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Seriously though is this app a joke? WinAmp was doing way more "stunning" visualizations than this back in 1998...


For free too! Whatever happened to making cool stuff and sharing it because it was cool?


The author lost me at "some lame speakeasy in some third-tier city".


That's only true in some cases. What about when it's a frivolous civil liability suit, e.g. a slip and fall case. Is there a moral duty to participate in that?


How do you know whether the case is frivolous before it's even been tried?


How is this different from the typical authoritarian appeal for incresed "law and order"?


Isn't the whole point of paying for Netflix/Spotify that you don't get ads?


I was reacting to renting, not owning, being nickeled and dimed by modern corporate America.


I am not the author but I think you can read it as "If you want restaurant food, get it to go". i think it goes without saying that cooking is always an option.


This sounds just like a great Bitcoin opportunity I saw recently in a tweet from Elon!


One item that I would consider adding to this toolkit is Feldenkrais practice. It has a reputation as a gentle and highly personal method for retraining deeply engrained bodily habits. There are practitioners all over the world who can do one-on-one hands on therapy, or you can look for recordings of guided practices.

A quick google search found this lesson [1] and I'm sure there are plenty of others.

[1] https://feldenkraisproject.com/lesson/easing-jaw-neck-should...


Yeah I don't want to be commanded to self-isolate because I was 25 feet away from a stranger in a park...


Oh, I definitely do. That's a huge improvement over the current status quo where I contracted COVID-19 from passing a stranger in a park, have no idea I've done so because I thought that I was doing a good job of self isolation and never even saw that person, and two weeks later I'm wildly ill and have already infected everyone in my household.

More information gives me more tools to protect myself and those I love.


Ah the convenience of a not-too-densely populated country of homogeneous like-minded people....


Yep, those factors probably explain a good part of why the Swedish authorities have decided on these policies and recommendations.

Our State Epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, has been pretty explicit in stating that these policies are not “one size fits all”, other countries will need to set their own policies in accordance with their situation and conditions.

PS. IMHO, the homogeneity of the Swedish society is sometimes a bit overstated. Believe or not but there is still some room left for having your own opinions and lifestyle here ;-) And our society is probably less conformist now than during the postwar/cold war era.

[Edited to add PS and fix spelling error.]


Exactly. Sweden is quite probably the least homogeneous country in northern Europe with huge changes in the population the last 10-15 years.


Yep. And we’ve also grown a bit. Norway/Finland/Denmark have ~5M inhabitants each, while Sweden has twice as many.


And the benefits of others taking action: you'd already get your imported cases conveniently stopped without lifting a finger yourself when everybody else does the dirty job of closing borders. Not a big difference once there is domestic spread, but every bit helps. (Sweden did implement the EU travel restrictions, but apparently that does not stop the "decisive inaction" narrative)


Sweden is not very homogeneous anymore and the first deaths were disproportionately foreign born from one of the worse place to live in Stockholm.


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