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Some of this is knowing where to look. If you want medicine interactions, examine.com has everything there is to know about the published scientific data on dietary supplements, and the FDA itself publishes all of the drug inserts for actual pharmaceuticals with every know interaction and side effect discovered during clinical testing. Great video content still exists, too. I recently watched most of the Kurosawa back catalog recently, which I should have done years ago, but now most of it is on HBO Max. Every studio having its own streaming platform now at least means virtually every great film ever filmed is at your fingertips now, but you have to put up with the reality that you still need to explicitly look for it. They're never going to put this stuff in the trending recommendations or whatever.

It's like the world needs librarians again and maybe all the nerds who used to staff video and record stores, poorly paid but passionate purveyors of information who had no incentive to sell you anything because they were going to get the same shit wage no matter what. Except I guess we need to figure out a way to also pay them.



Maybe the key is bypassing what we (rightly or wrongly) view as 'Guardians' like the Googles of the world




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