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It’s been my experience that most people’s patience for george lucas decreases dramatically the more they love star wars.

That code is to computer porn as the Hunt the Wumpus is to computer games.

Not everything is about productivity, sheesh. Sometimes you just want to emiserate the poor for the joy of it.

I love this comment so much, but it feels hypocritical for a supporter of Canadian cricket to be lecturing people about doing it wrong.

Yep, false positives are a problem for a dead man’s switch.

Two weeks without being able to get internet access or word to a friend is definitely possible but seems pretty unlikely.

You could make it more than 2 weeks out but I think that’s a good middle ground between avoiding false positives and striking while the iron is hot, you know? Imagine sending an email beginning “if you’re reading this I’m dead…” and having recipients think “Yeah, that was ages ago.”

I always thought it was just like an email set to future send in say a week or 2, then every few days or every week you go in and bump forward the date.

I always heard a Dead Man’s Switch defined as a switch which goes off once you stop pressing it. So you just set up something to go off in the future, then for as long as you’re alive you keep preventing it from going off.

The stature is new.

There’s no reason why we should be, we just are. Like everything else.

the meaning, the dream-manifestation, is more important to them than the actual experience.

I’m going to be thinking over that for a while.

Back home I used to go to the annual exhibition of the top high school art students. The explanations were often long-winded, pretentious, not always super coherent. Fair enough I was too in high school. But there was one I loved. It was a very industrial looking metal sculpture of fish skeleton made of rusty engine parts, all teeth and gears. Maybe 3’x3’. The explanation was: “A fish. A big fish. A big scary fish with a motor!”

Heaps of other animals learn from the experiences of others.

Orcas have culture, crows in europe taught each other how to peck out just the liver of frogs and make them explode, capuchin monkeys make stone tools, even plants release volatile organic compounds to warn each other of attackers and disease.

I can’t recall for certain but I’m pretty sure at least one of the far northern american languages has it. Like something from Eskaleut or Athabaskan. A quick scroll through their wikipedia pages didn’t help, and I can’t remember the formal name for this feature. If anyone else can chime in, that would be appreciated!

Some languages make a grammatical distinction between them, like there’s a different affix or a different form of the verb or noun if it came from personal experience, a trusted source, a distant source, inference etc.

Most cultural institutions exist in imaginary space but have incredible power over people. The state, god, heirarchy, status, identity. I definitely think the unreal is way more present in our lives than people normally accept.

Have you read the zhuangzi? “How can I tell if I’m zhuangzi dreaming he’s a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he’s zhuangzi?” is probably the most famous line from that text.

Personally, I think the story is encouraging the joy of not knowing, becoming comfortable in a world that lacks fundamental certainties even about yourself and reality.

If this question interests you, you might enjoy the full text - it’s public domain and there are plenty of recordings on youtube.

Not OP but games aren’t real life, they’re often a power fantasy or a simplification of the world.

If the two categories we’re considering are dream or reality, I’d put games into dream.

I dunno, the comment made perfect sense to me.

Project Veritas style undercover report by a conservative outlet so no one here is going to believe or care about any of it

So close to self-awareness!

TBH ‘Yes (it’s unethical)’ still seems ambiguous to me. I interpreted the ‘it’ as referring to the previous nouns - beggers and strip clubs - and thought you meant it’s ok because beggers and strip club workers are unethical.

Collection plate is fine, anything where the person needs the money is a super dick move.

Tips aren’t an optional gift, not in the US. Tipping in the US is and explicitly began as a way to make sure you didn’t have to pay black people if you didn’t want to. Even in states without separate tip/no tip minimum wages, you’re fucking with people’s expected income and ability to plan their finances/life.

Giving fake money to homeless/working poor is straight up cruel - they are way more likely to suffer legal consequences for not realizing you were a dick.

Something old, like a name from Sumer, Akkad, Elam, maybe something Hittite.

Epirmupi, Shamsaki, Puzur-Inshushinak, Ninurta, Lugalzagasi, Tiglath-Pileser, Hattusili, Suppiluliuma.

The article is not talking about pro Israel opinions.

It points out specific ways that current practices are leading to credulous and untrustworthy reporting. And highlights the history that the current editor in chief (who began 2 days after oct 7) has of bowing to Israeli government pressure in his previous role at the BBC, including firing specific staff at their request.

It is obviously not credible journalism to just take the word of a government at war. Governments lie, moreso when they are at war.