yariik

There is no racism in Central or South America, it's an invention exclusive to its homeland, the US.

Yeah you can bet that the 8000$ per m3 gas delivered from Qatar via the United States is going to become very popular, after Gasprom is no longer able to receive payments from its customer, and subsequently stops all of its supply to Europe. Well, this new $8000 gas will surely have molecules of freedom in it, unlike that authoritarian Putin's gas. But for how long will Europeans be willing to put up with prices like this?

Who are "they"? The Donbass milita? They have been engaging in various forms of combat with the Ukrainian forces multiple times since the ceasefire in 2015. This is not news. Stop reading and watching garbage media outlets (that, unfortunately, could be applied to all mainstream media of the US and Europe today).

That's the definition of fascism. The fusion of corporate and state power to crush any dissent.

Go away with your useless new technology and let people (aka "assholes", as you called them) use what they like.

You can't play modern vinyl on a gramophone. Well, technically you can, but you'll just destroy the record. You need shellac records if you want to play them on a gramophone, and the last one was produced maybe in the 40s.

whale classification chapter

Thanks, looks like a book I would enjoy, I'll read it now.

The EULA is still an agreement.

I can't agree to anything that is impossible for me to understand or even to read.

Nobody ever in Russia gets prosecuted for doing anything to any software for their own personal use. And actually there's been very few cases when someone was prosecuted let's say for using pirated software for their business. A couple of guys got unlucky and that's basically it.

And this is how it should be everywhere, the copyright model was beneficial for the society maybe up until 300 years ago. Today, the whole copyright thing is bizarre.

This blaming Russia thing is way beyond ridiculous now. WHAT "Russian corruption" are you talking about? Is it the same as the "Russian interference in the US elections," i.e. something that has never existed in reality and was just invented by the US mass media for their purposes?

What's 'racist'?

Environmental toxins?

Almost. It's the plastics.

Possible toxicity of something that we deem safe could be an explanation.

Plastics.

How did you arrive to this conclusion?

A significant number of ill people is only in Moscow and a couple of other cities, and they are doing good if you compare them to other cities in the world with the same population.

Problem is, that they did it unannounced.

No, the entire thing is the problem. Windows 10 can still open applications that were compiled in 1994, and it doesn't make it less secure.

Apple uses the same tools you do.

No. A special directory can be created at the root of the file system called /AppleInternal. Then, if you work at Apple, you can put some special files there that do stuff. I've read somewhere that they are able to easily disable all of this privacy protection crap and other annoying stuff.

I hope Apple currently has a team focused on macOS perf.

Apple doesn't give a fuck about macOS since 2015.

there are things US entities still say and do that can be valuable and trusted

Yeah, sure. For some reason, the US enjoys some special privileges when it comes to the international politics.

How long has the Russiahoax been going, five years? For five years, every single media outlet in the US attacks attacks my country and blames it of all sorts of criminal activity, while not a single piece or evidence has been presented.

And for some reason, most of the Americans that I've talked to don't see any problem with that and won't call their government russophobic, so much for your "different views."

Why should anybody believe anything said by an American anymore?

Well, it's not just channel deletion anymore, soon they'll be able to deny thought criminals access to their money (in other words, steal their money).

It'll eventually come to the point where thought criminals won't be able to get police protection or get healthcare.

We live in a society, I guess.

By the way, about

the risks

It seems that, for some reason, people have a skewed perception of the risks that involve using psychoactive substances.

For example, people who consider using a psychedelic drug (like LSD) for the first time, always tend to worry about losing control of their mind as a result of using the drug, and stuff like that.

Yeah, sure there is a risk, but actually there could far more greater physiological risks. Like, your blood pressure or body temperature could get too high, etс.

Okay, so you're saying that a dozen other games that I like to play sometimes are going to magically start working after I wait for six months before updating to the new macOS version?

These games are not even that old, released from 2010 to 2016 or so. And Catalina won't let me play them, because some asshole decided that I'll be fine without them, and removed 32 bit support from the OS.

Meanwhile, I can still play games from 1995 on Windows 10 without any problems.

Welcome to the SDAM club friend. It was very difficult for me after I found that I have that, hope it won't be like that for you, or better, that you don't actually have it.

You sound like me. I've always wondered how the hell do people tell all these stories about their life in such a great detail, while I was struggling with remembering what I did yesterday. Then I learned that I have aphantasia. It was a mind blowing discovery, but it didn't affect me much, I just found it to be an interesting topic to think about sometimes.

Then, I found out about SDAM, and I was utterly devastated. I basically don't have memory when compared to other people. I can learn knowledge about something, but I can't actually remember anything, because for other people, remembering involves "re-living" that situation almost as though as if it was happening again.

SDAM stuff completely drives me crazy, as I feel that I'm missiog out on a something that is fundamental to the human life. So I just try not to think about SDAM further, and pretend that it's all a joke and everybody's experience is exactly as mine.

If someone asked you what your favorite scene in a movie is, how would you respond?

I won't be able to respond, because I have no idea.

If you show me, like, a catalogue with screenshots of 50 different movie scenes from the movies I watched, I could tell you which of these 50 scenes I like the most right now.

It would seem to me that fiction books would be exceptionally boring if I was not able to visualize what I was reading.

Yes, they are. I've always tried to "read more", and after reading something, I was usually confused of how a book that everyone praises so highly is extremely dull to me.

But now, after I found out about the aphantasia staff, it's clear to me that maybe 80% of the books are written for people who can visualize, by authors whose intent was to express themselves in a way that promotes visual imagery.

If you take that away, most books are useless for me. They don't have a compelling story, and their purpose is to make the process of reading enjoyable. For me, on the other hand, the process of reading is irrelevant. When I read books, I'm looking for compelling stories and interesting concepts. For something to think about AFTER I've read the book.

My favorite book is 1984. The Lord of the Rings books are usually praised by people, but I'll spend a better time reading news than reading The Lord of the Rings.

"The protagonist tries to challenge an authoritarian government and ends up in prison, being lectured about the politics" is a far more meaningful and relatable story, than "The protagonist manages to destroy a certain ring, which somehow makes the evil god go away."

"So, I need to write about what happens to Sam and Frodo after they destroy the ring. Maybe they get stranded on the volcano and barely manage to survive, until a group of soldiers finds them and takes them to a safe place? Nah, it'll be too boring to imagine. Maybe the ancient aliens suddenly drop from the sky and rescue our heroes on their epic space ships made of dragons? Awesome, but it'll be too absurd. So, maybe the eagles appear, and Sam and Frodo fly on them? Perfect, it'll make this scene very enjoyable to imagine, while not being too farcical."

If someone asked you to draw a sketch of your bedroom, could you? what would you be basing it on?

I could do it. I know my bedroom, and I'll start by drawing some basic lines and details, then I'll look at the drawing to compare it with my knowledge of the bedroom, maybe erase something, maybe add something, and repeat - until I know that I drew the best possible representation of what I know about my bedroom.

The thing with drawing is that I have to have the KNOWLEDGE about what I'm drawing in my conscious mind to be able to draw the thing.

For example, I'll recognize Obama if I look at a photo of him. But if you ask me to draw Obama, I won't be able to do it now, because I have no idea how specific features of him should look like. I can study Obama's portrait for some time, and then I'll be able to draw a better picture of him. But still, I won't be able to draw an accurate representation of him without a reference photo of him.