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  • You're absolutely right about the danger of giving up your phone, if the police wanted to take it from you. By sticking with traditional documents you remove any pretense they might have to try. It is not a stupid call, it's just less convenient - but then, security is always a compromise with accessibility.

  • Hmm, okay, that's not really what your "loose theory" above posited though:

    I have a loose theory that the idea of habit formation only came about with trying to make a productive worker

    So based on your latest reply, it seems like you're not really looking for when habits formed in humans, but rather how modern styles of government have changed the habits we form and why they had that impact. (Or modern social systems, if you prefer that to "government", since government has kinda fucked up every system we've tried so far)

    It's an interesting question! Just be careful to state what you mean, because clarification can look like shifting the goalposts. Also stay vigilant against confirmation bias, which is peeking through a little in your original post; make sure you're not just looking for evidence that fits your notion.

  • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6701929/

    Creatures of Habit: The Neuroscience of Habit and Purposeful Behavior

    Habits serve a critical purpose in making our behavior more efficient, reducing the decision burden we face each day and freeing up mental energy for more demanding tasks

    This makes sense, because the brain already uses ~20% of our calorie intake as it is; reducing unnecessary use of it would have been an evolutionary pressure.

    A good way to approach questions like this is to look at the behaviour in things other than humans, and compare. For example, I googled (searched, actually; DDG'd specifically) "habit formation in animals"; no corporate overlords, so if they form habits there must be something else to it.

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  • Not at all. I said that now this has happened, the humans actually in charge of the decisions which inspired it might adjust their cost/benefit calculations. I didn't say it was right, I said it's understandable why people would celebrate it and I said there's a chance it will have an actual impact.

    I'll leave you and your straw man to discuss further; you've got more of an argument with him than you do with me.

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  • If it was a random death you might have a point. I would still say it makes sense that people would celebrate the death of a villain, but that's beside the point.

    This was an assassination, a message on its own even if there weren't literal words carved into the casings. This may well give a person about to make an inhumane decision on behalf of a company's bottom line pause. It's a reminder that those decisions have real consequences, even if not always legal ones.

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  • And if someone does fuck a person without feet, it's gonna be assumed that's the primary reason as opposed to any of the parts the footless (or... footloose? Sorry) person does have.

    Humans are weird.