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That's a really good point. I think it's even possible that my personal experience of lack/grief/loss is 0% present-moment and 100% reflective. Noting of course that this includes reflection on the super-recent past / future.

I had two cats, siblings, growing up. One died unexpectedly. We thought about showing it to the other cat for closure, but decided instead that the cat might interpret it as a Mafia-type threat.

I kind of love the idea that Waymo sees the world as an RPG, and that mundane objects have damage statistics. I hope Tesla knows I do poision damage.

Sony's PSVR2 is essentially just a display, is incredibly lightweight and comfortable, and sends everything down the cable to the console. I think it's possible.

The 'inverted pyramid' - in some ways, its value is emphasised by how we consume media these days. In others (dark patterns, attention economy), it's deliberately ignored.

And alluded to by Marquez.

You're hired!

Democracy and socialism aren't categories of a kind.

Took me longer than it should have to find the API! Cool detail.

Source: Nicolas Cage

The use of two fingers represents the dual natures of Disney Channel and Disney Plus.

People don't run over pedestrians because they smoked a cigarette, either, but church people view smoking in a similar way.

Caricaturing progressive ideas as some linear scale of 0 - Not Woke, 10 - Wokest is such a lame way to avoid the real points being made on a given subject.

"We offered housing to people with complex pyscho-social circumstances on the condition that they will stop having those circumstances. And yet they continued to have them - this was unacceptable."

A whole generation has grown up on CinemaSins et al, and takes hermeneutics to mean finding continuity errors or plotholes.

Saw this recently as the 'Toilet theory of the internet.' [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409671

Top Story: HN users are scrambling to complain about article headlines.

> skill issue

"To each according to his ability. Everyone else suck shit."

ShowHN: Automate your group-chat banter with ChatShitGPT.

It predicted that ripping off this reddit comment would be really, really funny.

You can develop it later in life from head injuries.

I think at some point you either keep the eleven herbs and spices a secret or you don't. This source-available half-in and half-out thing feels pretty flimsy. If your little brother is screen-cheating in Halo, you tape a cardboard divider to the screen.

Isn't it the point of human technologies to bring things as close to zero-effort as possible? Not sure why you need that to sound like an indictment.

It's even better with paragraph breaks!

The cameras at the entrance to the building run some sentiment analysis on your face at 8am.

I used to do this. But be prepared for others to read your marginalia if you lend the book in the future.

Just on a hunch I'd have to guess that being-on-phone isn't cleaving the hemispheres of kids' brains apart.

As Tim Cook famously said, why don't you buy your mom an iPhone and tell her to tell it "Hey AI, I'm going out for a while, please keep track of the speed and distance and watt-hours while I'm riding my e-bike and give me a summary of the total distance and average speed for the times I'm riding the bike and do the same for the times I'm off the bike and walking." It just works.

> culture ... is in denial about death. We hide it away,...

Karl Ove Knausgaard starts one of his books off by talking about this exact thing. He made an interesting observation about how we seem to try to keep death at or below ground level (a morgue will never be on the second floor) - literally but also figuratively.

Yeah the first-person subjectivity has to arise before second and third persons can arise. But with some further investigation, one can find that the things they take to be their subject are in fact object to them, too.