I like that, though I might consider that rhyme, alliteration, and especially repetition also aid retention by requiring less data to be committed to memory as-is. References to other works are also very much a shorthand for cramming pre-existing memes (in the Dawkins sense) into less “word-doing.”

I dunno. The whole thing breaks down pretty quickly, as most analogies between mental and computational process do, but it’s fun to think about.

Adults also make a face with how much it’s a copy of Frozen’s premise.

Definitely very similar, but it’s different enough, I’d say. It sort of makes explicit that there are cultural repercussions to imposing Elsa’s burden on everyone, that embracing individuality can ironically create a stronger sense of community, and then, in splitting Elsa into Rumi and Jinu, it allows for parallel redemptive tracks, one who never had a “Let it Go” first act moment at all and suffered because of it, and one who really thoroughly bought into the anti-social aspects of it but is then gaslit into thinking they can never be anything better.

If we can do the Hero’s Journey a thousand times, we can do Elsa’s every few years, especially when the rest of it is changed up and fun. I do think there’s a world where K-Pop Demon Hunters comes and goes without making any waves, but the songs are all earworms and it hit at just the right moment, apparently.

It’s still out there. For one that’s specifically what you describe try Keep the Wolves at Bay by Uncle Lucius.

This one is way below $100, but about ten years ago I bought a roll of twist tie wire at a dollar store. It’s fifty or a hundred feet, with a little guillotine cutter. It’s still just a bunch of twist tie, but it punches WAY above its weight with quality of life improvement. No more hunting for the one you dropped, or wondering how you’ll close up a veggie bag. Also good for (fairly light) pictures that use wire instead of sawtooth hardware, and I’ve used it in a pinch when I didn’t have cable ties. I dunno. It’s just an oddly useful substance to have lying in your junk drawer.

Specifically for soccer, there’s O40 teams (and even beyond, up to “walking soccer/football”), and if you can change your headspace just a bit, you can drop down to a more recreational level and still enjoy the sport you love. Just be mindful that they’re not really the bad guys, and you can still try to stop them and shut out the rest of the world. As a chronic overthinker, that simple headspace can be a really healing place to be for a while.

I didn’t even start playing until I was already fat and almost thirty, but I had a good ten years of playing indoor off and on; yes… forty, but you almost certainly have much better fitness than I ever did, LOL. Speaking of indoor, it really limits the duration of your sprints and whether on offense or defense you can “manage” more of the field without the same physical strain. The consistent conditions are nice too, though many facilities smell like sweat at all times.

Older people however, were generally more disparaging and would openly scoff with “why would we need philosophy!” often followed by “[Science | religion | real life] tells us everything we need to know” depending on their particuar worldview.

Philosophy is just psychology. Psychology is just biology. Biology is just chemistry. Chemisty is just physics. Physics is just math. Math, though, math is just philosophy. Fun joke, but like many such jokes, there’s an element of truth there. While I have met some philosophy majors who find the exploration of logic so compelling that they forget to consider the humanity of their first principals, I deeply respect that Philosophy is ultimately the underpinning of how humans think about the universe in any meaningful way.

Agreed. I think this is more specifically it rather than the 50s.

• Unfettered domestic commerce devoid of worker protections.
• International trade viewed as zero-sum and managed using blunt instruments like tariffs.
• America as a rising manufacturing power.
• Nominally speaking there is no slavery, but Reconstruction is “done” and Southern elites have been rehabilitated and reintegrated without having to give up their power.
• Foreign policy built on late-stage colonialism where areas within a great power’s sphere of influence are silently allowed to be dominated so as not to antagonize other great powers. Relations handled by a stupid nest of ad-hoc limited-party treaties.
• No effort is given to contextualizing what the American experiment has meant, and who it has harmed, just literally a “manifest destiny” from god to fill the land.

Ignore that the era was laissez-faire with immigrants actually arriving (though of course the robber barons who were working their laborers to death were okay with this… until they began to unionize), and it’s a remarkably apt analogy. I’m pretty sure you can see Trump openly pining for The Gilded Age from time to time, though that may literally just be because he thinks gilding things is awesome.

