I imagine the conversation between a University and potential student going like this:

1    I'd like to get qualified in a subject.

Four years.

1    Woah there, I haven't told you what I want to learn yet.

Doesn't matter. Everything takes four years to learn.

1    Really?  *Everything*? Art and medicine? …

"News sources are biased", and "everyone lives in a bubble", we all hear constantly (or perhaps that's just my bubble). But what would a non-biased news source look like?

Taking a strict middle-ground gives immediately ridiculous conclusions. Perhaps the UK's food banks suggest some problem, but not …

I'll miss pens when they go. I like how they feel. I like that handwriting is almost impossible to fake. I like that when I receive a letter, I can tell who sent it just from how they write the address. But it all has to go.

Pens have some advantages over computers. One can generally access a pen-record faster - just …

I wake, and enter my algorithm-free RSS feed. It is perfect and pure.

I see a list (in the order I select) of everyone I want to follow. YouTube channels show up just like everything else, and I see only the name. With a quick shortcut-key, I tell the computer I want to watch the video later.

Onto the next feed, I find …

I felt so very bored with learning in high school that WWII was bad.

The lesson plan, as far as I remember, was this:

• War happened, it was bad.
• It was bad the war happened.
• Nazis did a war, which was bad.
• Nazis did it because of racism, which is also bad.
• (English class) Poetry about how the war was bad
• 11 Million …

About a quarter of the time I say I'm Scottish, someone mentions how beautiful the nature there is, and how much they'd like to visit.

Putting aside that they might just be saying this as a conversation piece, and putting our 'autistic caps' on, the idea's baffling.

I've travelled a reasonable chunk of the planet, and …

Reading Plato's various Dialogues, I've come across a few very strange choices from the translators.

Firstly, a pig could be dedicated as a 'sacrifice' to a god. I've read that people would then eat the 'sacrifice', and initially thought this was a cop-out - if you eat the meal, then you're not really sacrificing …

I really hate computers engaging in pretend conversations.

Hey, you left this.

Okay.

Do you still want it?

No.

Are you sure?

Yes, leave it.

Okay, before you go...would you like to sign up for this newsletter?

No.

Can I go now?

I don't want a conversation, I want actions. I don't want to ask to save, I just want …

My partner watches YT videos in the background while working, and the nonsense I hear is unreal.

• People stop to discuss the algorithm, and request audience intervention, persistently.
• People use code-words for drugs, death, suicide, and anything else they think the algorithm may dislike.
• Sponsorship ads last minutes, …