I lean toward "efficient entertainment", but I do sometimes wonder what that chunk of my free time would look like otherwise.
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Yeah the people who were cataloging all the species of beetles in Germany were upper class types. Most people in 1820 were tilling fields or working in desperately terrible factories.
The 1800s gave us the likes of Michael Faraday the 2000s gave us the likes of Hank Green.
Hank Green is awesome.