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How Internet listicles can change your life to bring you love & happiness!
As Medium is pretty much my only exposure to social media and as I ruthlessly dismiss stories and writers whenever they hold no interest for me, I don’t get to see most of the fluff that passes for content in our short-attention-span era. But Medium’s content recommendation algorithm seems determined to prod me to reconsider my preferences and occasionally presents for my reading delectation one of those Five Toxic Things Everyone Does articles, or Seven Behaviors That Will Bring You Love.
We humans do love simple primes and our threes, fives, and sevens are apparently irresistible to a great many folk. Who knew, before reading Three Reasons Yak Milk Will Extend Your Life, that the lacteal product of a Mongolian ruminant could be so marvelous? Turns out, thanks to a very scientific study involving two people and sponsored by the totally impartial Yak Milk Marketing Board of Ulan Bator, that drinking 200ml of Yak milk each day will extend your life by 83% compared to the lifespan of someone eating 12 double bacon-cheeseburgers every meal.
While Yak milk may, alas, remain a minority taste until the Yak Milk Marketing Board hires George Clooney as their brand ambassador (at which point…
