this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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Patience and nuance is a rare virtue in 2025
I'm not sure this is so much virtues becoming rarer as inconvenient demands emerging: a video that could have been an article is a problem of the modern age.
Articles can be read quickly & processed structurally by jumping around sections. Videos, however, can be agonizing, because they resist that sort of processing. Transcripts can alleviate the problem somewhat, but obfuscating them undoes that. And we've got things to do.
The video probably would have been an apprenticeship in the 1800s