago).


Who isn't Hamas these days?

Nothing Israel says can be trusted.


Well the article is about testimony from Israelis - so you can't trust that as well right? what you mean to say is you trust everything that demonizes Israel and trust nothing that makes it seem more complex and not entirely evil.


Israel and Israelis are not the same thing, one is a country that engages in war crimes, lobbying and propaganda, Israelis are just people. And many of them are at odds with their country.

And some of them take even longer to say than the original words, e.g. WWW


FB's main monorepo was named WWW, and you needed to refer to it every 5 minutes, so everyone pronounced it "dub-dub-dub". A surprisingly hard habit to break once you leave their employment


Facebook.


Old enough to remember Morph and Chas, still have a lovely letter from Tony Hart and some postcards.

The two things I want are a Feathers McGraw wanted poster and mug


Naomi Alderman's The Power in the opposite...


5 seconds?


Obsolete Sony is a lovely-looking website ram-packed with errors and false claims, which means it’s actively worth ignoring.

I chat with Akiraa Tanaka on Twitter a lot. He’s great.

Sony was informally regarded as Japan’s electronic R&D department, regularly coming up with new and cool shit for everyone else to get behind, and while their strategy was annoying a lot of the time (control everything: proprietary connectors and standards) I think that much of their success was enabled by their willingness to cut off and bin whole swathes of their catalogue. Ok, a lot of it was binned later than it should have been (Cassette Walkmans were crap by the late 1990s, post 2000 Discmans/CD Walkmans too) the fact that they did it was a good signal.


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