I’ve played around with moving perspectives. Your brain adapts remarkably quickly to it, in general. It trips up at some bits for a lot longer however.
A few years back, I built a rig to view yourself in the 3rd person (view from above and behind your head). It was good fun. I could adapt to the change in about 5-10 seconds, once I was used to it. Forward collision detection was completely screwed. My brain would default to “normal” without conscious overriding.
Oi, we have awesome food in the UK! (We also have a LOT of complete crap too)
As a parent, an extra layer of protection would be a positive. Balancing everything, and not leaving holes is hard enough, and I’ve yet to deal with the teenage phase.
As the same time, as a Netizen, the risk of abuse to datamine me is FAR too great.
The only way I would accept it is via zero knowledge proof type tokens. I can prove I am of age, but nothing more about me can be determined by any party.
The current laws seem aimed at using “protect the children” to remove anonymity from the web, and are a data miner’s wet dream.
UK fire engines aren’t built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save lives…
There’s also the 28 hour day one https://xkcd.com/320/
We now get milk in glass bottles (extra plus, it tastes FAR better than supermarket milk). We are also trying to phase out plastic use where we can. IKEA is actually remarkably useful for that. They have a lot of glass or wooden kitchen stuff.
I’m also careful to avoid “perfect is the enemy of good” situations. I’m not plastic free, just changing what can be changed without huge disruptions.
Short answer, you can’t. E.g. on the international space station, you could have 1 person “standing” on 1 wall, while another is “standing” on the other. They would both see the other as upside down. Both would be right.
Long answer, we agree on common frames of reference. We already do this on earth. It’s just that in space, we don’t have gravity, and everything is moving around a lot already.
E.g. in a ship under thrust, thruswards is up. We could also use the plane of the solar system, or the direction of the local planet as a reference. All of them are arbitrary however.
Amusingly, if you continue down that rabbit hole, you encounter relativity. It says there are no prime frames of reference, EVERYTHING is relative.
I would much rather a FOSS option, that is difficult to tap into. The other option is people using proprietary setups that can be data mined without the user’s knowledge.
Its a classic “perfect is the enemy of good” situation.
They also likely have detailed plans and supplies set up for exactly this sort of action. It will be less “teenager with an AK” and more competent, trained soldiers fighting to protect his homeland from invaders.
Recycling is the final reasonable option, not the first.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
The scam is in the material choices.
Metal and Glass are easy to recycle. It’s also cost and environmentally effective. Particularly with reuse of glass bottles.
Paper can also be recycled. It can also be composted with food waste.
Plastics are the big problem. They can’t easily be recycled, and the resultant plastic is low quality. Any more than 20% remelt is considered unreliable. The only viable options are landfill or incineration.
Recycling plastics is basically a scam. It shifts the blame onto consumers, letting big companies pocket the savings over glass or (waxed) paper containers.
It perplexed me quite a lot. I think it was the only way he could mentally maintain his worldview.
Dealing with that mindset is exhausting. I try and keep an open mind. Unfortunately it’s possible to have it so open your brain falls out.
I lost a good friend a similar way. He insisted there was a global conspiracy to suppress “free energy” (over unity generators), among other things.
My background allowed me to personally prove some of his arguments wrong from almost first principles. He then accused me of personally being part of the conspiracy. At that point I concluded he was a lost cause and parted ways.
Most of his “evidence” was in YouTube videos. I went through a couple. It mostly had the build-up, explanation, consequences, and conclusions. It missed any actual evidence. It’s amazing how someone can fill 2 hours with nothing of substance.
I found that Victorinox (makers of the swiss army knife) do an equivalent to the leatherman multi tool. The “swiss tool X”.
I personally suspect environmentally caused ADHD could be a thing.
Ultimately, if the treatment methods and suggestions help, I have no issues with it being treated.
It’s also worth noting that ADHD (and sub diagnosis ADHD) are disproportionately represented in certain groups. My wife didn’t realise she had a problem till well into adulthood. Since she was diagnosed, over half her friendship group are either diagnosed, or in the process.
When it causes active problems with life. It’s also worth noting that it’s a brain chemistry change. Where on the sliding scale you pick is, ultimately, a little arbitrary.
I personally suspect modern life isn’t helping. The pressures on children are quite different now. I suspect many children who wouldn’t develop symptomatic ADHD in earlier years now do.
It’s also worth noting that ADHD, as a condition, is mostly a Gordian knot of maladaptations. Built up over childhood (and beyond). While there are a lot of commonalities, you need to do a detailed investigation to pick out what bits are a problem to the individual.
If you’re going to go through that process, then you might as well not tie up an MRI machine for no reason.
Drugs can treat the base problem, but don’t work well without the follow-up care to repair the behavioural damage.
TSA luggage keys are a good counter example.
In theory, only you and airport security can open your case. In practice, you can pick them up off eBay for next to nothing.
The UK used submarines during the Falklands war.
The decision was made to sink an Argentinian warship. Critically, they didn’t attack the escort ship. They left it to recover the sailors. Apparently it horrified the British command when it ran, leaving sailors in the water.
A simple radio message “Move and we will sink you. Take no offensive actions and we will give you 5 minutes to launch lifeboats first.” Hell, even a sonar ping would have given them half a chance.
You at least do what you can to give them a fighting chance.
A radio message would have at least let them abandon ship in a (semi) orderly manner. Hell, even a solar ping would have got them into life jackets.
Normally, a sub wouldn’t risk this. They knew in advance, however, that the ship was not currently armed.
Fully agreed. It’s worth noting that mounting it to the side would likely also work fine. Particularly if the person is already blind. That way it doesn’t disrupt the view of facial expressions.