Yes, I don't think I have another app but more features on some apps I use (Smartdock, Joplin, Librera, Rimusic) would be slightly life-changing.
he knows nothing and genuinely thinks he’s doing a good job.
seems like the first step to improving is being given information on how you're doing, and the second is being mentored/trained?
Why were there trackers initially?
Nobody has to take it seriously but I suspect it's more fun if they do. Some writers plot and foreshadow as baroquely as if they were building up a philosophical argument. I just read a review of a novel I'd read and the reviewer quoted some beautiful sentences I have no memory of.
Good for others but doesn't work for me as it's not on mobile sadly. There are several mobile translation extensions but they all rely on Google/Microsoft/DeepL & I don't know how to assess the privacy consequnces of that.
One of the recent Facebook whistleblowers said her version of social media was her & her friends sharing news articles in a Signal group chat. That's, like, my wet dream.
But I have no reason to believe Discord is even an iota less evil than Facebook.
I wish I could loosen up and enjoy malicious tech but like I said, I just can't unring that bell, even though it makes my life meaningfully worse. Iykyk
In the article they talk about extremely subtle pronounciation changes. It doesn't seem like it was a conscious decision.
I used to have a job where I was the only non-Indian on my team and I didn't go as far as to develop an accent (also I went home every day lol unlike these guys) but I felt like I was unintentionally picking up some Indian affectations/word orders.
Thanks for your response. It's not just the term "ownership" I am frustrated with, because there's a reason we use the term: it's accurate. I think in an ethical world we would be building a society and environment that allowed us to be good neighbours to cats (and all other forms of life) rather than forcefully assimilating them into our homes and taking away all of their freedom. I think veganism is a horizon most people have considered (even if just only barely) because of the brutality of factory farms but people hardly have the imagination to acknowledge the cruelty of what goes on in their own homes and alternatives (for obvious reasons: it's relatively easy to not eat animal products, very difficult for any one individual to make a non-human-friendly impact on the environment around them). I think the way you think about your cat is fair. What prompted my rant was the kind of attitude that someone who responded to this post earlier had--"are you kidding, OBVIOUSLY my dog loves me, OBVIOUSLY I am entitled to make decisions about its reproductive rights, because even though he's my best buddy he's my inferior!" I find the "I'll eat an extra steak for you" attitude vile but I almost never encounter it IRL whereas almost everyone I know will project the most convenient possible narrative and emotions onto their pets and praise themselves for keeping them. I mean, as I say in OP, it is what it is, it's arguably better for a cat to be indoors in this messed-up world. But only arguably and ambivalently so. It's most people's cavalier attitudes about it that I find to be inexcusable and diagnostic of deep cruelty.
If you aren't a troll you're behaving like one. "Shut up, be normal, go outside" aren't arguments.
Nobody is going to be able to convince you unless they come to understand where you stand on the morality of human beings being able to dominate and restrict one another's freedoms or on the richness of the interiority and moral value of non-human animals and tediously go through a deconstruction of the status quo worldview. Because, again, we've already gone through these questions and generally come to similar conclusions.
As a general heuristic in life if I directly benefit from something, and especially if someone else affected by my profiteering can't talk back to me, I see that as a flashing red light saying I need to question things and can't take my motivated intuitions as fair conclusions.
I've been listening to Karen Bakker often lately (I may even read her book sometime) and if what she says about AI and other new technology being able to give us a method of interspecies communication is true...jesus christ, the moral revolution will be copernican.
Oh hey, I saw something by accident that I can contribute here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWKQIqzotLQ
It's a video response from Chomsky's current collaborators telling off these journalists for announcing a private health matter to the public & making it harder for Chomsky & his family & emphasising that even now into his 90s he is doing cutting-edge much-discussed intellectual work and that is the real news.