What are your “favorite no longer used apps?”

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That is such an oxymoron. There is nothing “real” about such shows. How can it be authentic when you have directors, boom mics, and cameras everywhere outside or in a room with you and the producers tell you to make it exciting, to be expressive, or whatever it is that they tell the participants?

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I never said it wasn’t. :slightly_smiling_face: I enjoy wholesome fun for the sake of fun. Last week’s Georgia-Alabama game was fun! :slightly_smiling_face: I was merely taking issue with a blanket statement, “If one finds pleasure in such activities is that not profitable?” On reflection, I probably read too much into it. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Indeed. Sometimes the vilification is unjustified. Sometimes the normalization is a normalization down, not up. “Normative” says nothing about the merits of an activity. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yes, but often the vilification is an overreaction.

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Absolutely, I agree completely, especially when I’m vilified. :rofl:

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As was yesterday’s Braves - Mets game (the first one, the second was meh). Is not the impact on one’s mental well being “profitable” from such activities?

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Of course, I did not intend to imply otherwise. :slightly_smiling_face: The point I attempted to make, perhaps poorly, was that pleasure, in and of itself, is not always profitable. People derive pleasure from all sorts of activities that are ultimately destructive to themselves and too often, others. Clearly, and thankfully, there are many pleasures that are very profitable for one’s health and mental state.

Somehow, we’ve moved off topic. :grinning:

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Yes, we have.

But any activity, in and of itself, is not always profitable.

Too often things are painted with much too broad a brush. Social media is not one monolithic thing. There is nuance lost when it is treated as such.

Ok, back to our regularly scheduled thread …

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I cannot recall ever watching reality TV, but one time. I was in a hotel room in a new city and when I turned on the TV “Survivor” season 1, episode 1, was just starting.

Fifteen minutes later I rented a movie

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Indeed. I don’t wish to be unfair, but much of the entertainment offered in the form of “reality TV” is moronic and sprinkled with a heavy dose of faux drama. But, we digress. :slightly_smiling_face:

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nvUltra is its spiritual successor, but it’s been in beta for years.

In the meantime, the quick capture window in Drafts (hit ⌘⇧2 from anywhere in the system) might take some of the sting out of the loss.

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