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Nah. Perceived injustice can motivate a variety of feelings and behaviors. Not all of them helpful. Not all of them good (B. Pine, C. White, M. Eisenhardt, et al).

Ask if by rich people they mean funding?

If no: ask them to discuss functions uniquely fulfilled by rich people in the allocation of funding. They will likely need time to reflect, so plan to resume later, but the best answer is expediency/dispatch via unitary agency, and it’s easy to demonstrate why this advantage (A) is outweighed by numerous liabilities via human fallibility and (B) isn’t actually unique.

If yes: they have already conceded, but you might then shift to the question: must there be people who are poor?

That is a meatier conversation, since it challenges their assumption that people require imminent threat of destitution to motivate productivity. You can brute force this argument via strong scientific consensus, but for most you need only rely on their belief in human dignity. Just be aware that the most difficult branches of this conversational pathway are exceptions they might have carved out: groups for whom they hesitate to ascribe human dignity. But the revelation of such bigotry is important for their own personal reflection.

GL

Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol

I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.

LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?

Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.

Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.

Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.

I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.

The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.

Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”

Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?

(Edit: real answer) For most acknowledgements, I double-tap a light — beams, brakes, or hazards depending on current lighting conditions and relative position of other driver — because most things I would say to them are two beats long:

• “Thank you”
• ”Sorry”
• “My bad”
• ”Go on”
• ”Nice drift”
• ”You drunk?”

Every example of human interest profile targeting functionality that humanity has ever invented, even if it begins as a way of legitimately improving the user’s experience, eventually is gutted and retooled to cyberstalk and pimp them out to voyeuristic clients.

The clients? Mostly rich pay-per-view incel corporations that could never hope to reach their desired audience organically, much less hold their interest, so they are absolutely willing to pay for non-consentual attention control.

Once we reach this phase, your pimp has less and less interest in delivering on promises they made to you a long time ago about relevant content. They know you’ll keep giving them juicy data to help pair you with clients that they can prove have the best chance at manipulating you and getting what they want from you.

So yes, you’ll probably find that the convenience you could once purchase by giving them more of your data will slow. Ultimately, all it will purchase is more intrusive advertisers stalking you everywhere you go.

Your idea of sticking to DDG sounds like a better option

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Really respect when people publicize their private learning moments this way. Well-delivered too.

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Agree but I’d add “unnecessarily” or something, because yeah many common aliases and smaller convenience functions offer meager cumulative time savings in trade for the skill atrophy, but script files can also contain seriously lengthy and/or complex logic that would simply be counterproductive to attempt typing line-by-line into a terminal without any mistakes, especially for scripts that are run often.

A repeated and inexplicable desire to do something you think you shouldn’t is often called a “compulsion.”

A compulsion to expose your inner thoughts, specifically, is often called “not having a therapist.”

Ah but which of you generously assumes the task of thread-keeping and context-restoration most of the time?

Who kindly reminds the other that they were making a larger point, so we can say “oh shit, right! As I was saying…”

Whether it’s because you’re actually curious or just saving us from remembering the unfinished idea as we fall asleep…

You are hands down our favorite person to get aimlessly lost in conversation with <3

Sorry, friend. No one escapes The Bees.

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UV cure gel polish FTW!

If it’s been a while, check out the cool new magnetic (ferrous) polish.

Also, cheap fun hack: save money by just mixing mica powders into base polish colors. Endless varieties of iridescent colors, dimensional effects, etc.

Lol yeah hmm, not countersunk, //shrug maybe strong arm, new to firs, happens

For a second I thought the first headline was referring to the powwow of disembodied ducks lol