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Ah, "status quo", that's a Latin phrase! I'm particularly fond of "carpe diem": seize the carp!

I donno for me life's just good. I'm living that Asterix lifestyle lol.

Chill out brother. Life's good.

Turns out to be a grounding issue--it reliably does/doesn't do it depending on location.

Yes after more investigation this seems to be it--the clue was that it doesn't do it in all locations.

The same thing happened in the Apple store I went to visit. Devices tend to zap you when you touch them. Maybe the problem is localized to certain regions?

Ah yes it is a 2 pin...ungrounded. Is there a way I can ground myself/and-or my laptop? I just had achilles tendon surgery so I can't really touch grass, so to speak proverbially (…

Yes its relatively dry. I had a humidifier but the fuse blew so I'm kinda stuck with what I've got. Is there any other way to dissipate charge in dry climates than humidity?

Yes exactly! That's how it started, but now it happens even when its not charging...and for my phones too. Maybe it's just a change in my perception, like what was subliminal befor…

It used to only happen when I had it plugged in, initially when I took my MacBook to Romania a few years ago and plugged it into the power grid there, they use a different frequenc…

I understand that technology evolves and not everyone is the same, but the last 3 Macbooks I've had, going back to 2020, all zap me for some reason. I.e. when I move my hands over …

No shit sherlock.

I am a reddit power user from way back in the day (2006), with multiple accounts. Today I tried to make a few light banter comments and all of them got blocked by auto-moderators w…

> I think it's just one of the bugs in our genetic code that evolution didn't shake out. I say that not as a biologist or anyone who has done any work in the field. I'm just curiou…

Yep that's a cogent, serious stance, and it sounds a lot like illusionism (famously argued by Daniel Dennett) or functionalism if you ever wanted to check out more about it. It’s a…

Yeah that pretty much seems to be it. > then isn't the experience just of "a surface attribute, of given spatial extent". I don't know why this seems to be so hard for me to think …

I'm actually curious here, because maybe our experiences are different. When you look at something red, before any associations or thoughts kick in, before you start thinking "this…

> It seems entirely possible that the "philosophical zombie" is an impossible/illogical construct, and that in fact anything with all the structure necessary for consciousness will…

> As noted, consciousness seems to just be the ability to self-observe, which is useful as another predictive input. As far as I know, consciousness is referring to something other…

It's the sound your passengers make, which is a joke.

I've been in Europe for almost 2 months now and started seeing the GDPR banners a lot more often. I've yet to feel like I'm missing anything by either clicking reject all, or by av…

> Once you have worked a while in business or marketing, you will see that it's not that easy unfortunately Nobody is forcing anybody to do this, this is a personal and business de…

It's both (though I would lean towards lost for a majority of them). It's also true that the longer the outage, the greater the impact, and you have to take into account knock-on e…

My team's systems play a critical role for several $100M of sales per day, such that if our systems go down for long enough, these sales will be lost. Long enough means at least se…