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Examples?

Apart from apple glass I can’t think of UX changes not prompted by feature changes.

Wow, what a post.

A new term I encountered is “human-stewarded”.

Same. The atmosphere it creates is still unmatched.

I wish I hadn’t watched BR2049. Felt like a cheap parody, from the torrents of water falling on the windows, to the fake light effects, to the cartoonish villain who of course had to butcher a human-looking replicant while monologuing in order to get a proper introduction.

> But that is precisely what human mathematicians do, prove new theorems by combining ones proven earlier.

I’d say “understanding and building upon ones proven earlier”

What sporty thing can a washer and drier do?

Narrative is defined by ideology and the media machinery able to sustain it. Facts are woven in only when serving the desired reality.

If you and I listened to the propaganda on the regular basis, our intuitive knowledge would associate clean energy with isolated from reality snowflake liberals, hippies, abortion, subsidies, as opposed to fossil fuel energy associated with manliness, strength, common sense, “good old values”, military strength, and freedom.

Just like beef (“it’s what’s for dinner”) and a delicious juicy rare steak. See?

I recommend checking out George Lakoff’s work on the power of identity and metaphors. Look up his “moral politics” lecture on YouTube.

Even better: see Wim Wenders’ The End of Violence.

It also happens to be my favorite book on acting and improvisation, with tons of brilliant exercises. highly recommended.

What about (insert any other favorite but irrelevant example here).

Stopped mistaking my thoughts and opinions with reality.

Result: 90% reduction of agony.

Meditation method: remembering the sense of “I am-ness” in every waking moment, stop thinking whenever possible, focus on senses whenever I remember. When: always, unless I forget.

1. War is insanity already. Not sure how pointing ways someone is making war more efficient is sanewashing in this context.

2. Assuming every pow gets tortured is an extraordinary statement which as such could use some solid proof.

Clojure

One should never write about an idea before implementing it?

People? It’s an increasingly wrote-only medium where the writing is automated.