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"Every extension of mankind, especially technological extensions, has the effect of amputating or modifying some other extension[…] The extension of a technology like the automobile “amputates” the need for a highly developed walking culture, which in turn causes cities and countries to develop in different ways. The telephone extends the voice, but also amputates the art of penmanship gained through regular correspondence. ways.” — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Love this quote, and many others by MM. Utterly blows my mind how we seem to be failing to apply and extend his teachings to help understand this modernity beta test we're participating in.

All those episodes of Price is Right finally paid off.

I'm installing this asap tmrw, along with a couple others mentioned in this thread. Tools I didn't know I needed to know ;)

Thanks so much for releasing this useful and time saving software, you da man! Can't wait to see where this goes and I'd like to be part of the community.

Absolutely agree. Jimmy jet set is getting his vibrolux pen set delivered biweekly in record time, meanwhile some of the world waits exorbodently for deliveries of life saving medicine and food, or are otherwise greatly dissserviced by supply and delivery operations.

>Physical drugs >majority of society doesn't use

Maybe you meant illicit drugs. Almost everyone I know of consumes some type of drug.

Your idea seems similar to China's recent policy, restricting access to online games for younger people.

Do they publicly index this information tho?

Strange because I've always seen the saurdukhar/fremen as a literary interpretation of a real aspect of human nature - the ability (of some) to perserverve and excel in stressful/difficult situations.

Some real life examples I've pointed too are the ghurkas in WW2 or Russian hackers.

Care to elaborate?

Isn't most jailbreaking and protections tampering done by people w/o high school, let alone cs degrees.

This inefficiency and it's resulting poor working conditions aren't unique to countries with health insurance and private healthcare tho, see Canada.

That'd actually be sweet. I'm a joke person and I'd love a platform to learn new jokes.

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>“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet.

>obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff

None of the preceding scoundrels' favorites should be illegal tho.

The arbiter of the global soapbox should to be in favor of almost absolute free speech imo.

Increasingly, many of these rural primary industries will need on site tech workers as well.

Rural Canada is where I'm located at the moment. I tend to agree with GP that cities are an inevitable migration towards efficiency and that rural life is increasingly an unsustainable welfare state.

Haha I know eh.

Thanks for the bigman comeback earlier too, you phrased it better than I could have.

Star treks' historical diversity only applies to nationalities and is a reference to us solving our petty skin/flag squabbles long ago.

There are a host of "woke" modern themes that find their way into western media in general. I sometimes wonder if the next star trek crew will be all David bowies and Barclays.

Hard to say Netflix is worse for this than various other Hollywood studios tho.

(to clarify in anticipation of downvotes, I welcome and enjoy some of the media about trans people etc, I am just answering your question, to elucidate this issue with the services' content that some people have. Definitely not a rare or new issue, I've been listening to people go on about it for years)

Probably like most shitty litigation

I think he means this bit:

>you can either have ... In the real world those are your only two options

I found his opinion enlightening and pointed, unlike your own, rather barbed, post.

Also, being in a "position of needing to die" isn't an absolute predicate for debating this issue.

>You could probably gaslight your girlfriend with it, if you are incomprehensibly evil.

I'm honestly a bit more concerned with people gaslighting courts.

The technology isn't going away, unfortunately. Society will have to adapt to these new invasive norms, as they already have time and again in the past.

How is NATO (and it's minimal expansions) not a concern to Russia again?

It's more complex now, but for awhile they were the two players at the game.

Indeed. One teensy tiny little lie.

NATO expanding east is a legitimate concern to Russia, and it makes sense they would view it as a longstanding insidious aggression.

If alcohol was tasteless, and a few milliliters could incapacitate someone to the point they risk being date raped, you'd have a point.

GP uplifted my perspective on my projects' progress as well. I have anxiety, adhd, go to aa, am exhibit a, etc. It's a tiger to ride but I wouldn't have it any other way!

I'm going to dig back in tonight with a fresher outlook, will look at that Sher book too.

Pick two: Justice, rich people, America (see Will Smith)

Then we agree, at least in principle.

I don't know the details of this legislation but I have viewed Australia as a beta test for new tech legislation and worry this sort of authorization barrier could become more common place in Western countries.

Needing gov't ID to follow search links is dystopian, and antithetical to the original spirit of the Internet.

Google should flat out refuse when governments make these requests.

Canadian has free healthcare and still has diesel public/school buses

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