Yes they do. I follow an astronaut on X who’s got tons of photography equipment on the ISS and regularly posts shots of various cities at night and weather formations as seen from space. It’s pretty cool.

https://x.com/astro_pettit

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The whole world is indeed in a bad mood and the reason is we’re all addicted to social media, which makes people miserable.

It’s impossible to fully patrol one’s territory in cyberspace. That means our hippocampus never sends the “all clear” signal which would allow us to relax from fight or flight mode.

As a result, the entire population of humanity is in an unprecedented state of hypervigilance.

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WW3 began in 2022

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So then what does the green line represent?

You can’t fix society from the top.

Every person has to do their part to fix society.

The idea that societies can (perhaps only) be fixed from the top is a convenient excuse to abdicate one’s own responsibility for taking care of things around them.

What are your x and y axes here?

Having a life plan that works, that realistically and with some degree of certainty is taking me to somewhere that I want to go, and in the context of which waking up is an instrumental action furthering my progress along that path.

Without a good reason to wake up, waking up sucks. A good reason to wake up is a complex thing. A good plan for life is hard to make, but worth it.

I say this from the perspective of a history of massive depression.

A good reason to open one’s mouth is that there’s delicious food in front of you. A good reason to wake up is that there’s a plan for the day that brings you closer to the things you want in life.

If you have a hard time getting up, resolving that starts with making sure whatever thing you’re getting up for actually serves you.

I think the term “social” here refers to one’s peers. It’s the same idea behind the term “YouTube”. It’s a play on the term “boob tube” which refers to the television. So instead of showing you boobs, YouTube is supposed to be “TV about you”.

It’s the same idea as the brand name FUBU, which stands for “For Us, By Us”.

“Social” here is the same concept as in the word “socialism”. In this context, the word means “of the people”. Same as in the phrase “social causes” as a term for charity.

Yes.

No you can’t do that

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There would be a lot more respect between people, if everyone was in an iterated game with everyone else and they knew it.

Yeah next time they go for a coup they need to try bringing weapons. Silly Republicans, always doing coups wrong.

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How do you figure Trump might get some kind of fractional extra term?

That’s the one thing old people just don’t do: they won’t read what’s presented on the screen.

I think it comes from growing up before GUIs, so they think of an interface as a set of buttons on a console. There was very little reason to read an interface back when they were all physical; you either knew what each button did or you didn’t and you only had to memorize it once.

Like, the controls of a T-38 tank are always the same. The controls of a ‘57 Chevy are always the same.

Once GUIs came into play, people started interacting with orders of magnitude more control interfaces, so the concept of “there is no manual; the interface is self-documenting” came into existence.

Now you’re supposed to learn the interface and use it on the first encounter, which means reading what the interface is saying.

Jesus christ

The suggestion was for a little notebook, not a printout.

Have you tried a little notebook?

A notebook is more of a “thing” than a piece of paper is. A notebook is the sort of thing a person can keep on a bookshelf. A sheet of paper is gonna live on a flat surface until it’s thrown away.

Try the notebook.