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~tetris

That's normal, I think of it more as "language inertia". I use Python and R daily in my life and it still somehow takes me some time to adjust between these two languages (e.g. oh right I'm in R, how do I for loop again, oh that's right I'm not meant to...)

Your music community sounds genuinely magical, and I can just imagine you all buzzing to the same shared musical contexts, like pieces of the same brain.

Sometimes I lament living in a foreign land where I can't contribute much to the greater zeitgeist there due to the missing cultural references, but it awakens when I'm sitting with a group of english-speakers and we suddenly sync topic-wise on some shared thought. There, I'm a neuron flashing in rhythm with my neighbours.

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As for life sans software: No! It didn't have to be like this. Software was meant to empower us, automate the boring aspects of our lives, enrich us instead of hindering us. A smartphone in 2022 should allow users to communicate between their owned devices without using middleman software. Under the guise of better security from big corps, we've been hindered in that respect.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

I think it did have to be like this in software.

As with socio-economic systems, the outcome was more some mathematical integral of the behaviors of all participants than some driving force.

To me in this moment, "big corps" are more a consequence of what we are - first personally, then amplified collectively - than some evil descending from above. They represent/reflect a fundamental lying/cheating/deceit of the vast majority of individuals ("when no one's looking").

I suppose one could argue they foster even more of such in subsequent generations, but where did they come from in the first place but this species as an interactive whole?

So of *course* the software situation had to go more the direction of big corps lording it over idiots, because as a species we're mostly idiots, imagining personal gain more in hidden subterfuge than in loving our neighbors as ourselves. It's this weird upside-down-ness where greater idiocy sinks to the bottom, and the bottom is from whence idiots are ruled.

Something like that. :-)

I'm gonna go to an unpopular (again, due to majority idiocy) analogy, and put it in your words:

"No! It didn't have to be like this. The Ten Commandments were meant to empower us, eliminate the destructive aspects of our lives, enrich us instead of hindering us."

And yet here we are....

Yeah, I know... I'm being quite the downer, here. *But* I do believe there's a way out of the madness - but within where the errant (let's call it..) "pseudo I" lives and reigns.

And you can bet your proverbial "sweet bippy" it ain't goin' down without a tooth and snail-mail fight! :-)