I’m taking it that you were making a joke, and a pretty funny one too. Doesn’t deserve to be down voted.

I hear you.

My least favourite thing is how often the first comment on a post is a contrarian “well aksurly…” As if contrianism is engagement.

It hardly makes for a welcoming environment.

The worst thing, the longer I stay here the more often I catch myself doing it too.

Says regime that is cosplaying Nazi Germany.

I can’t imagine my experience wold have been better online. The third year was almost all lab work and practical.

But aside from that, one of the best things about my offline experience was getting to spend time with people from other disciplines and honestly, some 20-odd years later, that has been almost as valuable as my degree in my career as well as my understanding of the world.

Not a serious man, by his own admission.

That’s right, it was the pianist John Lewis who suggested the title because… Well, because he was right.

It is an absolute banger, and it was so innovative.

I just hate the idea that Coleman is seen as being presumptuous when, by all accounts, he was anything but.

Obligatory comment in before someone says, “what a bold move to call your album that”.

Coleman didn’t choose the title and suggested several alternatives, but his label wanted the bombast.

I’m starting with the man in the mirror I’m asking him to change his ways And no message could’ve been any clearer If they wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change

Really cementing his place as a skidmark on the pages of history.

The only part that’s unique to gaming is that gamers are the most toxic community in the internet.

I wish this wasn’t as true as it is.

I don’t think this is a gaming problem.

It is a discourse problem.

People engage in absolutes. They either love a thing or hate a thing. There’s no nuance.

And it must be made to cater for them, there’s no expectation that it will contain choices they don’t approve of.

And this stance, this modern relationship with the world permeates everything, especially forms of media.

You see it in films and books… Fans and stans and folk trying to take it down. There is no nuance or middle ground.

People don’t accept that, perhaps, something isn’t just “not for them”. That’s why you get grown men complaining about the direction of children’s shows they used to watch.

And this is compounded with social media where polarisation, blunt takes and contradiction are the primary drivers of engagement.

Audience error.

That’s fair enough.

I recently started editing video in Resolve, but decades of using Premiere means my muscle memory is heavily biased.

I suspect that might be the same for you.

In what ways do you find it more convenient?

Yep. Cool. There’s a place for them, certainly.

Still don’t think that’s reading though.

I say unpopular because those that do think audiobook are “books” tend to be very, very vocal about how wrong I am when I express that opinion… As if I’m somehow undermining their enjoyment or the legitimacy of their consumption.

The 52% on my side are just sat quietly reading books and minding their own business.

I think you make some interesting points… Content is important.

Although I think there’s such a desperation to get people into the reading habit that anything is considered good enough.

Remember the Harry Potter book when they first came out. I seem to remember a lot of chat about how those books were low effort, but that they encouraged a lot of life-long readers.

I know that here, in the UK, our education system tends to make people resent reading. Furthermore it instills some awful habits… Like feeling you have to finish a book even if you aren’t enjoying it (which usually means you stop reading altogether).

Anyway. That’s a long way of saying I think you are right.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but listening to audio books isn’t reading.

It is a different sensory experience. It uses different parts of the brain and imagination too.

It is far closer to listening to a radio play.

I’m not saying it is any worse or better, just different.

I’m not sure that conflating the two is useful, particularly when talking about reading habits.

Prompt to hallucinating?

Do you mean “Prone”?

That is the sort of mistake an Llm would make.

Thanks, that guy.

That’s really not one conflict. Conflating them was what the US regime at the time tried to do to whitewash their decisions.

Also, at least you do know people who were completely cool when everyone just pulled out of Afghanistan leaving the folk that worked with them to suffer the reprisals of the Taliban, so ask them if it was worth it.