sure, of course you can post about that
I posted 5 comments. It took me just over an hour for that. I donāt really like any of the comments.
Comments Log
Here is my log and notes of what I did.
Start: 12:09
First linked I clicked: Who Murdered the Dinosaurs? - by Frank J. Fleming
Elliot Shares Links (2021) - #5 by Elliot
Hmm its paywalled to finish the article. Iāll read what I can and then see.
I canāt tell from the first paragraph whether this is a story or real. removepaywall didnāt work.
Here is where I got up to before paywall:
āHereās what I think.ā Graham shifted in his chair. āI think maybe the dinosaurs didnāt go extinct from natural causes. Maybe they wereā¦ murdered.ā
Iām not sure what to think about this. Itās like a fan fiction or parody of CSI (maybe from the TV show? Idk never seen it) investigating the dinosaurs. It seemed like a parody. It has some jokes in it I think. I wonder if the rest of the article continues as a story or it has a point?
Elliot Shares Links (2021) - #4 by Elliot
Note that the price for the highest-quality thread, 100 twist, came down most dramatically. Itās possible for humans to spin thread this fine, but itās much more difficult and takes longer. For many uses it was prohibitively expensive. But machines have a much easier time spinning any quality of thread, so the prices came closer to equal.
At one level, this is a cost improvement. But donāt assume that the effect for the buyer of thread is that they will spend less money on the same quality of thread. How the buyer responds to a change in the frontier depends on the cost-quality tradeoff they want to make (in economics terms, their elasticity of quality with respect to cost). In particular, the customer may decide to upgrade to a higher-quality product, now that it has become more affordable.
Right so the customer might decide to not change what they spend on thread but change what quality of thread to buy. They might upgrade and not spend less, basically. Sure.
In other words, what looks like a cost improvement from the supply side, turns into a quality improvement on the demand side
But the reason theyāre interested in the higher quality of steel rails is because itāll cost them less, right? The outlay for steel rails will be greater but they will not need as much maintenance so presumably theyād be cheaper?
But what was the effect of upgrading to steel rails? A greatly decreased need for replacing the track lowered the operating costs of the railroad.
Right yes.
time: 12:43pm Okay this is taking way too long. It should take me 5 mins to comment.
This was interesting. I think the answer to the articleās title question is: both.
Elliot Shares Links (2021) - #11 by Elliot
Yeah itās like they softened the language around evidence and the conclusion. I guess they began to sense that the issue was less clear cut and wanted to not look stupid? They want to tread the line and look like they werenāt wrong about the issue, whatever it turned out to be. Secretly editing past articles I think is really bad and gaslight-y.
I donāt know where the debate ended up about where covid-19 came from but I remember the idea that it mightāve come from a lab was put down a lot and it was claimed to be refuted when I thought it wasnāt. It seemed the idea became more popular with time? People I knew were really touchy about the topic, like a lot of topics during covid. I felt I couldnāt talk about certain issues.
time: 1:02pm
Were they perhaps concerned about the safety of using someone elseās finger pricker or something? Iām assuming itās not a fresh non-sterile pricker each time. Though that sounds weird now I say it.
Whatās a ādrug charge under the schoolā ? Like it goes on your record that you did something bad related to drugs? That seems wrong and misleading.
Elliot Shares Links (2021) - #55 by Elliot
He seems so gross and annoying. Also, wtf was that comment about how women used to be babies around 0:25.
Okay thatās over an hour. And iāve got 5 comments. I spend too long on the first few I think. I wasnāt just trying to find quick ones like I couldāve.
Iām gunna try again and be quicker.
My second round took 80 mins and I made 7 comments.
It makes sense to take longer on longer materials. Try doing it with TikToks only and skip any that are over 4min.
The activity you did is fine as an activity but I think writing more short comments faster would be good for you to try to see if it helps you post more thoughts more easily or identify what might be blocking that.