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I had to google the word tbh. My first instinct on reading segue was treating it like fugue, which ends on a hard g.

Ask yourself if it's ego stopping you from accepting generosity. Here's an extreme example:

I visited my dad in another province (parents separated). We went to a department store, and he forgot his wallet in his car. I offered to help, and he got extremely upset, lectured me in the middle of the store, and left me standing there waiting for him to fetch his money. He wouldn't even take a "you can pay back me back after we're out of here."

It was honestly insulting to me, being shut down like that. I think I hurt his pride? But it soured my opinion of him.

If you've got good will and trust, take help gracefully, then offer it back when the time and means are right. People will remember how you react to these things, and if you consistently reject them, they will eventually stop offering, even when the time comes that you really need it.

I imagine this commercial/personal art dichotomy has existed ever since the first time someone paid for art. Like how there's always been folk music played around campfires in contrast to the operas and orchestras where the local lord's funding goes.

Nope, I'm playing DOS2, since that's been sitting in my steam library for way too long!

THEN maybe I'll BG3. If my laptop can handle it...

I consider computer RPGs to be more in the vein of tactical RPGs rather than Pokemon/Final Fantasy style turn based RPGs tbh. It's turn based, but positioning is key. Or, at least they scratch the same itch for me.

And Fire Emblem, XCOM, FF Tactics, etc have never exactly had mind blowing sales.

So what's a better solution than reusing grocery bags?

Would reusable grocery bags suddenly be ok if they were free? Because honestly I feel that would just fuel forgetful people's bad habits.

I'm not the original person you replied to, bud. I just wanted to find something peer reviewed for you on getting images from brain scans, since you doubted that's a thing.

But like, you could also just look at the scene in the computer science field overall, if you'd like something more recent. Like the full journal from the IEEE, or maybe that little journal called Nature.

What do you think computer science departments at universities even do??

Decoding Brain Representations by Multimodal Learning of Neural Activity and Visual Features, DOI 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.2995909

Published in 2020 by the IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9097411

Why can't something be both for profit and for the environment? Because frankly, after living with a plastic bag ban for years (Canada started the process in 2020), I haven't seen random nasty plastic bags being blown around on the street. So it's helped my immediate environment.

I feel we gotta reduce plastic use on all fronts. Yes, individual consumers pollute less than corps, but that doesn't mean that consumerism as a culture doesn't produce unnecessary waste. Think about a single store and just how much packaging there is in that one place, and where all of that will ultimately end up.

So like, I'm personally for bringing reusable containers to stores to fill up on things like say, shampoo or milk. Milk delivery was a thing for a long time, so there's nothing saying our cultural approach to these things can't or shouldn't change, especially if it means less waste is generated.

And if reusable containers become a thing, I promise you there will be people whinging that it's profitable for the groceries that they're selling bottles that you used to get for free with the soap or whatever.

Yeah, which is a generational issue at worst. One guy in my family keeps forgetting his bags and buying new ones, but he also has a mindset where he resists change. The rest of us have gotten into the habit of remembering them, leaving a few in the car, etc.

Kids growing up after the ban are just gonna see it as normal. You go buy groceries? You bring your bags, just like you need to remember to bring your wallet.

Makes me think about how the BBC started a mastodon instance. If the CBC follows their example, then federation changes the relationship with social media, as it's sort of baked in...?

I think it's a lot like weed or video game addiction.

Is it going to send you to the hospital? Probably not. But if you let it take over your life to the extent that it's detrimental, then using strategies that help people kick physical addictions can be effective.

These religious groups seem to hate a lot of things that appeal to basic pleasures, want to make you feel bad for wanting to feel good.