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Like the chip-software in Gibson’s sprawl, from the micro-soft to the ROM cowboy to the Aleph, the endgame of computertool distribution is via single-use chunks of quasi-biological computronium

Can’t say; this set of genes didn’t produce a consciousness that cares to pass them along, I suppose

This assertion relies a bit much on overloading the definition of “life”, and I for one care more about spreading my ideas than my genes.

What are the other axes in your theory?

Artificial colorants make it easier to design visually hyperstimulating foods without having to compromise on flavor. What could the upside for the consumer be, to disrupt our evolved associations between appearance and flavor?

I dare say autism is the pride of human intelligence.

I regret never having written a single essay in my decade of being homeschooled; it wasn’t until the last year of my bachelor’s I could even begin to appreciate the benefit to the writer that composing an essay has. I find it sad that future cohorts of students will have even less of a chance to lay hold on that power.

I simply ask that Apple let me plug my phone into any USB-C dock and use it as if I had done the same with a MacBook.

Learn by imitation ; if you want to make DnB tracks, try and inevitably fail to recreate existing DnB that you admire. With time your failures-to-imitate will congeal into a novel and personal style.

Uh, too bad for them? What if I want a hot muscular body, but don’t want to spend the hundreds of hours running, lifting weights, planning and executing a healthy diet; and I certainly don’t want to use steroids?

I should rather have said, “we will solve it no sooner than …”, because certainly there are countless other ways society constrains desire to the detriment of the subject’s capacity to relate to others. I’m sure our musical culture would do well to cast off twelve-tone equal temperament, which trades a dimension of artistic expression for a certain fungibility; pitch classes have no particular identities because their internal relations a have been flattened, every perfect fifth is as perfect as it will be, every major third sounds equally inflamed, and so on.

But as for matters of mental health; I assert that every man exhibits desires which we have decided fates him to be a homosexual. Any suppression of true desire (as opposed to that which society grafts upon us) introduces a schizm in the personality. Consequently, there is not a man alive who is spared from this issue; all men are divided against themselves, and so they are divided against each other and against really anyone they ought to be vulnerable with.

AllElectronics in CA, too. I bought out their 10k dual-taper A/C pots during their closing sale; an unusual but powerful taper for audio electronics.

I don’t regret my math minor but that didn’t go on the paper diploma …

As an American, I would not call our system healthy from a practical sense; certainly not for society, if this past decade of mounting instability, distrust, and profiteering is any indication.