Ask HN: Best Sites to Procrastinate I don't use any social media. After reading "Mindf*ck" I decided to quit all of them. Surprisingly if you cut off all facebooks, instagrams and reddits, it turns out the Internet is quite boring place. What are your favourite sites where you procrastinate? Sites without political trolls are preferred. |
It is amazing how everyone's address was part of the story until about 1970. The stories of people who lived in our house before us would bring you to tears, along with joy.
If you're into genealogy, it is a good resource to tie threads together with. Turns out my grandparents were the first ones married in a new church, back in the day, for example.
Articles: - This site - https://sadlunchbreak.com/
Quizzes: - Sporcle: https://www.sporcle.com/ - Geoguessr: https://www.geoguessr.com/ (1 quiz per day if you're on the free tier)
Wikis and rabbit holes: - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/
YouTube: - Search "documentary, long" in the searchbar and see what turns up. The "long" part will find videos that are longer than 20 minutes.
Sort of learning video game procrastination I guess trying not to crash on those crazy runways in your spare time he even does intl flights somehow in that ac
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The story tells story of Cambridge Analytica. Author describes how it all started, how they gathered data and influenced people. Also he describes how it affected politics. It is very well written and feels like really good political-fiction. Unfortunately his descriptions match how last two political campaigns run in my country. Same approaches were used to get people votes. I rarely used my social media accounts but after reading this piece I decided it is the right time to leave all of them.
The Economist. (I prefer to read it on paper though.)
Metafilter is also quite good.
Or subscribe to one or more newspapers.
I wish they’d bring out a monthly edition. I too like the paper based format but I just can’t keep up with weekly editions.
I have subscribed and then cancelled a couple of subscriptions with them over the years as I’d just end up with a stack of unread issues each time.
I have also canceled my subscription. These days I just go to the newsstand from time to time and get an issue when I feel like it.