I loved this article. Pretty sure it has html only so not sure why everyone complains.
Amen, brother.
I’ll also point out, in my sandwich-board-wearing way, that the entire mental illness industry is based on a similar dynamic. Rational responses to societal failures are blamed on the individual and treated individually at great cost and, not surprisingly, poor effectiveness.
tell me you’ve never had a good therapist without telling me you’ve never had a good therapist
surely you can see the irony in placing blame back onto the individual with this reply lol
That might be true, but the person you’re replying to is also correct (coming from someone with a great therapist).
My depression is the logical and rational reaction to my perpetually diminishing material circumstances.
I’ve got pills I take to not feel hopeless (and they work, surprisingly), but objectively speaking, it’s not looking good, and I’ve never seen anything get better in my lifetime, and I’m almost 40
Not for lack of trying.
It’s easier to become your own good therapist than to find one.
That fact that this is one of the most grossly over-engineered websites I’ve ever seen really undercuts the point of the article for me.
It’s a fucking blog post. Not everything needs to have animated UI and fancy scrolling and interactive elements. Just let me read, Jesus Christ…
They do offer a plain UI. Leave people to their glitz, maybe it’s what brings them joy.
Your thermostat has opinions now. Your television requires a login. Your car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and reorganized your dashboard while you slept.
Your earbuds won’t play music until they’ve updated their firmware. Your refrigerator wants to be on your Wi-Fi.
a little repetitive but ⅓ of it was fun to read.
⅔ was better not read 🤷
Not a fan of the continuous scroll article. It is putting more onus on me, making me responsible not just for reading words and examining images, but for triggering animations, setting the pacing, and un-distracting myself when I scroll back and forth to rewatch how the screen interprets various inputs because I can’t help myself.
Yes, you have to scroll anyway. But scrolling is more akin to turning a page than giving the “See 'n Say” another whirl. I agree with the authors sentiment but wrapping it in an overly complex delivery mechanism has just a hint of irony.
