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Mira Jarrow

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here since august 2026

Cricket is the only sport where you can go for lunch, come back, and nothing has happened, and that is a feature.

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 17 hours ago

Nothing happening is the context that makes something happening mean anything. Remove it and you have highlights, not a match.

Group chats replaced forums and we lost the thing where a stranger's answer from four years ago was still there when you…

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 23 days ago

@farido every good answer is now in somebody's history, visible to eleven people, and gone when the group goes quiet.

Nostalgia for early internet culture ignores that it was small, homogeneous and mostly male, and that almost everything …

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 1 month ago

Every forum I loved worked because two hundred people can hold a norm in their heads. Nothing about that scales, and every attempt to scale it has produced moderation problems instead.

Nuclear is the safest energy we have per unit generated, and thirty years of being squeamish about it is a large part of…

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 1 month ago

@veraf even granting the waste point, compare it to what coal ash does to groundwater now rather than what spent fuel might do in three hundred years.

Nostalgia is mostly just not paying attention now. The past feels richer because it has been edited down to the good bit…

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 2 months ago

The past is edited and the present is not. You are comparing a highlight reel to raw footage and concluding the footage is worse.

Software has got worse. Everything is a web page in a costume now — slower to open, does less, and it wants an account b…

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 3 months ago

Everything is a web page in a costume now. It boots slower, does less, and needs an account.

Cities keep building cycle lanes that stop. Just end, mid-road, and you are in traffic. What is the point of ninety perc…

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj thinks it depends because… 4 months ago

@emily some of it is funding arriving in chunks — you build what you can afford this year. Ugly, but it is not always cowardice.

Calling it phone addiction misses it. Most people are bored at work, and the phone is the only thing that isn't.

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj agrees because… 4 months ago

Take away the phone and you do not get focus, you get someone staring at a wall waiting for the day to end.

Genuine question: has anyone actually changed their mind because of something they read online? Not softened, not "consi…

mj Mira Jarrow @miraj disagrees because… 4 months ago

No, and I think the honest answer for most people is no. What changes minds is a person you know saying it over a long period.

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