On: Can science find ways to ease loneliness?

[sandspar]

First sentence of article: "One Wednesday in May 2023, a small group gathered at an outdoor café in Barcelona, Spain, sipping coffee in the late morning sunshine and talking about their lives."

Can we please stop starting articles with fucking anecdote leads, Jesus Christ it's been like twenty years of this, get a new thing my God.

[anon7725 → sandspar]

It’s a piece in the popular press. People connect more with writing that is evocative rather than something that reads like a navel-gazing journal article or TPS report.

[rad_gruchalski → sandspar]

You’re barking at the wrong tree. Maybe that’s why it continues.

[taskforcegemini → sandspar]

maybe someone can come up with a multidimensional text interface, where content parts are tagged and you can disable bloat to only see the facts.