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FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

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269 points youz | 5 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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peacebeard ◴[23 Oct 25 22:46 UTC] No.45688386[source]▶
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”

― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

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kadoban ◴[23 Oct 25 22:57 UTC] No.45688489[source]▶
The heedless luxury and "no good activity" are some of the better parts of life.

Personally I live for the every day, I'm not worrying too much about what I will regret for a few hours on my last day(s) if I even make it there.

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1. PaulDavisThe1st ◴[23 Oct 25 23:20 UTC] No.45688706[source]▶
Then consider what you may regret for the last 10 years of your life, when your mobility, sight and hearing capabilities are all degraded either a lot or a little, and you look back and realize that you spent 3000 hours on youtube shorts.
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2. yoyohello13 ◴[23 Oct 25 23:48 UTC] No.45688975[source]▶
If All my senses have been significantly degraded for the past 10 years I would probably regret not living in a country that allows assisted suicide.
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3. PaulDavisThe1st ◴[23 Oct 25 23:53 UTC] No.45689021[source]▶
Here's what I call significantly degraded: I can no longer read most books without reading glasses.

Assisted suicide for that? I don't think so...

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4. kadoban ◴[24 Oct 25 00:00 UTC] No.45689086[source]▶
> Then consider what you may regret for the last 10 years of your life, when your mobility, sight and hearing capabilities are all degraded either a lot or a little, and you look back and realize that you spent 3000 hours on youtube shorts.

I don't watch a lot of shorts, I don't find them that compelling. But I do watch a lot of shows and youtube videos, both of which many people would put in the same bucket. If I'm old and my sight and hearing suck, I'd hope I'll be happy that I watched the shows and movies I could while I had the chance.

To be clear, I don't even disagree with the original quote, I just think that there's many (hopefully mistaken, but I don't know the author) interpretations of it that come down to "no having fun, you'll regret it!"

5. yoyohello13 ◴[24 Oct 25 00:46 UTC] No.45689418{3}[source]▶
On the plus side, your eyes would probably still be good enough to watch YouTube shorts.