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There are probably a bunch of these kinds of songs here too:

It was more of an explicit metaphor for the hive mind. I... have no idea how to answer that.

Difficult to say. Have (create in your experience) a thought you've never had. We'll try to come up with different things, likely combining X and Y, as you suggested above, but yeah, it does seem to be a rare occurence.

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So-called enshitification is happening to Windows as well.

Can't you consciously conform?

Looks like Smaug's eye, too - the dragon from The Hobbit.

Oh yeah, for sure. As a sidenote, it seems almost automatic to hear "conformist" as a negative thing, doesn't it? We keep bumping into this.

"Carries." That's the keyword. How does that come about?! What makes it possible? In a figurative sense, I would agree with your first claim. Hmm, what if I gave you the finger? Or made a heart shape with my hands? Is there a distinction to be made between what the body does - adopting a certain posture, say - and what is then added to it (perhaps through interpretation), like the existence of gesture, symbol, meaning, and so on? Yeah, sand reacting to sound. Where is language to be found there? Reverberation may be a function of movement and doesn't necessarily have to involve language of any kind.

It's mainly a preference for having everything in one unified format - useful for loading onto a Kindle or smartphone. Besides, the content is stored locally. To me, the current method feels a bit clunky. I think I downloaded the website with HTTrack a bunch of years ago. Now I just simply have to sort through hundreds of HTML files.

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Now that I think about it, there should be a few threads sharing some high-quality political resources, maybe including the Spiral Dynamics threads. You guys look it up

Actually, even though I'm not really into politics (and it's video content), I can appreciate the work of people like Jon Stewart and John Oliver - they tend to be fairly candid, insightful, and entertaining, I've found. Could be useful.

@Thought Art reminded me:

It's not even personal, it tends to come with the territory. Or rather, it's what people tend to do.

It's either part 5 for me or nothing I'm kidding, I've watched the latest episodes. Have yet to start Rationality II.

You can benefit, yes, but it's about the endeavor as a whole and what it is up to. Anyhow, question what a belief is. I'd apply that label to the whole thing. Hence the use of the word system.

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@Ishanga It's peak comedy. Watch it a second time while reading the comments.

@Wilhelm44 @Natasha Tori Maru I don't see how saying more would help if people fail to see the difference in the first place - it's not mainly about content or character. There's no truth in any belief system, and that's essentially what's being sold here. It might be worth looking more deeply into what "belief" actually is.

Yeah, a couple of weeks of debauchery first before joining the hive. Need to burn some karma. "WE'RE SORRY WE UPSET YOU, CAROL."