Brennan Hart and The Prophet

The Sir Digby Chicken Caesar song

The To These Gods You Cannot Pray monologue from Hellblade

And if you really need to wake up, this sound effect can be very effective

Your dad.

*Ba-dum-tish*

‘live in fear your whole life.’

My guy, that is a wild way to look at anything. People aren’t germophobic for washing their hands. Are you worried about being seen as weak by a staphylococcus? It can’t be a worry about how humans perceive you because then you’d be sudsing up like a normal person because no one is going to call you a pussy for washing your hands but everyone is going to call you an asshole for not.

Even if you are healthy enough to resist it, it might interest you to know there are people who aren’t, and maybe they don’t want to have to fight off an extra infection because you’re so shit-your-pants terrified of someone calling you weak that you can’t consider their basic needs.

So you wash them before using the restroom then, right?

One way to think of it is, just about anything one can measure about people tends to fit on something like a bell curve, and those curves are related in way re’anging from nearly totally correlated to nearly not at all correlated. People who are more ‘normal’ are those who sit closer to the middle of more of those distributions. This isn’t normative (what should be) just descriptive. (definition)

Looking at the normative structures around this though, becomes a bit fraught at times. A certain amount of regression to the mean helps social cohesion, as you are less likely to have large conflicts if everyone can agree on certain basic facts, principles, and objectives, but too much adherence suppresses innovation and can turn minorities into enemies, which in turn increases conflict and weakens the whole. Where society settles in the spectrum between xenophobic conformist extremism and radical lowercase l libertarianism is one of the fundamental arguments present in every society, everywhere, and in every time.

I don’t have situations that make me read in parallel with someone else, so no.

I do however suspect there might be a sort of ‘clock speed’ to different brains such that the rhythm at which they process can be faster or slower irrespective of ability to reason.

I would agree in some senses, but not others. I maintain that it is good to be precise, and that most people can be taught to be precise, given time and encouragement, and it is only a society that demands everything happen ‘efficiently’ that turns time into a scarcity such that people feel they have to find something ill-considered to say immediately rather than think for a time and find the better way to express what they mean. There are those with a mental handicap, and I wouldn’t expect the same from them that I would from someone less limited, but I will always lose esteem for those who choose speed over truth when the circumstances permit the time, or choose precision incorrectness in the service of themselves at my expense.

I make no claim of objective moral value, but rather the practical value. If one speaks, it is for a purpose. Speaking with the intention of being understood is the most common and speaking with precision serves that purpose. Speaking with the intention of obscuring is generally regarded as a form of lying, and lying can be regarded as a form of violation, akin to dosing someone with a hallucinogen, distorting their perception of reality. Such violations can serve a purpose, but they remain violations, and are generally not to the benefit of the listener. The general regard for someone who harms others for their own benefit, once the harm is recognized, is negative.

If we want to stand back from the structures of social norms, personal interactions, epistemic/ontological stakes, etc. none of it matters, but we don’t get to live in that conceptual space, only visit.

Those are essentially what I am talking about. The speaker should want to be understood, and should make it as easy as possible for the other person to understand them. By choosing to ‘play a different game’ they are going against the cooperative principle, seeking to benefit themselves at the cost of others. The cost may be fairly trivial, like cutting in line costing the person behind only a minute or two, but it absolutely suggests the person doing it is selfish.

In my experience, people often are against random murder, like serial killing, but many will go along with the idea of state-sanctioned murder or ‘defensive’ murder in various forms. The proportion of people who are true pacifists has always been pretty small.

That seems pretty popular out in the world as well, just usually with slightly different selections of ‘sometimes.’

I’ve been trying different flavors on my machines with Nvidia cards. It usually just works well enough for me. Did Garuda for a microsecond, mint for a moment, Ubuntu for a few, and am now trying Debian and Endeavour. I’ve honestly had more issues coming from arch peculiarities than from nvidia. Just give it a go if you have the drive space. It seems like there’s more of a question of how well your chosen flavor meshes with your chosen hardware than one of ‘can I even get this working?’

Dog.

Most forms of slang have a bit of that experience for me. The whole point of language is an attempt to make it possible to transfer information from one person to another. If someone is going to intentionally obscure what they are saying, they’re just being an asshole, making other people do mental work, either so they don’t have to (‘So I was, like, mluh’ instead of ‘I felt angry for being mistreated.’) or just to assert dominance. (using heavily obscurant slang their friend group came up with outside of the group, ‘totes mcgrotes crackin’ being used to mean ‘very horny’)

Tell them I offered a whole $5 more. If that doesn’t get management to scramble for a budget extension, nothing will.

Almost the entire mobile game industry. Copiously available, cheap, hollow, dopamine hunting, etc.

Clearly a disingenuous question.

‘…wait til the users see this!’ said client.

‘Fuck you and the server you run on. We want the old system back. This shit is useless, pointless, and moved the thing I click on most often one line farther down so I keep clicking on this new shit I don’t want.’ - said the users.

‘Look, it’s our most popular feature!’ - said client

Just tossing on: ‘If I have to go blind I want to make your naked body the vision I take with me into the darkness’ sounds like a hell of a compliment, and maybe the basis for a gothic love song/novella.

Little bit of each. It’s a bit of a catch 22 situation. The tipping system enables low wages. The traditional response to a bad system is to try to not participate. But then the underpaid waitstaff are paid worse until the system is changed, and unless a critical mass is reached, no change will happen anyway, so refusing to pay a tip in order to help the staff long-term hurts the staff short-term, and can only be said to be enough to make a change if it’s really hurting them. It sucks as a whole situation.

The Asshole Subsidy. Extra money is taken from the people who are kind enough to worry about the waiter getting paid, effectively giving assholes who choose not to tip a discount.