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I think that's what religion gives, and it doesn't have to be organized religion. I'm not proselytizing, I'm just pointing out why across so many human cultures people always come up with stories and thoughts about the afterlife. The cold unknown means basically nothing and the fear I think comes from the nothingness -- imagine a life full of the sorrow and joys, and then it just vanishes. And worse of all, if nobody even remembers much it of it, it literally vanishes. For example if a war veteran never tells his experiences to anyone, he basically just vanished from earth and one can ask so did the things he went through happen? If a tree falls and nobody hears it and all that.
I'm probably expressing it poorly but I've been thinking about it too after experiencing some loss too. In my case the person just graduated college. I think the dead have it easy, the suffering lies with the living…
Thus there is only a very small segment of industries and people that utilize these things, and with it becoming a niche, it gets forgotten. I won't be surprised that the only users are small part of government and defence.
A more useful thing will just be what homelabbers use - if you're lazy cloudflare tunnels, or if you put in the effort, corporate VPN and DMZ and ACLs and VLANs etc. It's already well established, it's not a lack of knowledge, it's a lack of effort.
I can feel my heart rate go up. Sometimes when asking or answering questions in the lecture hall I start quivering. Just the thought of standing up, preparing my question and follow ups can cause this.
You may be right in that it's an excuse. But at the same time there's this disgusting physical reaction and yes it's easier to give in than to stand up.
It's easier to interact with loved ones and close friends because you know they know you and won't judge if you say something wrong etc. But not so for any other interaction.
While we're on their subject, Amazon customer service chat can only be done on the app, not on browser on mobile.
The future is now!
Also famously, the million types of context menus in Windows.
Neuron activation
This would be the equivalent of "the crane built the skyscraper" or "the bulldozer produced timber". Yes in raw joules they probably did most of the work but you see it's not the usual way we do things.
So as long as there's no motive behind it then it's just OK?