I stopped reading when I reached that part of the article. The way it was described made it unbelievable to me; That ads made the author feel "convinced [they] needed them". The author is being melodramatic throughout the entire article.
The parent comment you're responding to didn't downplay slavery in any way, nor did they say that this person had it better or worse. Just that this person's experience was different. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that slavery didn't always look the same as we may imagine. There were varying experiences. It's history.
I used to use Feedly, but it was too slow for my taste. Started using Inoreader a couple of years ago and I love it enough to pay for it. Has all of the display and sorting options I could want, as well as keyword highlights and more.
For those that find it tedious to write swagger by hand, I've been using Stoplight[1] at work and it's been working pretty well. You can create the spec from scratch, or use their proxy to auto-document your api.
I basically did this at my job. The open office chatter and sounds really affects me, and I really don't feel like pumping more sound into my ears all the time just to drown out the sound I don't want to listen to. So, I started grabbing the same small private space in our office every day and worked there all day long. Now everyone knows it as my "office", even though it's mostly said as a joke.
Would you be willing to write up a guide of some sort about the steps that someone could take to protect their information? Personally, I would be willing to pay for something like that.
I believe the strategy is usually to demand an amount that is enough to be annoying but not so much that it is prohibitive. Ideally, the target is willing to quickly pay the money to unlock their systems.
> The manager said it was cheaper and faster for the hotel to just pay the Bitcoin.
Pocket Casts is the Android app I use and it's pretty good. It supports streaming or downloading podcasts and you can adjust playback speed, auto-skip silence, customize forward/backward skip button durations, etc.