What I found helpful is: Think ahead. What if I could afford it? What does acquiring this actually mean to me? Will it make me happier (however you define it). Be careful what you wished for.
Online comments, even non-political ones, can still get so heated. Etiquette seems to be better followed in the real world than in anonymous comment section.
A number of people are tribal in belief-change, probably a large number. "Normal" (according to norm) people are not. Educated people who have been through Euclid and post do not believe that triangles eat turtles (or any false property) because doing otherwise offends their mates.
The author of that article is tribal: non-tribals, objective people never write 'we' and 'our' in those contexts, as per the title, «...our minds». 'Our brains have glias', yes; 'We pick our nose', no.
Edit: And it is not a matter of quantifiers (some, many). The author of the article wrote: «Nobody wants their worldview torn apart if loneliness is the outcome» - universal quantifier. Following that, that author is a lunatic (or a criminally sloppy writer). No, James Clear, there exist people who do not accept cretinous assertions, absurdities, to be part of any group - they find "loneliness" (in fact, quite relative) preferable to absurd (which, by the way, also has a functional cost). Some people are not beasts.
As a cyclist and DAU I haven’t been a paying user for the past few years. Just subscribed today. This application costs a lot to run and it’s been mostly ads-free unlike Instagram. Pay if you can. Nothing comes free.
