Well, that sucks 😅 Sounds like you should live in an apartment/condo! Still won’t escape the cleaning, though…

Doing something you don’t like for yourself feels quite different from doing it for someone else, though.

Most people who do something they don’t like for a living does that thing purely because it is the thing that makes some shareholder more money. All (or most of) the meaning has been sucked out, and that definitely has something to do with capitalism.

Of course we’ll probably never get to the point where everyone loves every day of their job, but injecting some value (that isn’t purely monetary) back into work would do wonders, IMO.

If you can’t see it, then that is your loss 😉

I think you’re wrong.

The glasses are absolutely smudged, but that is from the image processing on the phone. Low light most smartphones try to reduce noise by smoothing the picture, often excessively.

The text above the woman is not garbled nonsense, it says “<indecipherable> is biGGer”. The upper case G’s makes it look strange, but it is cohesive text.

The shoes look to be another smoothing artifact.

Indeed! And they do under representational democracies. In a community there will always be some sort of law or code, whether written or not, that some members of that community disagree with.

Absolutely agree! First past the post will always drift toward larger and less representative parties. Even proportional representation can have this tendency, but it is much more resilient.

This is exactly what happens with democratic societies

No. This is what happens when you have two sides, both too large to really represent anyone, battling for a sliver of majority using increasingly diverging views and then exercising as much power as they can before the roles flip again.

In an actual democracy representatives of the people, with many differing views, sit down together and decide case by case on a solution that most can be happy with.

Someone will always disagree with any decision when we live in a large society, but a functioning democracy is the closest thing we have ever come to making sure that as many as possible are happy (and more importantly get a say).

Haha, no worries! Just caught me off guard

I did not expect the, ahem, instructional images under the “purpose” heading 😅

I always run without music! I love the mindfulness of just being aware of my surroundings!

I guess this would very much depend on where you run, though. I would never run on a treadmill without music or a podcast, and running next to traffic would probably also be bad without listening to something.

TBF the AI features in Arc are actually pretty good! Just quality of life-stuff like renaming downloads and getting summary previews when hovering search results. I have a suspicion they’ll push it farther with Dia, though…

Can these guys please just start their own political party and maybe start dragging the US out of the two party hellhole while saving it from acute fascism?

Aww man, Red Faction was an awesome game! Didn’t the rail gun also have an infrared scope that could see through walls?

Example code == documentation

Get out of here with those propaganda techniques, please

Well, I’m sure the exposure from going to the shooting range is a lot smaller than this, but lead poisoning from leaded gasoline apparently had a measurable impact on IQ levels.

I 100 percent agree that the big problem of the educational system, though! It is also interesting how self-fulfilling the adversity to government has been: it has made it so easy for men with bad intentions to tear down an at least functional democracy by promising to “fix” it.

Even if this were the case (it is not in any real sense, see your other replies), the fact that it is done by a for profit entity that will lose money by approving a claim all but ensures the process will not be neutral or correct.

Suspected as much!

The term is «affordance»

Wearing only a codpiece? That’s daring…