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Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature

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though you may be referencing something generally known that I do not know.




I've literally never heard anyone talk about it; otherwise I'd've used their name for these emotional states.  I don't have a name for them, I just [think I] understand what they are.




prevents intentional obfuscation for humor's sake




I think it's slightly deeper than that in the sense that, if you can't obfuscate for humor's sake, you can't obfuscate for malicious purposes either.  So doing it is always in earnest, and thus [generally] perhaps perceived to be in earnest by the average member of that culture.


Think about why the modal English speaker groans at puns- there's a specific emotion that mediates this, and I think it's emergent from... something, but outside of the disgust one feels when one perverts the language, I don't actually know why people would feel this otherwise.  Assuming it is disgust mediating the interaction, though, it makes sense that playing with words implies the intent is hostile to the individual or group, but if group cohesion is high enough that nobody really thinks about it in those terms then maybe they just don't feel the [protective] emotion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I've always found OS X to be extremely barebones as far as functionality goes.  I do like that, but I also like most DEs except for maybe GNOME 3, so maybe I'm not the best judge.


Windows does a lot more, especially because it allowed itself to advance beyond the state of the art in 1984 (or rather, 1980, since OS X is just a copy of OS 1 is just a rip-off of what Xerox was doing at PARC).  The Start Menu, and searching within it, is far and away superior to the way macOS handles applications (and Linux splits the difference and fails at both; both KDE and Gnome suffer from this, though in different ways).


OS X still has some weird bullshit, too- specifically the way it fails to allow you to copy folders in anything resembling an intuitive way.  "So you don't get confused"?  Yeah, not buying it.


Oh yeah, and keyboard shortcuts belong on Ctrl, not Alt/Command.  It's a stupid compromise and Apple is just straight-up wrong here- I get you can customize it but it's still bad.  I mean, they literally had the NOMODES guy [Larry Tesler] working for them and they still couldn't figure out that the ergonomics of holding down Alt-C are strictly inferior to Ctrl-C?  Come on.


By the way, the best mobile OS ever designed was webOS and I will not hear slander otherwise.  Yes, iOS and Android ripped off some of the good parts, but they didn't get all of it...