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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by housemusicfan on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:13PM (#37068498)
RSS is a great, albeit forgotten, technology. The problem is the social media-obsessed NPCs of the world don't know how to use it. It didn't help that all the major browser vendors removed the technology and you need a standalone client these days.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by howenterprisey on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:33PM (#37069841)
>NPCs

Let's not. Everybody has different amounts of time to spend on forming their opinion about a given topic. If there's a topic you care about, and someone hasn't yet thought about it as much as you, in no way does that imply they're an unthinking automaton and it certainly gives you no grounds to call them one.

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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by mufti_menk on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:44PM (#37069924)
Nah that's matrix thinking. There are wolves and sheep, so you better be a lion.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by housemusicfan on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:10AM (#37072955)
Lighten up, Francis.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by JohnFen on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:24PM (#37078206)
> RSS is a great, albeit forgotten, technology.

It's not that forgotten. RSS feeds are my "front page to the internet", where I get my news, etc. Even HN.

Most sites (at least in the set of the ones I care about) have RSS feeds.

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