And much cheaper, but the infrastructure is already there for normie golf if even walking the course would be a challenge. That reminds me that I need to see if my bag of 15 year old pastic still has anything usable in it and go to my local DG course.

But only play if the solenoid is working. A person has got to have standards.

LOL, I did not know about that, and it’s stupid and cool.

I just use THIS with the flame set higher than it strictly needs to be.

Butane lighters where it’s under pressure and comes out like a little jet engine. It just makes my inner 12yo boy smile.

It gets dumber after season 2, but it’s still kinda fun. For live action SW shows, it’s basically Andor >>> Mando S1-2 > Skeleton Crew >> everything else shuffled around according to personal taste.

Yeah, I suppose the real answer is “what will make good TV without blowing the budget,” but I would just about bet the trendline for actual offers would be skimming a little bit below expected value.

Run the math again. This game should be called “Discounted Actuarial Tables: The Game Show.” At any given point, average the remaining amounts on the board, reduce it by ten to twenty percent, and you’ll have the “banker’s” offer. Like, if the player is down to $200k, $1, and $1000, the offer will probably be something around $55k to $60k.

Over the long term, they get cost certainty and with some insurance they can run it like a casino and budget accordingly. It doesn’t have to be rigged, and as someone else has said, American TV game shows are generally considered to be above-board in a “yes/no” sense due to the Quiz Show scandal of the late 1950s. However, this makes the game play for something like Deal or No Deal very, very boring, so they spice it up with fake drama and human interest.

Yup! We called the good ones “happy secrets,” and they’re perfectly okay.

It would be annoying and some relationships that have withered might finally be snapped off and thrown away, but honestly while I appreciate the opportunity to say stuff online that I generally wouldn’t want to be public knowledge, I say nothing that I couldn’t handle being public knowledge. Probably a good rule of thumb, TBH.

Yeah, one of the interesting things I’m learning here is that a lot of folks just don’t see much value in something that shows formatted text but also obfuscates the encoding that lies behind it. It probably says something about me as a person that I want to style my text while doing first drafts, yet here we are.

What distro/configuration did you use on the Zero? Right now, I’m fighting with mine to get something that loads fast but preserves the killer feature of Wordgrinder for me, which is the “proper” display of bold, italic, and underlined text.

I’m not sure to understand your requirements in regards to Markdown ‘behind the scene’? I mean, if you don’t need visual preview you should be able to use any text editor or word processor and save your work as a text file, right?

It’s more that I don’t mind if the file format is markdown. I just don’t want stray asterisks and dashes visible on my doc as I’m editing it, but I want to have the option to use some of the style choices markdown offers. I’m also going to be running this on a pretty weak SBC, preferably with no mouse, so LibreOffice is not my first choice. From what I’m seeing, I am beginning to think I’ve identified the best apps for my use case to try out, between Wordgrinder, Word on DOSBox, and either AbiWord or Focuswriter in X11, but I was wondering if I’d overlooked some cool terminal-based word processor.

I used an old ThinkPad (X220) that was more than powerful enough to smoothly run LO (edit: with whatever was the latest release of Debian), hooked to an external display because its own display was shitty at best.

Mine will begin life as the ARM SBC screwed to the back of a 9” display and using one of my mechanical keyboards. If it works well, I’ll design and print a case for it, and maybe design a keyboard specifically for it. It’s as much an electronics tinkering project as a writing one.

Typora is a good looking app, but I think I’ve probably got Focuswriter in mind if I go with a full graphical environment. Typora is also a “proper” markdown editor in that it’s not hiding the code characters, though I like how it also implements them in the single pane. I can’t seem to find a way to turn that off, and it’s counter to the idea here, which is not quite WYSIWYG, but definitely farther in that direction. Thank you, though!

Obsidian is a bit heavy for what I’m after, which is barely a step above a “digital typewriter.” I’d definitely have to run a window manager or DE, and I’d have to hide much of Obsidian’s functionality anyway. Thank you though!