(In one of the larger ironies of the Internet, social networks can tend to insulate people, and Bytedance's serving up of tailored-content silos has isolated its users rather than connecting them to the larger world).
Chhota Shigri and the other glaciers of the eastern Himalayas are unusual, in that, unlike the majority of the world's glaciers, which get most of their snow from winter storms, they get much of theirs from the summer monsoons, which tend to insulate them from more rapid melting.
And, because social media has a well-known young, liberal bias, and that users tend to insulate themselves in an echo-chamber of like-minded friends, it's improbable that anyone with a less-than-highly informed opinion would take the other side seriously, even if they wanted to.
However, the consumer goods sector tends to be somewhat insulated against the fallout from broad economic weakness.
"At the time he ascended," Mr. Goldstock said, "bosses tended to be insulated, prison sentences were fairly minimal and people who rose to his level were tested.
Thomas M. Galvin, portfolio manager of the Excelsior large-cap growth fund, said sin stocks tend to be insulated from swings in the economy.
Eli Pariser, the founder of MoveOn and Avaaz, has explained how we are effectively creating online echo chambers, where we tend to be insulated from views different from our own.
In practice, says Javier Garcia de Enterria, a partner at Clifford Chance, a law firm, the limits have tended simply to insulate management from big shareholders.Both sides are suffering from the spat.
Justice in these countries tends to be a sober affair, insulated as far as possible from external tumult.
