Jesus just couldn’t remember names.
“Uhm, hey there, uh… Rocky, yeah I call you the Rock because…um… You’re going to be the rock I build my church on! Yeah, that’s it.”
“Hey you, uh… Stinky.”
“My name’s Andrew.”
“Yeah, right, Stinky. Note this down. This dude over here is The Rock. Nicknames for everyone!”
Santos is now offering 55% off his Cameo videos, meaning for $150, he will record himself saying just about anything.
I wonder if you could pay him $150 to admit he threatened a reporter.
While I certainly understand someone who feels threatened and doesn’t want to become another cautionary tale about misjudging fascists capacity for murder, I’m concerned that the exodus of people who oppose the regime just further solidifies their hold.
It also increases the risk for those left behind who can’t leave.
If you’re leaving because you expect to die if you stay, then godspeed to you. If you’re leaving because you’d rather go someplace where you can pretend it doesn’t affect you, then fuck you.
US criticism:
“No. No. Not like that. Like this!”
“Excuse me?”
“They said you just gotta feel it.”
“I don’t think this is what they meant.”
"You don’t know that.’
“Fair enough. Carry on.”
(the conversation I made up in my head, now typed out for you all to share)
Uptight Europeans are too focused on their own shitting to offer a nice how-do-you-do to the person in the next stall!
Americans aren’t so privacy obsessed that we wouldn’t be working to offer someone a handshake while on the shitter. Maybe a little bit of footsie under the stall walls. It’s all just being friendly.
The U.S. was never given independence.
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t asking for it. It was stating it as established fact:
“We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”
It would have been different if Britain had won the war, but they didn’t.
It would have been nice if we managed to do better with the independence we have, but that doesn’t change the reality.
I think you may be confusing “satisfying” with “sane”.
Unfortunately, the sane response is to try to help even the incredibly dumb people from the consequences of their actions, if only to limit the impact on the rest of society. If treatment isn’t covered, then they won’t seek treatment, their disease will get worse, and it will spread further.
I posted above, but it is a real product:
3D Systems Cube 2 3D Printer:
That appears to be the 3D Systems Cube 2 3D Printer:
We have a pretty good simulation of free will, but we don’t actually have free will.
What we have is Chaos. It looks like free will.
Close enough for government work as they say. It’s not like it makes a difference.
Unless the system is automatically adjusting lenses in the headset based on what point in virtual space the user is focusing on to make sure the lenses in their eyes are focused where the binocular vision is saying they are looking, they’d have the same trouble.
Interesting.
One of the things my wife did was vision training. She had a computer with VR glasses that people would use to exercise their binocular vision to help them keep their eyes aligned correctly.
Now, that’s not fixing the myopia, but if the muscles that point your eyes aren’t working well, they’ll spasm, and you won’t be able to focus.
That is another point my wife mentioned when we were talking about it. People think they can’t see because they can’t focus, but they really can’t focus because they are working so hard to keep their eyes aligned properly that the muscles spasm. So, she could “fix the myopia” by fixing the binocular vision problem.
It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that a doctor said it wasn’t possible, because my wife would encounter patients on both ends of the spectrum: some who were told VT didn’t work and they had to buy glasses, and others who were told VT was the solution and they had to do dozens of sessions costing many hundreds of dollars.
My wife would charge them for a couple training sessions in person so they knew what to do, then let them do the exercises at home (obviously not using VR at home).
Part of my wife’s problem is she was ethical. In the last full year she worked before going on disability, her total take home (as the owner) was around $6k.
Different people will have different degrees of trouble.
My guess is that you’d have problems when you tried to see in the real world.
Edit: I checked in with the wife while I was making my lunch. She says yes, if you put the time and effort into training yourself to see “properly” with VR, you’ll have trouble seeing in the real world.
VR headsets, 3D TVs, and 3D movies all have the same issue as far as strain is concerned.
Our brains expect our eyes to focus on what they’re pointing at. If your eyes are pointing at something nearby, we focus near. If we’re pointing at something far away, we focus far.
All the various 3D solutions have a fixed distance and fake the 3D by having each eye get a slightly different angle on the image. The mismatch between where our eyes are pointing and where they are focused can cause problems.
Until 3D reaches the level of a Star Trek Holodeck, it’s going to cause trouble. Ok for a short time, but you wouldn’t want to spend all day doing it.
(this is all me paraphrasing what my eye doctor wife told me, so don’t expect me to know any more about it)
We appear to be working on proving Schopenhauer’s theory.
I have LGB trains from my youth.
I always dreamed of setting up a garden railway. When I bought my house, I expected to do it.
We’ve been here 29 years. No railway. No time.
If I can ever retire…
Had?