Great article. I think one of the reasons these weasely constructions are becoming more noticeable, is that communications now are more frequently electronic written notifications, rather than in-person at meetings.

Why would I want a shot or a booster?

I’m just waiting for your next article that says you need to be vaccinated every two weeks to be “fully vaccinated”. Meanwhile Sweden who never shut down, was one of the last to achieve a high level of “vaccination status” hasn’t had a surge of the delta variant. Gee maybe that natural immunity really does work.

Why bother? We’ve learned that the segregation of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated is meaningless as both can get and transmit COVID.

Why do you think the vaccines are going to help with infection rates? Have you looked at the most recent Israeli spike? They are on shot #4. Are you keeping up with current info?

Speaking of boosters, all of my friends (late 20s/early 30s, healthy, work remotely) are going for them already and I don’t really get it? I know they’re going to be *authorized* for people like us soon (as in, you *can* get one under 65 without essentially fibbing a bit about having a high risk job or medical…

“multiple small and large scale studies have failed to find a convincing causal association between aluminum exposure in humans and Alzheimer’s disease.”

Just disabled it. What I found really shady was the fact that, under the setting, it had the text “recommended”. You (Chrome) recommend we allow sites to track my motion?  FFS, why?  (That’s a rhetorical question.  We know why.  “money”).

Even better than going through your closet to figure out what to sell or give away is to just heavily examine every new thing you think you want to buy. My rule is that I no longer buy things I *think* I’ll use. If I can’t immediately think of a way the item will benefit my life, I don’t buy it. I don’t shop online…

Why don’t you start by not pushing crap on Kinja Deals? Or better yet, get rid of Kinja Deals altogether.

I don’t know how I ended up in the greys in lifehacker but sure seems like I’m gonna be here until the site shuts down. It seems like they are intentionally breaking the sites more and more. The writers don’t even interact with the comment section anymore.

Couldn’t agree more.

It’s too bad. Back in the day, I turned a ton of people on to Gizmodo. Now I can’t even post a comment there. One day I woke up in the greys a few years ago and been there ever since. Never did a thing. I legitimately got tossed from Jalopnik, I was bad and admit it. Oh, well. None of the other sites though. It seemed…

Yep, I’ve been coming to these sites since the 2010-2011 timeframe and it’s really sad what it has turned into. A lot of these sites used to be really really good and now it’s more something to check out of habit than anything.

Like I said, I’ve been coming to the site since 2009 in my present form, I’ve noticed the big difference. Comment quality is piss poor along with interaction. There are a couple blogs here, which I won’t mention, that have a lot of commenting, but it’s more echo chamber than real commenting. It used to be a lot of fun…

That’s true. They really need to open things up. 

There is hardly any interaction happening here anymore and anytime someone in the grays comments I can’t even see it to star it because when I click show pending they all disappear. I’m pretty sure hardly any of the bloggers read the comments on their articles and respond as well. It’s not like there’s too much to…

yeah how is a site this big, this broken?

A huge part of the problem is Kinja stopped working properly. You can’t see responses to your comments by clicking your notifications (yes, I realize the Alanis Morrissette-ian levels of irony I’m reaching here) without scrolling through every comment. That pretty well smothers any decent chance at conversation in the…

I’m waiting on my Moderna.