I wish comparisons to tobacco would stop.

I find the general accreted ... stuff I've read on facebook simply confirms my bias about confirmation bias. I unfollow people who get too noisy.

I still think the original Usenet - even after the Eternal September* - to be in all ways superior to anything else online. Then came the binaries that killed it.

*I would think that because that's when I found out about it and you could get one a' them dialup Internet connections boy howdy.