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Our home is hardwood, except for the stairs. Of course they keep yaking down the stairs, why wouldn’t they?

I feel like The Dragon Speech is relevent here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074

Overall it’s a fantastic speech that is well worth a watch, but I found the relevent parts here: https://www.erasmatazz.com/library/the-journal-of-computer/jcgd-volume-6/i-had-a-dream.html

Suppose that, instead of giving a lecture to 170 people as I did at the conference, I were to meet with each of them individually. Suppose I took one person off into a little room and there we had an interactive conversation instead of an expository lecture.

…then my partner would be involved. The juices would be flowing faster, his mind would be going a mile a minute, and he’d learn a lot more, wouldn’t he? From my point of view, I’d be getting my point across a lot more effectively, wouldn’t I? But the problem was, there were 170 people in that lecture room, and only one of me, and if I used the interactive method, I’d still be conversing with individuals. The expository method is so much more efficient.

And that is the nature of the problem. The interactive conversation is effective, but the expository lecture is efficient…every communicator has been forced to sacrifice effectiveness for efficiency – until now. Because now we have a technology that changes all that. With the computer, I can take my ideas and express them in the form of algorithms, and then I can code those algorithms in a program, and put that program on a floppy disk, and then we can mass produce that disk. We can make millions of copies of that disk and spread it all over the world so that millions of people can play my game. They can interact with my ideas. Because they are interacting, I achieve effectiveness. Because we are mass producing the disks, I achieve efficiency. This is the revolutionary significance of the computer. It allows us to have both effectiveness and efficiency.

It’s been many years since I’ve been in a classroom, but I feel like we could and should have a highly advanced system for individualizing education in a way that works with most learning styles.

I find some sites like that, but for the most part, if not having JS breaks the site, then I just move on. It’s very rare that there is only one website where I can find the information that I need.

I also have it set up so that it’s just one button to re-enable JS, so it’s quick and easy to turn on if I decide to do so.

I’ve gone to disabling JS by default, and only whitelisting sites that I want. It’s made things much simpler for me.

“Here is 300 pieces of information for your working memory, only 6 of which are actually relevant to what you need.”

vs

“Here is a list that you can filter/sort/reference/etc at your convenience”

And the people I work with still can’t understand why so many of us hate meetings.

I’d also recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream_Color

Your intentional mis-representing of my reply doesn’t mean that I missed anything.

Simply not having Trump (who practically wants everyone in Gaza killed, wants Muslim bans, licks Netanyahu’s boots, chose to officially recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel, relocated US embassy to Jerusalem) is better.

Trump being worse than Harris does not mean that Harris wouldn’t have done the same thing. I do not disagree that Trump is worse, but that’s not what we were talking about.

Not understanding FPTP voting when it’s been explained ad nauseum is unbelievably stupid. No, your claim is false. You believe falsehoods.

Can you point out what I said that was a falsehood? Because, nothing I said in that statement is false. It was indeed possible to vote against Trump, and also vote against the Democrats. FPTP has nothing to do with how that works. A vote for a third party can be a vote against both.

Only votes to a mainstream party candidate can beat the other mainstream party candidate.

This is a falsehood. If a non-mainstream candidate got enough votes, they would win against a mainstream party candidate.

lolwut?

Why would voting for Democrats have stopped the people in Gaza from being killed? The Democratic leadership is literally the reason that Palestine is the way it is, and Harris said that she saw nothing wrong with that, implying that she would have continued on supporting the Genocide.

Believe it or not, it was possible to vote against Trump, but also vote against the Democrats.

Here’s how you get more progressive’s in office: Stop voting for parties that fight against progressives.

It seems pretty obvious that, for a Genocide, we should blame the Genocide supporters, AKA, the Democrat and Republican leadership

Also, teens get ahold of their parent’s credit card, and “totally swear” that they never purchased anything with it.

Yes. Porn has a lot of chargebacks. It is a “business of regretful purchases”, lol.

People think that purchases won’t show up on their bill, but when it does, they lie about it, and try to get it reversed.

I can’t say for certain, but it screams “middle-management justifying their MBA salary” to me.

Yeah, but if I fix this one line of code, then the system will work and everything will be automated and my time spent on all of this won’t have been a giant waste, right?.. Right?

lol, I used to do this to my cats all the time when they yawned.

Angry looks followed. Totally worth it.

Not usually. I don’t typically look too much at the instances I’m interacting on to know if they care about reports or not.

I generally tag people who are being shitty. It’s totally fine if they disagree with me about things, or downvote me or whatever. But if they just insult others, or openly lie/mislead, or yell at others without bringing an actual argument, then they start getting tags. After enough tags, they get blocked.

The good news is, you have no tags! :)

I love horror movies. Gory, scary, disturbing, gross, high quality, low quality… doesn’t matter, I’m down. But I hate jump-scares, and too many horror games rely on jump-scares. It makes sense since it’s an interactive medium, and jumps have their place, but designers rely on it way too much.

I love it when I have a mouse. It’s terrible on modern touchpads though :(

Yup, we are mostly in agreement. I will push back on this though:

Because voting is one of the least effortful political action that can be taken

For a lot of people, taking a day off work, to spend hours in line at a polling booth, while voter intimidation is kind of allowed, is a lot of effort. Especially when you factor in that they need to spend time researching the candidates and issues they’ll be voting on. I’ve lived in places where even getting registered was a huge pain, and took a lot of time. Where I currently live, voting is super easy, and I appreciate that, and I think it’s less of an excuse. But for a lot of people, it does take a lot of effort, and I find not voting in those circumstances more understandable.