

Then Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that’s exactly what wasn’t needed.
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.


Then Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that’s exactly what wasn’t needed.


As a sidenote to things flying off, if you’re in an area that’s had snow, ice, or even just freezing temps, stay far back from any semis pulling a trailer. Guarantee that they don’t get up there to remove what’s there, and large chunks of ice can not only do damage to a following car, it could be lethal. It is absolutely the responsibility and even maybe the legality of the truck driver, but that doesn’t help the dead.


I think most people using them know that there’s not something there, and yet when using it they’ll still act as there is. Even giving it that benefit of doubt in what it outputs as valid, as if it’s from another person, maybe even one who knows more than they do. So it’s a gray area of “not believing”.


Many popular writing experts say to write messy. You want to get the ideas out, even if they’re ugly and imperfect, and go back later to fix the mistakes. Same can be said I suppose for any art. It’s what Bob Ross used to talk about in painting. Music, you can’t experiment and find what works without making some noise.


Sam Harris had a video on free will, and in it, he asked the audience to think of something (a color, or something simple but spontaneous). Then he asked them to try and think when in their thought process did that choice make itself known and get picked? I don’t think it’s as simple as there being free will or not, but I think what we experience is a bit of both coming together to give a sense of choice and self, when actually some things are deterministic by who we are or have become through life and experience. The wiring in the brain and its software. We’re not so hard wired that we can be perfectly predicted every time, but we do have preferred pathways created over time that influence any actual choice that’s made at the core.
So in answer to the title, it’s yes and no. There are some things that are far more fixed in our personalities that we understand at least partially why we do what we do. Then there are others that we don’t or can’t, or take years of therapy to figure out. But it’s a mix.


Of course they’re stealing; they have no morality in anything else they’re doing.


Some might say thumbs up works for that, but there’s also an up or down arrow, which suggests a vote either way.


Where the peak is depends on how you measure it. Wavelength or frequency gives different curves. If measures as a perfect blackbody the peak is green (which is connected to why chlorophyll took off, even though it’s less efficient for energy capture). But we get all visible light to some degree, so its color is white. Classification has a different meaning than what it looks like.


I’ve found the only long-term, totally happy dual boot system is where you autoboot into Linux. And never boot into Windows. Every now and then I have to go back into my Win10 to do something (much rarer now, almost ready to reclaim some space). Boy, Windows hates having any signs you’ve been somewhere else.


“Lockdown” in quotes, because it wasn’t a full lockdown. They started, but then realized that the economy would really tank, so they loosened it up a bit and made some nice PR (“6 feet” and “15 days”) to convince us that things were fine and under control.


This is good parenting. You can’t always be there to guide them or restrict them, nor should you want to be. You instead help them understand how to navigate the world themselves smartly. This is true for anything, not just what they see on the internet.


That or the price of advancement has made things impossible to fix without swapping out entire components or just get a new one. Which has been taken advantage of by making things fail a lot sooner. So much easier to make it cheaper so it gets replaced, and it keeps the company in business and is more profitable.


Or you have the bit rate high enough so you only max it out at the inner song and just don’t need it at the start.
There’s a lot pumped into a single groove, based on video on how stereo works on vinyl.


Aka Helen Keller universe. That’s mind blowing to think about, I think you may be onto something. Maybe their perspective would be much more open, as they can feel their body and understand its reference points, so the stronger stimuli would shift their POV to the place receiving it briefly?


If you’re playing a 1st person game and it’s very immersive, your “self” migrates to the screen point, i.e. right behind the character’s eyes location. So I think your statement is right. A good test would be to ask someone blind from birth (to avoid previous experience with sight) where their sense of being is. Maybe it’s a bit back, between the ears?


What’s the philosophical term for thinking that “you” are not in the brain either, but rather riding along the electrochemical signals and formations throughout the brain, and this would include the rest of the body in the sense of feeling and control of it and its feedbacks (which is the point of OP). It’s not really duality or a soul, as its dependent on both body and mind to be functioning correctly and intermingled.


House dust is up to 50% human skin particles. You’re breathing in all sorts of crap, and outside I’m sure there’s loads more including animal crap.


That’s 2.5B with 80 views a day, or 1.25 with 160 a day. Sadly those numbers aren’t that unbelievable the way people consume short media. Just average it out so some make up for others only watching a few.


And depending on your refrigerator’s settings and insulation, the door compartments may be cold enough for more stable things but not for things like milk. Too me a bit to figure out having the milk in the door was both convenient and cutting its lifetime down a lot. Only takes a few degrees, plus the large door shelf is usually higher up, where the warmer air is.
This may be a common human thing to do. The difference is the buffer zone that someone has before things become unbearable. Not an excuse, the right thing to do in a society that’s interconnected and educated is not to wait until that point to take action. But… we could probably argue how interconnected and educated people are with echo chambers and propaganda designed to keep them in control.
At some point things do break, regardless. Hopefully sooner than later.