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by ux-app 7y ago
> it will be way too late it's already too late. The planet is too small to accommodate this many humans. There is no hope. I understand the need to feel like you're doing something in the face of this catastrophe, but we&#x2
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by ux-app 7y ago
ok, if not self-flagellation, then it's feel-good eco activism. You're doing just enough to soothe your conscience without actually depriving yourself. The problem is, that's not nearly enough to make any difference. Not even
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by ux-app 7y ago
> And you know, now when I started changing my lifestyle I feel much better about myself This is self-flagellation and sorry, but it does nothing and has no impact on the bigger picture.
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by ux-app 7y ago
> individual actions ALONE will not fix the problem, but they might be necessary to encourage broader societal change If there are ever enough bleeding heart, average, first world, wealthy (by global standards), vegan converts who will &
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by ux-app 7y ago
> vote for a political party that actually believes in climate change. hahahahahaha ooooh boy, that is some grade A wishful thinking. Here's a thought... try to convince the average Joe to not turn on his air conditioning on a hot d
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by ux-app 7y ago
> Technology alone is not enough I hope that technology will save us, but if not then we are finished. If tech can't save us from ourselves then the only sane thing left to do is to wring every last bit of enjoyment from our fossil
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by ux-app 7y ago
>You are wrong. I hope so.
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by ux-app 7y ago
> Please, try to at least be honest enough to openly admit you don't care about climate change out of convenience for yourself. yes, it's true, I can't see myself going back to a pre-industrial quality of life for the sake
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by ux-app 7y ago
I'm really depressed about climate change. There is no way to fix this from an individual point of view. Society is impossibly reliant on fossil fuels. Individuals going vegan, reducing consumption etc will have negligible effect. The
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by ux-app 7y ago
you can visit https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and download the driver any time you want, just like it always was. GeForce Experience is mostly for the convenience of receiving automatic notificati
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by ux-app 8y ago
>because they might set their bar lower. Could it be that people with aphantasia are just more demanding for what they count as "seeing"? Yeah maybe. How could we ever really know though? I guess we have to take them at their w
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by ux-app 8y ago
man that is wild. I have never experienced something like this. seems pretty awesome.
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by ux-app 8y ago
>Maybe your Brain-VCR is missing the Rewind button hehe sure sounds like it :)
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by ux-app 8y ago
>How do you remember things? I don't. As I mentioned in a previous post, without photos to look at, my past is a complete, impenetrable, black hole. I've been aware of this for a very long time, but never thought it strange (I
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by ux-app 8y ago
> Are you sure? * shrug * no idea tbh. others with aphantasia don't seem to share the same effect, so maybe it's some kind of other dysfunction.
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by ux-app 8y ago
> a song is stuck in your head and you can't get it out? never. although that sounds like a blessing :)
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by ux-app 8y ago
> For example, once I've heard a song enough, I can just replay it in my head sigh you've got to be kidding me. You can actually replay a sound in your head?? well, i'll add that to the list of things my brain can't
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by ux-app 8y ago
> have an excellent sense of direction. I'm excellent at learning maps in computer games. That's interesting. I wonder how your mind has learned to compensate. Maps are such visual things, you must be tapping into some other br
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by ux-app 8y ago
I've got aphantasia too. When I first heard about it about a year ago I was surprised to learn that others can actually see things in their mind's eye. Had to confirm with friends and family, with questions like 'so you can
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by ux-app 8y ago
> we ended up with a mamaRoo they're actually ok for when you need 20 minutes to cook dinner or do some other small task.
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by ux-app 8y ago
>For most of what we do on a computer I don't think so though. arranging any number of work spaces (screens) in 3d would be awesome
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by ux-app 8y ago
>cheaper than the value of your time spent building a Hackintosh and keeping it functional I don't bother with hackintosh any more as I don't have any use for MacOS, but my experience was pretty seamless. I used hardware that w
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by ux-app 8y ago
>his is about 1,800 calories a day which puts me at a steady pace to lose about 1 lb of fat a week assuming I don't cheat. A pound of fat is 3500 calories, so you've really got to be hitting a 500 calorie a day deficit to get t
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by ux-app 8y ago
Automobiles were death traps for approx 80 years, it's just that the utility outweighed the risk. Not sure the same can be said about flying bikes.
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by ux-app 8y ago
So what's the solution?
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by ux-app 8y ago
Sounds like your family had a bad experience, do you think your personal experience nullifies the positive experience of others?
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by ux-app 8y ago
It's simple. Nobody, besides us nerds, cares about the details. Unfortunately it's extremely easy for those in the media to paint this as 'isis loving Labor allows terrorists to communicate secretly' and that gets every
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by ux-app 8y ago
>So maybe more like 10% could be affected? Sorry I didn't have a chance to dig into your data, but even if it were 10%, that leaves 90% who are uninformed/disinterested and are easily swayed by the rhetoric: "If you'v
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by ux-app 8y ago
>Is Labor’s only rational plan to amass as much political power as possible at the least cost? yes, unfortunately this is the game called politics. It stinks, but it is what it is. >Be as cynical as you like, but opposition parties ar
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by ux-app 8y ago
>If the Opposition is incapable of actually opposing something they had serious reservations about they aren’t really trying. welcome to Australian politics ;)

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