I can’t find a picture to post but recently the building fad in my country for single family homes is cubes. Literally, cubes. The houses are made of grouped cubic structures. No rounded surfaces, no decorative details. A bit like watered down brutalism.

Can’t imagine those houses aging well.

Meanwhile, old stone houses just look… good. Renovated, awsome. Abandoned, creepy. No ghosts though.

Can we get a transcript of a testimony of an escaped North Korean? I am sure we will all de delighted to read it.

Giraffes are often recorded killing and maiming lions. Those orange checkered XL horses are dangerous. It should be clue the food they eat and how extreme their biology is.

That is Portugal; those are our license plates. But the place felt awfully familiar to me.

Can we get an example? Because after reading the thread I am still as unknowing as I was about what you are trying to start a conversation on.

It is widely accepted that music, as an artistic expression, as been used to convey emotion, both to arise it and to lessen it, since its inception. To argue that “uncurated or just music in general” can be “overstimulating” makes quite the claim.

Music and songs are easily associated to states of mind and entire genres exist around one specific emotion. From classical, to blues, heavy metal, fado, jazz, ethnic, every song or music ever written by a human being conveys meaning.

If, and this is a elephant sized if, what you are trying to debate on is what most will call “elevator music”, that non descript, hollow, shallow, shell of ordered sounds thinly veiled to resemble music, then, personally, I’m glad it not a much more divulged genre.

If not, then, please, give us an example.

I’ll leave an example of what I listen to when I need a sound wall to fill the background while I work with my hands.
Dead Combo - Movimentos Perpétuos

Or, for something a bit more traditional:

Carlos Paredes - Verdes Anos

Oi, censura a matrícula do carro que está no canto superior direito da foto; vê-se perfeitamente.

p.s. as duas matrículas dos carros que aparecem nas imagens são legíveis; respeito à privacidade, por favor.

O imbecil que estacionou aí merece uma multa.

E onde é isto? Parece familiar.

If you manage to ingest and keep down an entire gallon of pure, raw, bee juice, without your body violently and explosively purge it in a very biological way to preserve your existence, I congratulate you.

The company I work for pays horrors for the full MS suite. That alone should be enough to force some thinking.

But I digress.

I’m not a desk jokey but I have to fill a sheet daily and occasionally a few other documents. I only use LibreOffice.

When I first received the models, they were filled with errors and bad formatting. And printing the sheet always put out shrunk versions of the document, hard to read. I got printed copies along with the digital files, “in case I couldn’t open the files”.

My spreadsheet jailbroke the document, allowing me to rectify the errors and the prints come out using the entire sheet, with better end results than the official version.

Someone, very well paid, is wasting a lot of money.

You act according to your own thoughts and ethics and denounce whatever it is you dislike in your country.

The usual lot says Excel is better. Haven’t found a difference yet.

In practical terms, there is nothing stopping you nor anyone else. To be cold and scynical, someone will clean up the mess afterwards.

But in what form do we want to see such right come into full fruition?

And I am not against the right to dispose of our life as we see fit; I’ve been too close to human misery in sickness and age to be that calous.

I understand. Thank you for the clarification.

And, not to deter you from your goal, you have a lot to pick from.

There is a lot of background from which you can pick and build from but what would be the end result you are envisioning? I can tell I got to know a particular “tradition” where no rituals exist; initiates undergo a sort of tutelage under more experienced individuals but at some point it is supposed for each individual to set out their own path. No dogma, no saints, demons or higher powers; they just take the universe as a power source and it is the people tapping into it that can use it for “good” or “bad” endings.

The wiccans I got to know were essentially neo pagans, drawing from a favourite personal pantheon and ancient culture. I knew a Neo-aegiptyian priestess, a couple of neo-druids, a neo-norse shaman, one new age witch and one neo-meso american priest. Each just associated with an ancient culture they most closely identified with and delved into it. I watched magic circle drawing, offerings of food and items to gods and even assisted in a ritual of personal sacrifice, through fasting, sweating and intense physical exertion.

But I sense this is not what you expect as information. Feel free to pose more specific questions.

What do you mean by world building? Honest question.

I’ve had some contact with wiccans, pagans and other people that held belief in the supernatural and watched some of rituals but I don’t know what to tell you that may go into what you are looking for.

I don’t know what my most played song currently is but I can tell you what has been the most played for the last 15 years and it’s this one.

Every single time I install a computer this is the soundtrack to test the audio. At first it was annoying, the dog barked, kids screamed and the elderly cursed me. Now, of I don’t play I’m asked if I’m feeling under the weather.

We can shut down 90% of datacenters today, suffer a slight inconvinience to our lives and keep living.

We have a farm failure…

A single ticket sold is already one ticket too much.

That is a very poor equivalence.

Powertools and machinery still require knowledge on how to do the work properly, account for future maintenance, test for leaks, etc.

Which is not what everyone is trying to do with “AI”. The “tool” is supposed to replace all necessity of trained and knowleadgeable workers and at some point the workers themselves.

Brave should not be recommended under any light. Telemetry, their own advertising, crypto, data mining, etc. I used it for some time and I do not recommend it.

So, essentially, the screws are being turned, only slower.

How come? The way you’re explaining it, it seems the situation is being exagerated.