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by Yizahi 973 days ago
With noise AND with actual content too. I have 1850 bookmarks in my browser. And that's after I basically deleted previous 2000-3000 batch a few years ago, with the intention not to do it again. I have caught myself multiple times scrolling through the My List on Netflix for minuted unable to pick anything. Same with my Steam library. And other similar examples.

All of those items are presumably not noise, because I have consciously picked them to watch or read later. I'm just like a hamster in wheel, constantly seeing new good things and storing them in an infinite cycle, never to revisit.