Thank you for bringing the detail and tone I was going to type. You covered so many good points. It's nice to see someone outside the tech-heavy, privacy-hyperaware echo chamber.
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The propaganda works well when it the smog goes into the air and comes down as a natural occurrence beyond our control, especially when it disproportionately affects those eastward in the Jetstream. You know, the north/mid Atlantic coastal elites (just don't mention Appalachian Pennsylvania)
This reminds me of how I just flew through India, saw pro-coal ads crediting Modi in the airport, and then walked out into all-winter smog that smells like burning hydrocarbons.
It's on the internet forever, but whatever the regular user needs is lost behind poor content indexing and incompetent search functions
The Hudson River is still icing NYC. There's still snow visible in the Times Square live cam on rooftops (as opposed to where workers have likely been shoveling for tourists relentlessly). Looks like it only hit 41F today and has seen single digits in the last week. The snow bands have been very narrow in this last storm surge.
So anyway, look a little further north for the snow. Despite the movie tropes, NYC is never really a winter wonderland.
And now that I see "ice coast" is the name for icy east coast ski slopes, I've found Camelback just claimed they have enough snow to last into May
It's fine. To add to it, I couldn't edit my own comment yesterday to highlight why I went in a different direction. Now I have. It's not the first time I've been called AI because I write lengthy things about topics in which I'm knowledgeable. Xkcd.com/3126
They slowly ditched better services for convenience. The account/login struggle is the barrier to entry that myspace/facebook/discord "solved". A unique login for each forum, a different set of rules between each, some auto-deletion of supposedly inactive accounts, no photo hosting capability until death bed, yet another set of credentials for the latest photo host, and so on. Nothing was immediate because it took time to build the replacement communities and libraries. The problem is, it took years to realize how inaccessible the information became.
It's fine to highlight it's correlation, but your guess is a theory of causation. It's likely either some genetic combo that drives the desire for coffee or some lifestyle arrangement that drives the need.
Even the idea that an inactive mind leads to deterioration isn't definitively causation. Correlation goes both ways. Are they mentally healthy because they're mentally active? Or are they mentally active because they're mentally healthy? The degree of mental deterioration goes up as you age, which is also when you can retire, when you don't have to support your family, when you're physically incapacitated, and when you slow down overall. So yeah, I plan to stay active because I'll take my chances that it helps, but at some point, something will simply break. Maybe I'll inherit the dimentia. Maybe I'll inherit the neuropathy. Maybe both. Maybe neither.
Eh, never mind. You've got it figured out. You are above the algorithm, above the predatory UI, above the ruthless drive by corporations to manifest addiction. Modern platforms are no smarter than 1980s Chess AI and phones are only as manipulative as a light switch. Your suggested media feeds are purely your own making. Carry on.
I didn't say you or your question was stupid. I explained why that assumption isn't right
No point saying the same thing already stated 20 other times here. I went after the opening statement because it's demonstrably inaccurate
You're welcome to that interpretation. I saw no point adding a 20th version of the same answers everyone else focused on. I went after the opening statement.
as a human woman, which represents a greater imminent threat?
No. This is NOT the takeaway. The bear is clearly the statistically-imminent threat (let's say a brown bear to ensure it's hostile and deadly). The point is that you know exactly what the bear will try to do: kill you. You don't have to greet it, you don't have to worry about it's intentions, you don't have to worry that your social interaction may push the bear over the edge, you don't have to worry about hurting it's feelings and risk making it a threat, you don't have to worry about sending mixed signals, you don't have to worry about your clothing choice, and you certainly, certainly don't have to worry about it raping you without witnesses. It simply is a violent threat. You use bear spray and hope you can run far enough, fast enough. You don't get to make that immediate reaction to a man, between compassion for the innocent, societal pressure to not ostracize men, and legal repercussions if you get it wrong.
Edit: I saw no point in adding a 20th version of how locks are made. I instead opted to tackle a separate misconception in the opening statement.
"Made on the same assembly line means it's the same product" is a myth from people who have no experience in manufacturing/sourcing and are just mad about inflation and do not have a professional interest in the product. The specs are rarely the same. There are often typically significant differences in material, tooling, QA/QC, and warranty. Yes, there are plenty of examples where the upcharge is not justified, but it's neither the rule nor the exception. It varies wildly across the market. I have my places where I buy premium, I have my places where I buy bottom tier.
For the common end user of household products, the closest they'll get to understanding this is buying the Amazon, Alibaba, or Temu "version" of something. There will be a dozen differences that make the product worse. Maybe that's fine for your use. If you think all toothbrushes are the same, try the free ones from a hotel. The handles are small, weak, and usually have sharp mold parting lines. But sure, they were likely made at the same place that made the $6 Colgate because the bristle-placing machine is the most important part of the process.
Meanwhile, towards the other end, a casual household end user will likely never exceed the capability of a hardware store wrench, so they'll think it's insane to pay more for a Snap-on at 4x the price. But it makes a difference to someone using and abusing it 8x a day, depending on its function to get paid. If it does break, the warranty replaces it immediately. Lifetime warranties from non-professional brands are notorious for stating it's the lifetime of the product, not your lifetime, and it expired when it broke or wore out.
