If a business makes it too difficult to use them I just use someone else. I'm sure they understand that but are making a killing at the expense of other people.
I agree. Its the same with literature as well. One thing I enjoy about older media is not feeling so drawn to reflect on any social commentary of my own time. To me it makes it more immersive and more about the timeless aspects of the story.
I havent finished reading it yet but I really like the setting in A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers. It's a wholesome and positive vision of a world that saw the error of its ways and decided to make amends and do things right, technologically, environmentally and socially. It gives me a sense of hope and pride in humanity which is an unusual thing to get from a setting rather than characters and story.
Also Solaris by Stanislaw Lem for blurring (or even erasing) the distinction between place and person and evoking a powerful sense of wonder and total 'alienness'. It was the last story I read that I was completely captivated by. Horrifying, beautiful and compelling.
It's probably because although there is some overlap they also have important distinctions. Content doesn't have agency in the same way that software does. Perhaps you could think of it as content saying things to you and software as doing things with you. Repeating what someone is saying to you is considered (rightly or wrongly) to have lower stakes than knowing what someone is doing to you. It's the same idea behind the "sticks and stones" saying.
I think it might be an evolutionary thing where if you're not getting enough sleep your body gives you a temporary boost because there must be a problem that needs to be solved.
Not getting enough sleep is really bad in the long term though. Check in with us again on day five or six so we can support you with your worsening mental and emotional state, compromised immune system and shrivelled pituitary gland.
It's a funny way to put animals off - they might have the most sublime, healing and fascinating time or a completely terrifying one but the fact remains that because it takes the best part of an hour to kick in they will probably still have no idea what caused it.
Yes. Calculating how much a car journey is going to cost is such a chore. Trip in miles ÷ mpg × 4.5 × £/litre of fuel = cost.