UnbornTao

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Monkeys can rip off not only your belongings, but also your face.

For sure. I'm not a tech guy, but I like learning about the world of software and different Linux distros. If anything, just for the fun and the philosophy behind it. What distro do you use? Depends on the use case, of course. Have you considered dual-booting? There are decent alternatives out there in the Linux world, I've heard. Affinity is apparently considering developing a Linux version of their app. Could be a decent Photoshop replacement at some point…

Thanks! Watched it a few hours ago. To add to the video you shared:

Yeah, I've been dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows 11, slowly transitioning to a Linux-only setup. I still like to keep Windows around, though, just in case I need it for specific use cases, like light gaming with some kernel-level anti-cheat games. There's a script called Windows Utility, by Chris Titus, that I like to use on Windows. It removes bloat and configures some of that shit for you. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

How much of your life's efforts are spent on "looking good" - on managing how you appear to others?

I think I can see what you mean, but then again, perceiving some change in shape or seeing patterns isn't the same as language. The reverberations themselves are just that - what could they possibly be saying? Why would they care, so to speak? It's like thinking that a glass is "communicating" with you because it fell to the floor, broke, and made a sound, and you produced a reaction as a result of that event. The idea that something is being conveyed is entirely dependent on a linguistic context. Remove that, and it's just whatever the thing is: a perception, a sound, a shape, a visual pattern, a reaction. Geometry is geometry; a shape is a shape; color is color. What actually makes them capable of referring to an experience of what they are not? Language! What you call translation is enabled precisely by this language-possibility. Would you call me scratching a blackboard with my fingernails - and your reaction to that sound - an example of communication? We take the invention of language, and our experience of it, completely for granted, which is understandable. We assume it’s an objective reality. This brings me back to my point: it's hard to experience "life" prior to the invention of language.

There are probably a bunch of these kinds of songs here too:

It was more of an explicit metaphor for the hive mind. I... have no idea how to answer that.

Difficult to say. Have (create in your experience) a thought you've never had. We'll try to come up with different things, likely combining X and Y, as you suggested above, but yeah, it does seem to be a rare occurence.

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So-called enshitification is happening to Windows as well.

Can't you consciously conform?

Looks like Smaug's eye, too - the dragon from The Hobbit.

Oh yeah, for sure. As a sidenote, it seems almost automatic to hear "conformist" as a negative thing, doesn't it? We keep bumping into this.

"Carries." That's the keyword. How does that come about?! What makes it possible? In a figurative sense, I would agree with your first claim. Hmm, what if I gave you the finger? Or made a heart shape with my hands? Is there a distinction to be made between what the body does - adopting a certain posture, say - and what is then added to it (perhaps through interpretation), like the existence of gesture, symbol, meaning, and so on? Yeah, sand reacting to sound. Where is language to be found there? Reverberation may be a function of movement and doesn't necessarily have to involve language of any kind.

It's mainly a preference for having everything in one unified format - useful for loading onto a Kindle or smartphone. Besides, the content is stored locally. To me, the current method feels a bit clunky. I think I downloaded the website with HTTrack a bunch of years ago. Now I just simply have to sort through hundreds of HTML files.

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Now that I think about it, there should be a few threads sharing some high-quality political resources, maybe including the Spiral Dynamics threads. You guys look it up

Actually, even though I'm not really into politics (and it's video content), I can appreciate the work of people like Jon Stewart and John Oliver - they tend to be fairly candid, insightful, and entertaining, I've found. Could be useful.

@Thought Art reminded me:

It's not even personal, it tends to come with the territory. Or rather, it's what people tend to do.