KombatWombat

I see people hold the door open for strangers all the time, so it doesn't seem unpopular to me. In fact, I can't remember ever having someone let the door close on me when they know I'm behind them.

Honestly if I'm more than a couple of steps behind them I'd rather catch the door or just open it myself than feel pressed to hurry while they wait for me. I appreciate that they're being considerate to me though.

For others, I'll hold it open if they'll be at the door in a second or two but not if it means standing around or pressuring them to hurry.

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IIRC she said she never specified Hermione's race, which is technically true. But at one point she did physically describe her to be fair skinned.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

It's a kind of natural selection. The most fit pieces of art succeed so much that we see their good traits echo into the future and become the norm. But we iterate on them further and continue to improve until the ancestor would no longer be able to compete with its descendents. Audiences adapt to what was once a trailblazing stroke of genius and it just becomes the standard.

Personally, I've found the trend to be very true. There are very few classics that I like nearly as much as the modern popular pieces that were inspired by them. Music might be the exception.

I think every generation sucks in its own special way

Skyler: If I have to hear one more time that you did this for the family...

Walter White: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And... I was really... I was alive.

It is a gradual descent, but not so much that the viewer can be excused for not picking up on it. He kept going well after the point where he had made enough to take care of his family. He also could have accomplished his goal early by getting help from Gray Matter if he just swallowed his pride. And he was very willing to hurt or kill others as collateral damage, like Gale or Jesse's girlfriend's child.

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Edit: 45 minutes not hours

The croutons are also likely made with dairy.

I recently read a book called The Most Good You Can Do that explored this. It's actually about effective altruism, but Peter Singer has written plenty on veganism too. It talks a lot about the effectiveness of charitable causes and organizations, and it noted that there were two general types of donors.

Most are "warm-glow" donors, who give small amounts casually to a wide variety of causes. They tend to be highly motivated by personal stories, and as you pointed out, describing more victims of an issue will actually make them less likely to donate. They donate based on the sympathy they experience with a victim, but the good feeling a donation gives them depends very little on the amount given.

The second type is focused more on measured outcomes, so communicating the severity of the issue being solved does help convince them to donate. They donate less frequently but tend to give much more when they do. Charity evaluators like GiveWell were created to assist these potential donors in finding the charities that are the most effective at actually solving the target problems for people using a more rational approach.

• You see, the Grinch is a Who who always... Actually, not a Who, he's more of a...
• A what?
• Exactly, honey. And he's a What who doesn't like Christmas.

I had similar feelings. I knew I would miss my better, ad-free apps, but I could recognize it would be unreasonable to expect Reddit to pay for competitor access when it uses ads to support itself. I wouldn't even hold it against them if they removed third party access entirely. But the way they did it was just so slimy.

Lying to developers, then lying to users about their discussions. Then insisting their unviable price was reasonable just so they could claim to not actually be killing them. And during the protests, threatening and replacing mods of subs for literally implementing the rules their communities voted for simply because it hurt their bottom line. They were volunteer workers maintaining the platform for years because they love their communities; until they do something the company doesn't like, then suddenly they were employees to be fired and replaced. It really was the principle of the thing that disgusted me.

The original tweet's claim is false.

TLDR: It referenced an oral interview from a French think tank called The Shift Project. They have since acknowledged it as an error after a fact check from the International Energy Agency. BigThink originally tweeted this in 2019 along with a corresponding article. They have since issued a correction on the article and deleted the tweet. The IEA estimated that it would take around 45 hours of Netflix streaming to generate the carbon emissions of driving 4 miles.