An interesting way to misspell “subscription”

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You have free will, but you also have chains that bound you.

Starting from the social order, you need money and other social relations (friends, family, bosses) to literally survive in the modern world - you’re not omnipotent.

Then you have the cognitive chains - stuff you know and understand, as well stuff you can invent (or reinvent) from your current knowledge - you are not omnipresent.

Then, as a consequence, without these two, you cannot be (omni)benevolent - you’ll always fuck something up (and even if you didn’t, most actions positive towards something will have a negative impact towards something else).

All these are pretty much categorically impossible to exist - you’re not some god-damn deity.

But does this mean free will doesn’t exist?

Hardly. It’s just not as ultimate a power or virtue as some may put it. Flies or pigs also have free will - they’re free to roll in mud or lick a turd - except for when they’re not because they do it to survive (cool themselves or eat respectively).

We humans similarily eat and shit, and we go to work so we have something to eat and someplace to shit. Otherwise you die without the former or get fined without the latter.

So that’s what free will is - the ability of an organism to guide what it’s doing, how, when (and, to some extent, even why) it’s doing it, according to its senses and sensibilities. It’s the process with which we put our own, unique spin on the things in our lives.

Being an omnipotent, omnipresent and (omni)benevolent would in fact remove the essence of what free will (with all its limits) is, because our actions wouldn’t have any meaningful consequences. It’d all just be an effective (what I’ll call negative) chaos - a mishmush of everything only understandable to the diety.

So in fact, the essence of “free” will is that it’s free within some bounds - some we’ve set ourselves, some we’re forced with (disabilities, cognitive abilities, physical limits, etc.). Percisely in the alternative scenario would “free” will cease to be free - because someone already knows it all - past, present future, local and global, from each atom on up. There’s perfect causality - as perfect as a movie. You can’t change it meaningfully - any changes become a remix or remaster - they lose their originality.

With the limits on our thinking which cause us to be less-than-perfect, they cause a kind of positive chaos, one where one tries to do their best with what they have on their disposal - as they say, you get to know people best at their lowest. Similarily, everyone gets corrupted at a high enough power level - some just do it sooner than others. So surely, at an infinite power level, not even someone omnipotent, omnipresent and (omni)benevolent all at once would be able to curb this flaw.

It’s a Linux subsystem for Windows. As in, you run Windows and within it run Linux. Thus Linux is the sub-system, while Windows is the “overarching” system. Therefore, it’s Linux running as a subsystem on a Windows machine. Therefore, a Linux subsystem on/for Windows.

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That was just setting the two viewpoints equal.

Now, to add why this one is more “correct”: when talking about Windows (or Linux or anything else fir that matter) subsystems, you don’t call the Windows file system the Windows subsystem for Files or the Windows subsystem for Networking or Linux subsystem for RNG - You call them the filesystem, the networking system or the RNG system. And since none of them get the “for host” suffix, it seems natural to assume it’s the guest system that’s the “sub” system, with the other one being the whole.

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The EU is not an alliance, since member states give up a good portion of their sovereignty to the bloc. It’s much closer to a “loosely bound US” than a “NATO on steroids”.

It literally is just Incognito (Private browsing), a little reskinned. Pretty much a temporary container living as long as the Ghest window - just like Incognito.

In fact - no, it’s just a reskin of incognito to make it not feel like you’re not watching porn.

Which might make it feel like a non-issue and a useless thing to add, but flip that around - it’s a low-cost, potentially very high-reward improvement. It really should’ve been implemented ages ago.

The only things that need to be changed is the new tab page and the toolbar - both design “improvements”.

Great. Now do Guest mode. It’s a must-have for places like libraries and internet cafes - if Firefox equalled Chrome in this regard it’d easily gain a percent on the market share scale.

You mean laughing in before COVID

Tell grandma with Parkinson’s to “adapt”. While not as ubiquitus a disability as daltonism or blindness, interfaces should still cater to people with them.

When it’s kids adapting it’s fun. When it’s someone with tremors physically incapable of gently and precisely tapping the exact 5px, it’s just bad design.

I’ve yet to see an accessibility setting for this very valid usecase.

Fair. Although, I consider Microsoft’s market “Most laptops” since Apple kind of does its own thing and Chromebooks are ultra-low end laptops. Thus Microsoft gets ~95% of the market for themselves.

Personally, I’d say that’s a clear case of monopoly since MS controls this entire segment of “non-Apple, non-ultra low power laptop, PCs”, but you’re right - there are other players. The thing is, they have relatively tiny niches in which they thrive and in fact pose no threat to the monopolist.

But I now I see how you see it as an oligopoly, which is quite valid.

In practice. Technically, were M$ to go sue users left and right (or send those ISP-style “gotcha”, now pay up) emails.

Luckiy, M$ knows well enough that 90% of that userbase wouldn’t have too many qualms jumping ship if they got slapped with a huge fine, so M$ lets them be.

They value the high userbase more than a quick payout (and rightly so). However, there’s no guarantee that can’t change overnight (just look at Unity and before that, Adobe).

oligopoly

That’s a way to misspell monopoly, alright.

