Loads of examples of people doing stuff that they know makes them miserable in all but the shortest term. It's a decent working definition of addiction. (View Post)

And that's the problem. With hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to let social media companies grow rich enough and powerful enough that they could essentially buy the US government. … (View Post)

Hence the focus on any algorithm more complex than "people you follow, in reverse chronological order". As things stand, big SM companies are causing a lot of social harm by choosing to pro… (View Post)

Quite a lot. There are places that have gone down the "make school lunches civilised" route. One of the usual suspects describes it here https://www.michaela.education/about-us/family-lunch… (View Post)

They should get Molesworth and his school chums in. From St Custard's. (View Post)