Piers

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[–] Piers 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oxygen is a good recent French one on Netflix. Very claustrophobic.

[–] Piers 5 points 1 year ago

No. Wordpad is the one being discontinued. Paint is one of several programs that can now be uninstalled from Windows by end users without any special tricks.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like they have some level of knowledge of history and have remotely thought their views through yes.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago

Yes it is tolerating intolerance.

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes but my question is that if you say you neither hear nor see the words, what experience does "I just think of the words" mean?

For me if I think of the words in a song I experience that as an auditory thought that may have some more abstract or emotional types of thinking attached to those words (ie, if I'm think of the word "cold" I might hear the word cold in my head and also feel the idea of coldness, or if I think of the word "angry" I'll hear the word angry in my head and angry associations will come up. Note, this hearing of sounds inside the mind is not the same as experiencing an auditory halicination where you perceive you have heard an external noise with your ears.)

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

i just can't stop trying to get all the words in the right order

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do t understand why you'd need easy access to buy 500 at a time of something you shouldn't take more than 8 a day or for more than three days at a time without consulting a Dr and now I just realised what this is about...

In the UK we just see the Dr if we're in pain for more than three days because our system isn't evil.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If you neither hear nor see the words in your head, how do you experience them to reorder them?

[–] Piers 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes you think OP hasn't just been offered 10 million dollars to lay in a coffin for 48 hours?

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's because people try to kill themselves by taking lots of ibuprofen and it's both a bad way to go and a bad way to survive. Making it harder to access large amounts has been shown to reduce the amount of suicide attempts (as often actual attempts are somewhat impulsive.)

[–] Piers 5 points 1 year ago

People keep comparing this to how WotC had to give up more gorund than they started with after announcing their DnD bullshit. As someone who plays Magic I can tell you they do and get away with stuff like that multiple times a year and the DnD thing was a rare exception of people holding them to account. They've shown no signs of having changed things either.

Businesses who act like this know that in the long run they get very slightly more profit out of it than they lose from the times people stand up to them.

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I guess paying the people who do the work fairly is gonna probably put Netflix-land out of business. I hadn't thought of the plight of the poor defenceless multinational corporations until you pointed that out.

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