Category: real life
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What Pretentious Scotch Reviews Taught Me About Writing
Scotch has been my drink of choice lately. Have you ever read reviews for scotch? Google any random example and you’ll see they’re all pretentious as hell. Here are five egregious “tasting notes” about various drinks, from Whisky Shop Magazine: “Absolutely filthy … like doing a bog swim without a snorkel.” “The nose is a…
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2022 in Review
It feels like the world is getting back to normal in 2022, but with two important caveats. First, it probably shouldn’t feel this way. More people are dying of COVID now than at many times in the past few years when we rightly freaked out. Yet we’ve stopped doing anything about it. The threat of…
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The Upsides of the Death of Privacy
Technology has killed privacy. Even aside from the USA’s latest privacy invasions, most of us are semi-voluntarily leaving a trail of information as we go about our Internet-connected lives. Much is made of the downsides of the death of privacy, but what about the benefits? Like, remember when having an alibi for a crime meant…
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