It merely says “go European”, not “go domestic”. Of course you can join!

I’d say one point thirty-two. As others noted, much depends on geography.

Personally, I say the “actual” number up to 3 or 4 decimal places, with a lot of the reason depending on the specific context. If I had to asses, I’d say I say the “whole” number in over 50% of cases for 3 digits, and in about 10% for 4 digits. Anything over 4 decimal places and I fall back to individual digits.

It’s not meaningless - it moves the comment/post a bit higher for others to see on some sorting options. It just isn’t summated per user and obsessed over.

Physicist: All I see is a bunch of particles existing

FYI it’s a toggle in about:preferences (a.k.a. Settings).

There’s nothing against central systems in anarchism, only against central_ized_ ones.

I agree, anarchism is very unlikely to affect any meaningful change. It probably won’t be able to get the critical mass necessary to do things since most anarchists are the laisez-faire type (in the sense they will not “force feed” your ideology - they’ll just tell you it exists and what it is and leave it up to you to decide, NOT in the capitalism sense).

Is that good? Depends on your outlook. It’s always a good defense to let people decide for themselves, but how big of a reason is this for “the anarchist failure”?

The real problem with leftists is the unending infighting. Disagreements on a non-fundamental level have caused many movements to fall into obscurity, and whenever a revolution did happen, it was always an auth-type that got rid of the anarchist types through underhanded means.

Call this wishful thinking, but: It’s only a matter of time until a positive velvet revolution happens with no real ideologue leader that will be based on intelectualism rather than a personality cult and authoritarianism.

Frequently the auth-types took over the means of power by stabbing the anarchists in the back (eg. Stalin).

A revolution, while requiring guns, requires an incredible mass of people from all walks of life to happen - the current means of government must be unworkable for at least a quarter of the population and the vast majority needs to be at least indifferent to the change.

Central organising is a concern, but anarchism isn’t opposed to its very idea, it’s opposed to running the central aspects with an iron fist.

Since that causes silly problems like people desagreeing, the bane of any movement which, if it wants to be successful, absolutely has to get shit done as opposed to endlessly polemicising about meaningless details. Having a meaningful arbitrable solution is a good way to deal with that.

About the media: I agree, western propaganda is bad. But, you have to know this little fact: much of the propaganda (western or otherwise) isn’t created as propaganda - it isn’t created by someone woth the explicit goal of “I have to paint xy as good and z as bad”. Most of it is indoctrinated people creating something they like and want to create. Any such creation follows from the creator’s material conditions, including their outlook on life, which is shaped by propaganda they themselves consumed.

Essentially, Hollywood is a giant echo chamber. The US is. Any other society is, as well. It just depends on how strong the echo isself is - does it die down immidiately or does one sound create an undying cacophony?

While there are pieces of target-created propaganda coming out of Hollywood, I dare say that most are, in fact, unintended propaganda - people come up with stories they like, think up some “what-ifs”, a plot, heroes, villians and conflicts.

With the US being as individualist as it is, no wonder that the vast majority of heroes are solo players, not even fanatical members of an organization. They’re almost always painted in this US-ian individualist manner becuase the artist is a product of the US culture, mentality and media. Hiwever, the same applies to any other place.

A notable counterexample is the priest - be him good or bad, he’s not a “solo player” - he’s always a member of his church and acts accordingly, which isn’t the result of the church’s unending current effort to propagandize all priests as members of a highly hierarchical organization - they did that a long time ago, and it’s paying dividends even now: people know priests to be just “a cog in the machine”.

As the saying goes: don’t attribute to malice what you can to stupidity or ignorance.

Manufactured consent is a hell of a drug.

Typed up on mobile, please forgive any sausage finger induced typos.

I disagree. Wanting to know, researching and googling isn’t a bad thing. Sure, googling does always make the problem seem larger than it is, but other thanthe anxiety there are no ill effects.

Do go to your doctor. Let them take a look at you, and ask for concrete tests. I know a family friend who felt off and had gained weight quite rapidly with no change in lifestyle. She went to the doctor who brushed it off and 6 mo. later she died from a cancer the size of a large infant. The doctor said she should stop worrying about her weight. True story.

Most definitely, this won’t haooen to you, but remember - doctors are human too. They’re also lazy and like to not spend their budget on tests. And then stuff like this happens. It was totally avoidable. The doctor just needed to take a fucking look. She’d have noticed somethig was off. Now she has no job. I’d say I was sad for the doc, but it wasn’t even incompetence that caused this avoidable death, but rather pure laziness.

Morale of the story: Looking out for yourself is not a bad thing. Try not to worry, see a doctor, inquire and ask for a check-up. It takes only a little bit of their time. If they say all is fine without doing jack-shit, call them out on it. Hell, be a Karen if need be - it’s your health on the line, not your kid’s football match causing you to get home 5 minutes later than usual.

Odds are you’ll worry much less when you know you for sure your’re fine than when you have no clue what causes your ailment.