I’m a little confused by the opening paragraphs. So the advent of computers was hailed as a great productivity booster, but in the beginning, productivity actually went down.

Is the article seriously contending that computers have not improved productivity? So there were grandiose expectations of huge boosts that would arrive immediately - so what? That’s naive and dumb.

But in the long run, computers found their applications and people figured out how to put them to productive use. The world is unrecognizable today as a result.

So what’s the implication for AI? Thousands of CEOs admit that their hamfisted shoe-horning of AI into the workplace has done nothing? Big surprise. Are we just in the awkward adjustment phase, though?

I forget: is it Fortune or Forbes that started putting out gaming guides a while back?

Why make it complicated? Just hit them with a “we hate you” tax.

Maybe you don’t lose an inch of penis length, but perhaps you do lose an inch of skin.

But I agree this is stupid because 99.99% of people are going to think “penis length.”

This is perhaps the dumbest circumcision awareness sign I’ve seen. And I support the cause.

I like the light.

Hah I can believe that.

I’m not technically synaestehtic but I do have strong associations between numbers and colors, days of the week and colors.

Saturday has always been blue. Sunday is red. Number 4 is green, 3 is yellow, etc.

For a time I moved to an Islamic country where Friday is the holy day, not Sunday. So the weekends were Thursday-Friday and not Saturday-Sunday.

What was weird is that my red/blue associations with Saturday/Sunday shifted onto Thursday/Friday after a long time of living like this. And then I left that place and my associations shifted back.

The “nineness” of a thing, as you say, is hard to describe.

I grew up with a Betamax tape player under the family TV. It had a 24 hour clock and it was the timepiece in the house that was in the right spot to tell us all that it was bedtime. As a result I have an intuitive feel for the 24 hour clock. But if you haven’t used it regularly, which most ordinary Americans don’t, then yeah you just have to stop and do the arithmetic before you can connect 21:00 to your sense of time.

He did say it always fucks him up :D

Heh. I’ve had this thought many times, that we used the floppy as a save icon for longer than we even used the damn floppy, and for almost that whole time, there were tons of people coming online who’d never used floppies and would get no help whatsoever from that icon.

Recently I notice that the bookmark has become the metaphor for “save.” Literally an icon showing the end of a bookmark hanging forward. But is this actually an improvement? Does anyone fucking read books anymore??

I hate people who consider trees nothing but problems. Such people should be cut down.

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Indeed.

I understand and am very burned out about it all myself. But I will never have the audacity to complain out loud that anyone is ruining my escapism as long as people out there are suffering with no chance of escape. We’re bombing the fuck out of 80 million people right now.

I’m on great terms with my wife and make my own fucking breakfast. These things may in fact be related.

I’ll be in my bunk.

Isn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?

Who would know better than you? I hope they start listening.

You’re starting to get it. Politics is not just a very boring television channel. It’s power transactions at the highest levels and it affects basically every thing. To even be able to whine about having to pay attention to politics is a great privilege.

Idaho about that, actually.

That’s fair - I’d agree. I guess I just don’t see the happy at all.

Right? We’d celebrate death anniversaries, not birthdays.