What if addiction is just a negatively associated instance of normal psychological processes?

Intuition is kind of like addition, in the sense that I didn’t ask for it; it simply seems to invade the mind. Intuition can help you get home in the dark — good. Alcohol can make you feel like you feel to drink to be normal — bad. Both cases are invasive thoughts, in a sense, no?

You still haven’t explained why being a foreign head of state is any different than having a job in the US. Your point was their devotion, but so what?

Is your concern that their vote reflects their political beliefs? That’s silly, don’t you think? Of course it reflects their political beliefs.

Is your concern that their political beliefs may reasonably be aligned with the destruction of the US? That’s a bit far fetched, don’t you think?

But regardless, he’s an American. If he wants to destroy the state, shouldn’t he be free to vote that way?

Or, are you concerned that, by acting as head of state, his actions would arguable be that of the state he represents? Meaning… it’s not Leo XIV voting, it’s the Pope?

You don’t make that same conclusion when the president votes, do you?

Should Trump not be allowed to vote because he’s the head of MAGA? Surely MAGA is worse than Pope, right?

I’m really struggling to find the coherency in your perspective. Can you help me out?

At some point, I gotta wonder if they’re claiming it was stolen because they did cheat while their efforts did not work. The logical conclusion for such a person could be: someone must have cheated harder.

They probably had a lot more time on their hands, with a culture where sitting to watch tv was an unavailable form of avoidance entertain.

I can’t imagine this would be too difficult to figure out. Heat with a consistent supply of fuel should burn at about the same temperature, right? So, if you can create separate chambers where heat must travel through a medium like stone before it can heat the next chamber, you can somewhat control the heat… meaning you’ll have chambers of different temperatures, each decreasing as the chamber gets further from the fire source.

There’s probably ways to test the temperature without a thermometer, too. For example, how long does it take a small cup of water to start boiling? If you touch a weed to the side of the chamber, does it instantly light aflame or simply char? Etc.

In my wife’s case, it’s mental and not physical. She doesn’t like being choked. She likes the feeling of my hand around her neck. It’s like a domination kind of thing, or something. In similar vein, she likes being called a good girl.

There is no oxygen deprivation going on.

My wife likes when I grab her neck. I am an introverted duck kind of guy, okay? Not your ”Im gonna choke you while I fuck you” kind of guy.

While learning how to do this appropriately, I had squeezed too hard once and killed the mood. 🤷‍♂️

It’s more of a grab, firm hand… not really choke.

If he’s a vegetable like the GOP McWhatever guy, we should force precedent that he’s still the acting president until death. No Vance. Just Vegetable In Chief.

I’m gonna need to find this comment in ten years. Wish me luck

Hiding stuff in client side software never stopped being an arms race between the producer and consumer. LG TVs are a great example.

Yeah, but if the big company wants to embed weird shit in their client software… A frontier model can reverse engineer the client, determine what satisfied the authentication request, and replicate the implementation elsewhere on our own terms. Can do this with less than $100 worth of compute. I know because I’m already compiling/sideloading iOS apps with Xcode on my Gentoo desktop — Apple can eat shit.

I’m aware of the the suite including LibreOffice. It’s not popular with exactly the user base we’re concerned with here. Mostly because of aesthetic and integrations. If you dumped a hundred thousand dev hours into it, I’m sure it could find its way there. Otherwise, it’s still an excellent choice for who would otherwise be Linux users anyhow.

However, LibreOffice shouldn’t have to copy Microsoft. It would be ashame if it did too much.

This project, on the other hand, is precisely doing a clean room copy of Microsoft’s (et al) software. Not only does it go further as a drop-in replacement, but it’s also a form of protest in itself.

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So who’s going to go ahead and reverse engineer drop in replacements for all the proprietary tech that keeps these oligarch money engines alive on consumer and business markets for professional software protected by giant moats of development work?

From how I see the situation: same people as before: nobody.

I gladly welcome this AI slop. It doesn’t hurt us. Actually the opposite. This shit is a thorn in the side of the worst companies. Particularly, companies that are also shoving AI down our throats. Let’s shove a little AI down their throats for once, huh?

Desperately looks for a cranberry pun…

Desperately looking for a cranberry pun…

Maybe aim confused, but I thought the California billionaire tax was being applied based on historic address. So changing shouldn’t matter, no? Maybe I’m wrong.

Wait a few billion years, the sun will show who’s big dog around here.

Your theory presumes that people will continue to sustain grain on finite resources, to the point of collapse when those resources are gone. Do you have any evidence supporting such a specific outcome, or are you glooming over theoretical possibilities that would require a consensus in ignorance toward sustainability up to the very end?

Makes sense. I have seen too many cave diving videos.

Wouldn’t you have less control over a thruster, though? I’m kind of seeing this like powered steering.