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what if we bought homeless people gasoline for their c~
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║ a D&D rulebook can double as tarot if you need it. place one hand/bookmark │
║ at the start of a chapter, and the other at the end. flip to a page randomly, │
║ or randomly gain a percentage value from physical objects and then use that │
║ value to determine roughly where in the chapter you jump to. then, read words │
║ randomly, jumping back and forth, or try and divine some meaning from the words │
║ that are printed there. with D&D it's easy because you can say "ah I landed │
║ on the rogue section, that means this guy is probably pretty suave" (confirming │
║ your expectations) "hmmm, here's the rules for fatigue and drowning. maybe I │
║ need to take a break." (validating your unconscious decisionmaking) "oh neat, │
║ treasure!" (needs to explanation) but with other kinds of books it's usually │
║ better to pick the next-best word from the things your subconscious eyes can │
║ take in and process multi-laterally (you lost your audience, circle back) oh uh │
║ so if you wanna randomize it just put the words in the page in an array and │
║ pick one random. │
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UIs with big, chunky pixels, bigger than retro gaming, like using integer
scaling in a retro game.
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becomes
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(except actually square)
then, you can sculpt those pixels if you really need to, to create
high-resolution displays used locally, to increase user-performance flow rate.
the old UIs weren't bad - they were constantly tested, as they were new and
emerging technology. The old UIs had different constraints than our 2560x1440p
monitors have to say. However, they still made correct decisions, so if desired
their decisionmaking can be used to inform future UI design as well.
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if the USA goes to war with venezuela and venezuela poisons their oil watering
hole it'd just be empowering the other oil reserve extracting locations, not
bringing us closer to sustainability via carbon sequestration.
maybe nations shouldn't declare war unless the minor is declaring on the
greater.
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accessibility software which puts subtitles on everyone's zoom faces who are
talking to each other one-on-one with selective muting and an adaptive dimming
feature where if you click or tap on someone it makes them brighter and makes
your audio louder for them (if they unmute you) and whenever you click
somewhere else it slightly dims all the others. this brightness is shared by
the way so if a lot of people want to talk to you then a lot of people can
hear. oh also subtitles with voice-to-text functionality. and a built-in paint
program for sharing notes or designs. the opinionated version has no chat
program either, you have to type it into the paint program part which they get
really defensive of if you suggest making it more forum-post style with an
included keyboard typing delivery mailbox as well.
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declining birth rate is correlated with declining teen pregnancies.
some fraction of the decline in birth rate is caused by a decline in teen
pregnancies.
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if you want to win, play suboptimally without danger of losing.
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