At the extreme end would be something like aircraft parts. The "same" bolt at the local store is 1/20 the price. But the aircraft bolt is a higher grade (more expensive), has much tighter tolerances (more money spent on control, higher scrap rate), has backing traceability documentation (money spent on labor and tracking systems), and is likely checked 100% to dimensional spec (money spent on labor and time). You could find the same bolt at the store. You will find a bolt that's almost the same. You may find a bolt that's completely wrong. None of that uncertainty is allowable in an aircraft bolt. Those "minor defects here and there" like your toothbrush claim are not acceptable, so systems must be in place to prevent them from escaping. You order a bolt, you get the bolt you ordered. Hundreds of lives depend on it.
You've never come across something and view it out of curiosity? The algorithms love when you branch out like that.
You're being amazingly condescending to people being abused and guided by the algorithms, acting like you're above it. You're not. I actively fight these curated feeds with alternate private browsers and sometimes going as far as using a VPN just to see what something is about, yet it's not foolproof and there's a reason ti's their ein the first place. It's not just your viewing choices. It's clear that you get put into various categorizations and the algorithms keep your feed fresh by suggesting content that other people who watched the videos you watched have also watched. You think your science-based category is safe, but it's not. You're 3 clicks away from conspiracy theories flooding your feed by way of "here's how flat earthers explain gravity" because your chosen video, the bridge video, and the conspiracy videos are all using the same keywords. You're not noticing all the "harmless" unrelated suggested content from the games you don't play like Factorio, Stardew, Hollow Knight, No Man's Sky, or Star field but it's there, just as predatory, seeing where you'll bite. The overlapping keywords and viewerships are there. It's exactly the same situation.
This category association is how people get drawn into deep, dark corners. This is how segmented conspiracy groups converge. This is how the manosphere becomes an echo chamber. This is how self-harm and self-hate content puts someone in a hole by themselves. So many users aren't even aware of how curated their feed is. They come to believe "everyone thinks this" because there's 100 videos sitting there waiting for them to "freely" choose their next clip.
You're acting morally superior without an actual understanding of what these platforms are designed to do. They do not give a fuck about your health or morals. All they want is your attention, your addiction, because time spent on their platform is participation taken away from 20 other major platforms.
The smelled your CO2 plume and saw your heat concentration
The angle is wrong and the brake pedal sits a bit higher up/closer to you than the gas pedal. In practice, my left foot tends to continually tap the brake due to this while also tiring my left hip inductor muscle, though I'm sure this would be fixed with practice. If you see a car randomly tapping their brake lights without ever slowing down or holding them on while accelerating, chances are, their left foot is hovering on the brake a little too close. Holding the gas isn't such a big deal because you're already holding it all the time. Oscillating between 35-40% gas isn't as noticeable as 0-5% brake, especially with flashing the lights.
From a safety standpoint, while youd be able to get a ~250ms advantage by having your left foot ready on the brake, you're not going to leave it there. It's probably going to rest on the foot rest like it always does because the floorboard is arranged like that to hold a neutral leg position. While this kills the speed advantage, it also loses another major advantage: positive placement of your feet. When you use your right foot for the gas, you know exactly where the brake pedal is in relation. When you float your right foot against your seat to flex your knee, you lose that positive location. If you have to panic brake, you now only have a pretty good idea where the brake pedal is. It works out 99.999% of the time. When it doesn't, we get videos of "runaway" cars plowing through buildings. It's usually someone mistakenly mashing the gas pedal because they lost their foot location references. So while you could train your left foot, it has to cover twice the distance - more room for error. It's also pretty cramped in there with current designs, so when I've tried exsctly this, I had a tendency for my right foot on the gas to cause interference with the brake pedal being depressed.
There's definitely times in racing where left foot braking is used at times when you need gas and/or brake in rapid, planned succession/concurrence. Yes, there's times for gas and brake together. Most cars are 2 wheel drive, all cars are 4 wheel brake. This means you can alter the balance of the car by applying both pedals. I've driven 40mph go karts with left foot brakes. Even though I lay competitive lap times, I don't think the left brake is a significant contributor. It's just a compact design choice rather than a performance point. The pedal heights are equal though, unlike normal cars. But that's not to say it's a bad design, just that normal cars aren't designed that way, so the benefits are lost, or even become a hindrance. Perhaps the pedal box design is a carryover from when the standard transmission was standard
I take it you've probably never used isopropyl and definitely have never played with isopropyl fire. Few flammable things are safer than isopropyl. You should avoid paper with that mindset because at least the alcohol evaporates at a far, far lower temperature than that that causes autoignition. Even when I've lit pools of it on fire, it's easy to blow it out. It's a short-lived flame because, again, it evaporates as fast as it burns. It doesn't get used as fuel for any normal heat source.
You realize IPA is used in all kinds of cleaners for both household and medical needs, right?