Transparently astroturfed thread

IMO it's simply because it gets clicks. People love to see the issues they care about being featured, and this is a issue that is important to a lot of people.

It's hardly just the US media.

It got shared, it got up votes, people are discussing it. The results speak for themselves.

It's because they do. The NYT loathes the average American. They get a hard-on when talking about 'deaths of dispair' in 'flyover countries'. Makes sense considering who owns it.

>disagrees with opinion

>wants it deleted

Why don't you simply downvote or say "I disagree"? Is this the common trait of the NYT reader?

Two popups about donating to a website I’ve never heard of, instant close

Cannot stand the term either, so many problems with it. For one it completely lacks any kind of precision... and the idea of 'consuming content' is just gross and stupid.

Exactly and it's SO obvious. I honestly don't understand how anyone can still read Reddit... these political groups basically run the site now.

Yeah I'm sure Russian bots are basically running r/trains

Exercise helps more than anything I’ve ever found - I don’t mean small amounts I mean exercising till you’re sweating your bits off. Post-exercise you feel ready to CRUSH if you know what I mean :) I feel your pain my friend.

Let's keep quiet then and just allow them to add more ads with no pushback.

I've started taking Linux for gaming more seriously since the Proton devs managed to fix a stuttering issue in Elden Ring. Would so love to completely remove Windows from my life.

OTOH I would have never read an article on Text Rendering if it wasn't for a clickbait title :) - IOW totally justified for the good cause of making people more aware of obscure yet interesting topic they never cared about!

That’s the article title, and the article is over two years old, so I’m not sure it’s an effective data point for the diagnosis.

It's kind of an off-putting title for a good article, to be honest.

I agree. It is an excellent article. Text systems are weird.

There's an entire book about strings, in Swift: https://flight.school/books/strings/