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If we dial into any number of our "higher level behaviors", you can often go all the way back to "survival". Play is an important part of skill acquisition, and the easiest way to …

Watch any number of animal documentaries. Animals (particularly mammals) of all kinds engage in play, whether children or adults. I find it odd that anybody questions the idea.

What graphics card and which drivers? It's especially problematic with older GPUs, but with modern ones it's largely fine and none of these issues show up as much as they apparentl…

I'm disappointed that the study focused on over-60's. I've felt extremely lonely since the pandemic started that I've only recently been able to counteract with in-person meeting w…

Since the pandemic started, I've switched from hitting the gym to buying dumbbells so I can train at home. I've made huge strides in muscle mass and strength. Even just 30kg in pla…

As climate change affects more and more of Africa and the Middle East, we're going to see the EU drift towards more of a cohesive nation state by necessity. Just a few million refu…

Schopenhauer: World as representation.

> “ Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see. It’s almost always a disappointment.” ... how can he use this…

I'm not sure how you can say this with a straight face when we have stuff like https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7 or https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21358…

> comprehensible to just about everyone Are you forgetting the recent post about how kids these days don't even have any concept of files? You're over-estimating most people in the…

I think the environmental impact is overstated. There's a healthy second hand market that thrives because of companies buying laptops and eventually selling them. I've gotten plent…

> 1. Old control panels: Drivers may overlay or modify the window, so you can't really change them (don't forget: Windows supports many obscure devices like DAWs and heavy machiner…

Huh, checked some of my older accounts and none of them matched each other. So I must be doing something right.

Go back a hundred years and "national defense" was just a part of European culture. What's changed is that in the post-World War period, Europe was necessarily domesticated (aside …

You can say the same thing about the internet. Avoid the toxic sites. Go to the good sites. But you'd have a hard time arguing that the internet isn't a useful tool.

Uh, okay? I'm not sure I need tips on improving my running mileage while I'm at work either. Doesn't make Reddit useless.

I'm not aware of any better site to find information on special interests. Just avoid the toxic subreddits. Reddit is way too useful a resource to throw out the baby with the bathw…

Unless there were any known reasons at the time as to why CureVac wouldn't be able to create a functioning vaccine, I'm not sure how it's any use to anybody to take this position. …

> Chrome has the biggest market share (outside of iOS) because it has the more features Most users don't care. Chrome is the dominant browser because Google anti-competitively used…

> Am I paranoid to think that this sounds like a continuation of the ANOM project... selling a supposedly secure, home brew and private device to the gullible who desperately want …

Is it just me or does it feel like they've been more tightly lipped about Windows 11 than they have about previous upcoming Windows releases?