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And I wholeheartedly apologise for my small part in that, having worked in advertising [(until Bill Hicks saved me)].

I was “just doing my job”, to the best of my abilities, for my client. Maximally manipulating minds… And that was about 25 years ago, before all the datamining cold-reading hypno tech these days. Me and my guy, our meagre team of two, with our non-existent budget, we changed the culture… Now imagine what those with the tech today, and the budget of billions and trillions could do to people… Especially those who are completely oblivious and not actively trying to avoid the manipulations.

They’ll deprive you of all wealth, and all free volition, if given a chance.

it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people’s upbringing affects each generations’ behaviors and mannerisms.

I do not know how it sounds like that to you. Seems a strong non sequitur. Maybe I’m missing something. Care to elaborate how you made this leap?

I think you had the better version straight out of the gate.

I’m happier with non-belief, than squirming through the exercise of deciding what to believe and disbelieve under the unchecked presumption that we must believe something.

Even more so for the distinct “believing in” something.

if the universe has an infinite lifespan (as current models suggest) then we would almost certainly be Boltzmann brains

Sounds like presuming some place further along in an infinite set. We may still be in an early iteration at the start, as plain as it seems.

Too many cut themselves on Occam’s razor, incorrectly presuming all else equal.

Though I imagine he paid more attention to the cymatic cromulence.

Where would we find the citation you say is needed, for what you do not believe?

The map is not the terrain.

Somewhere between naive realism and “some stupid past time fun”, there are maps.

I like maps. I like puzzles. Astrology’s both.

First got intrigued when in my ignorant militant atheism dogma phase, and someone managed to discern my sun sign, just by my appearance and behaviours. I have since gone on to do the same to others, typically with as much world-view-changing astonishment in them as I experienced.

Can’t be bunk if that can be done.

The observable profiling reality of it, does open minds to wondering about what’s the astrological weather like.

Maybe can cure some diseases.

Even just via the comfort provided. Comfort enough, to get into a parasympathetic dominant mode long enough for the body to heal itself.

Big Tuning Fork are lying to us!

Not entirely their own free volition.

Primed, used as problem-reaction-solution patsies.

So glad to see that the state of Linux as a technology is now such that people in their very late 60’s who are almost entirely non-technical can not only use a Linux system as a daily driver on more than one computer, but enjoy using it :)

It’s been my impression that it has been like that for at least 23 years, when I started using it.

There has just been a lot of misinformation smearing it as somehow hard, or only for technically minded people. Never been hard for me, and I don’t consider myself technically minded, but, others do, in circular reasoning [because I use linux, I must be technically minded, ~] that it’s hard to disabuse them of, until you get them sat in front of some linux systems, and they can see for themselves how cushy the community have made it for them, in any of many ways.

It’s the freedom that matters. Not the kernel. Not the convenience of better software. The licenses. Free to use, study, share, change, as you wish. That’s a lot of wide open innovation potential, from that essential 4 freedoms. We got here because of those freedoms. And we’ve been here a long time. [Decades]. They tried to smear freedom, fearing they’d lose their abuse victims. Bye bye corporate proprietary software developers. The truth’s getting out… Freedom’s here, and it’s nice. No abuse gets to persist, when we’re free to create a version of the thing doing the abuse, with the abuse removed. :)

I don’t think anyone should be smoking that.

Just what I was going to say. Yup.

Thanks.

It seemed implausible that it’d have had that many “community notes”.

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what this mean?

Is Windows FOSS now?

Couldn’t help but read that title in the voice of the young John Connor, asking “Aren’t they our friends now?”

Reading other replies here, I realise, I miss policeman. It was the best web cruft blocker add-on. Really easy non-fiddly high-fidelity controls over what you allow from where. IIRC, last release was 2015, but I think more recently the developer [Edit:Link]asked somewhere if people were interested in it being revived[/E].

[Edit: No, seriously, it was really really good. https://www.ghacks.net/2014/10/19/policeman-is-a-rule-based-add-on-for-firefox-to-control-web-requests/ … I suppose, it’s worth vibe-coding a continuation of https://github.com/futpib/policeman (<- I presume’s the right one). ]