Just as “magic spells” use special rhymes and archaic terms to signal their power, the convoluted language of legalese acts to convey a sense of authority, they conclude.

In a study appearing in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that even non-lawyers use this type of language when asked to write laws.

“People seem to understand that there’s an implicit rule that this is how laws should sound, and they write them that way,” says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the senior author of the study.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819

They believe that the right amount of good spells recited in the correct order will grant them victory. Unfortunately they’ve studied a different magic book than most people, so their magic does not work on others.

24 - 28 FPS

If we continue the current trend, we could successfully transition to e-ink screens without any noticable performance penalty in less than a decade. The future is exciting!

Judging by the website alone, this looks shadier than the Venus Project.

Valve, as they aren’t actively trying to scam their potential user base

I love Valve, but let’s face the reality here. They’re operating an unregulated bank and casino.

This trend is not limited to windows. Try to open a notepad or a calculator on any modern linux distro. 3-5 seconds. And it’s getting worse with snaps and flatpacks.

I see the price as $21.91 in the search result page. After clicking on it, it returns error 403.

Be careful. Having ownership of your resources allows you to take your stuff, or sell it, and try something else somwhere else. If all the resources are communal, it is harder to escape if the things go south. One of the reasons why is it difficult to leave certain kind of cults.

Was this launch special in any way? I had no idea these effects are observable from this side of the planet.

Bad bot!

Multiple good hypotheses here. I’d like to add my own. The governments can be viewed as a modern iterations of religious cults, and there is no bigger taboo in a religious organization than questioning the basic dogma.

Try to question democracy in a democratic republic and you immediately get the weird looks, and irrational dismissal. 9 times out of 10 this self preservation instinct is good and beneficial to everyone involved, because giving a benefit of doubt to closeted authoritarians would be a mistake. That one time somebody really wants to have an honest discussion, it simply sucks.

If it does not help, try limiting the maximum number of active connections in qbittorrent.

You won’t believe what happened next!

You’ve just used the word “normie”. Why would anyone even read the rest of the post?

When you stop voting for maniacs messing with our monetary sytem, we can shut the bitcoin down. Until then, hands off my sudoku.

to educate themselves

In other words, to do their own research?

I’ll show myself out…

Serves it right! :D

The opposite. I’m afraid I will waste my life procrastinating, not even being aware of what it has to offer.

Yet somehow the same people can be trusted to select the best among them to make the rules for everyone.

Not sure about the human speech, but there is a certain mongolian string instrument able to perfectly immitate a horse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE (4:41)