oeuf
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- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 1 week ago:
This is a good question and I’ll be interested to see what others have to say. One thing I’ve noticed is that memories can transform into ‘memories of memories’. What I remember is not the felt impression of something but what I subsequently told or showed myself about it. And it doesn’t even just apply to childhood - I have same thing for big events in my life from last couple of years.
I do find that it’s possible to consciously dig deeper and unearth forgotten memories though.
I’ll also add that I think what constitutes a sense of ‘self’ is more than just memory.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
If there is a third world war I think either everyone will lose in one day (nuclear weapons), or it will be sabotage and ‘special military operations’ everywhere for decades, and not named as a world war until later.
- Comment on how to dust properly 1 week ago:
You need to wipe it onto a bigger ostrich
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 1 week ago:
It seems to be a way for people to have a paywalled blog without building their own website.
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 2 weeks ago:
Fine.
Renationalise and redistribute wealth though.
- Comment on Can we go back to 2019? 2 weeks ago:
1990sImage
- Comment on UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow 2 weeks ago:
Trump’s biggest legacy will be the global shift to open source. His second biggest legacy will be the decline the US empire.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
For sure.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps expensive briefly but the overall savings would be colossal.
- Comment on NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages 3 weeks ago:
What exactly was formerly open source? I think the NHS has the more to gain from open source than almost anyone else I can think of. Incidentally they are also sitting on possibly the most valuable dataset on the planet.
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 3 weeks ago:
Microwave maketh flat.
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 4 weeks ago:
What’s the job just out of curiosity?
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, just because you can do something for an interview doesn’t mean you will do it again repeatedly for years on end.
- Comment on Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high? 4 weeks ago:
Pigeons roosting in the chimney gonna get real thirsty.
- Comment on UK is ‘unwelcoming’ and ‘racist’ for overseas NHS health workers, warns top doctor 4 weeks ago:
They are already moving onto people with mental health problems like spectrum disorders. After that they will have people who are physically disabled and, as always, women.
They will never run out of ‘others’ to blame. It’s better to confront them on the economy, which there is only one of and is already getting destroyed by policies they want to extend.
- Comment on The truth behind the UK's so-called 'millionaire exodus' 5 weeks ago:
It’s worse: they are bidding everything up and making it more expensive for everyone else.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 5 weeks ago:
Am I missing something in the thought process here? Surely removing encryption just makes the entire UK uniquely vulnerable to having their messages read not just by UK intelligence but anyone. It doesn’t make any sense.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 5 weeks ago:
The more you think about it the more capitalism looks like a death cult.
- Comment on UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age 1 month ago:
I’m against this for the surveillance and meddling in people’s private lives but I’m also for it because a) kids are getting fucked up by internet and, most of all, b) I like thinking about how MPs are probably oblivious to how burdensome this will be for google and apple to implement and the precedent it would set for every government being able to demand their own set of mods. It’s beautiful.
- Comment on ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ 1 month ago:
Why am I seeing Permaculture in my feed but when I click through I’m getting Biodynamics? Is this Schrödinger’s .gif?
- Comment on Oldest evidence of deliberate fire use found in England 1 month ago:
Looking forward to Al Murray finding out about this.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Weird. I thought it must have some kind of xenophobia connection judging by the reaction.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
I’ve noticed that but have no idea why - can you explain?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Been happily hosting my stuff on it for three years now, with no previous experience 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I prefer stories of random white dudes being in places they had no business being in because they went from their childhood home in the countryside to the big city, met the wrong people while they were drunk and woke up there with sunburn and knowledge of a great number of sea shanties.
- Comment on How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy 1 month ago:
It used to be possible to live and work in much of the UK without a car. Where I live it is now basically impossible, unless you have a remote job, get food delivered and completely withdraw from society.
- Comment on Is it Possible that a Typical Quantity of Sneezes is Inherited/Genetic? 1 month ago:
I would say that it probably is but if it turns out to be cultural then that would be very interesting.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 1 month ago:
Feasebal is my new favourite word.
Thank you fine sir.
- Comment on UK and Norway team up to hunt Russian submarines and undersea sabotage 1 month ago:
“Make America Irrelevant Again”
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 1 month ago:
There are graphs in the book The Spirit Level which show exactly this. The two things correlate. From memory Iceland, Japan and maybe Poland do well, or at least they were when the book was published.
