no neg, only pos
Every time you neg yourself you reinforce that mode of thinking and it becomes easier and easier to see yourself that way and harder and harder to think you can succeed and do the things you want to.
So when you have a negative self thought, say no aloud, and replace it with a positive thought. Repeat it over and over. Please. I care about you all.
To think that understanding the materialist world is equivalent to understanding the world we actually live in is a doomed premise.
I don't mean to say "everything is psychological". What I mean to say is that at the end of the day, our qualia are all we have, all that we *are*. Reductivist rationalism is a useful tool but it will never produce all knowledge.
Cybernetic self indulgence. (And cannabis.)
I let my mind's eye wander over the conceptual form of it all, reveling in the awkward beauty of what machines that meat is capable of dreaming into existence—
I startle when the screen lights up of its own accord to tell me that it's low on battery.
<too tired to list jokes here, feel free to provide your own>
Cybernetic self indulgence. (And cannabis.)
I drop the cable and position the headphones just right, as comfortably as possible to provide perfect sound. I connect the cable to the phone. Now I'm holding the end of a cable to plug into _me._ and provide the tunes directly.
The experience becomes transcendent and liminal, a different relationship with the technology in some subtle but fundamental way. I blush. It's not directly sexual, but it somehow sends the same signals through me.
Cybernetic self indulgence. (And cannabis.)
I lie down in bed, head comfortably propped up by pillows and THC. Next to me, my phone sits ready to provide music. In one hand, I hold a pair of very familiar and comfortable headphones. In the other, I hold the cable to connect things up.
I've stopped mid-motion to reconsider. I could simply plug the cable into the headphones and put them on my head as normal, and in a mere moment I'd be listening to music as usual.
Or....
Υ = (d/d(Δ9)) Π
Height is the change in perspective with respect to cannabis, measured in sagans.
Α = (d/d(Δ9)) Υ
Lift is the change in height with respect to cannabis, measured in gebers.
Ε = (d/d(Δ9)) Α
Launch is the change in lift with respect to cannabis, measured in khunrath.
Ξ = (d/d(Δ9)) Ε
Jolt or startle is the change in launch with respect to cannabis, measured in watts.
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My wife, @literorrery, reflecting stonedly on a day of accomplishments:
"I eated all of the soup out of the soup."
Capitalism
"You want me to leave my mate, be in the company of random strangers with whom you don't want me forming the 'wrong' kinds of emotional attachments, perform alien calculations in strenuous mental models for hours a day, for which you will reward me with just enough to not really afford shelter, in hopes that in thirty years, we can quit doing it? And you think my way of life is weird?"
Truth is, when I'm on the road with the machine, its integrated video isn't enough to drive the 3D portion of that interface at respectable rates anyhow, but videogames have been doing independent 2D and 3D scaling stuff for ages now, so it's not exactly an unknown tech. Why doesn't F360 allow for that from the get-go?
I know I'm being a bit hard on it, but... PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE. *sigh*
Well, okay, imagine those if they _hadn't_ been auto-resized from 3840×2005 to 1280×668.
...Is the auto-resizing because of dimensions or filesize?
Brilliant. The year is 2017 and there are still knuckle-draggers out there coding as though no computer display ever had a DPI above 96. Fr'ex, Autodesk Fusion 360.
Because my display has a DPI of around 352, Windows 10 is set to 250% UI scaling, meaning I get to choose between blurry everything... or crystal-sharp everything but erratically sized elements. Imagine each of these on a 12.5" screen:
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