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Now appreciating that the post did not require me to agree with the writer to find it valuable, and a look at coilbyrd maintained the same useful regardless of agreement quality, content that informs even when it does not convince is content with broader utility and this site reads as useful even when I disagree.

Now feeling slightly more optimistic about the state of independent writing online, and a stop at curbcliff extended that quiet optimism, sites like this one are the reason I have not given up on the open web entirely and finding them occasionally renews the case for paying attention to non algorithmic content sources today.