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OctopusSandwich

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OctopusSandwich··on Tools for Better Thinking
Do any of these tool actually help people in everyday life?

Self-help is good but sometimes I wonder if people who yap about all these tools all the time even get anything substantial out of it.

OctopusSandwich··on Stop Watching the News (2019)
I prefer reading people's take on the particular news on twitter than reading news.

Group sourced news take is better than the drivel journalists write.

OctopusSandwich··on Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
No matter what Facebook does, journalists (fake news) will criticize them.
OctopusSandwich··on Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules
You can get similar results if you mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

ActivityTweet , generic_activity_highlights , generic_activity_MomentsBreaking , RankedOrganicTweet , suggest_activity , suggest_activity_feed , suggest_activity_Highlights , suggest_activity_tweet , suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag , suggest_pyle_tweet , suggest_ranked_organic_tweet , suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet , suggest_recap , suggest_recycled_tweet , suggest_recycled_tweet_inline , suggest_sc_tweet , suggest_timeline_tweet , suggest_who_to_follow , suggestactivitytweet , suggestpyletweet , suggestrecycledtweet_inline

OctopusSandwich··on The case for national paid maternity leave
Instead of paying more in taxes to fund other people's wives to go on a maternity leave, I'd rather use that money for my wife.
OctopusSandwich··on Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
Scooters are heaven sent.
OctopusSandwich··on Podcasts are my new Wikipedia
If I find a podcast really informative, I get a transcription and then save it to Evernote. It's good to have a reference to go back to.

I use http://podcasttranscribe.com for converting it to text.

OctopusSandwich··on US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home
What Remains of Edith Finch Life is Strange

<3

OctopusSandwich··on Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
Now that Giphy has a rich owner, will hollywood try to sue them for using their intellectual property?
OctopusSandwich··on A first look at Unreal Engine 5
That looks so good! I hope they add few VR related features. I tried running the default VR scene with Unreal 4 and couldn't get it to work.

Unreal looks better than Unity but I found it difficult to get started.