The lack of blinking might also be a deer in the headlights look.

People prefer carrots to sticks.

I sometimes think those in the environmental movement have made a mistake with their messaging. It is too often "we need to suffer to save the planet". It could also be things like:

  "Why do you want to pay more to drive a giant expensive gas guzzling vehicle to work so that you can pay for a giant expensive gas guzzling vehicle to go to work in".

  "Why do you want to pay for extra electricity when conservation and efficiency will help save money for other things"

  "Single use items are thing you pay for time and  time again. Durable maintainable items you pay for once."

  "Throwing things in the garbage is like paying to store things forever (landfills are not free)"

It is true that there are, at times, good reason to do things that are not at the extreme of conservationism and environmentalism. If the messaging was a little more carrot than stick we might see more progress.

That ignores the fact that there is a incredibly well founded coalition of organisations with idiological (climate change by its nature requires collective action, but collective action is bad...) and economic (big oil, big tobacco...) motivations that has been running a massive desinformation campaign for decades. We know desinformation is much easier than factual information, climate change is almost a poster boy for this. It would have not mattered an iorta if "environmentalists" would have used different messages, in fact they primarily used exactly the messages you proposed, the fact that you remember it as being ”you all have to suffer to save the planet" just shows how powerful the desinformation campaign was. Because that was their prime message, not the one of climate activists.

It’s also been tried (endlessly), but society is too enamoured with consumption and GDP as the principle guiding metric for it to have had much effect. Some large number of people, wilfully or otherwise, reject intellectualism as a whole.

We recently got an elevator for my mother, so pulleys.

Just for interest .. that doesn't always follow, a neighbour recently installed a screw lift elevator from garage sub level to their living floor level - no pulleys!

(But good use of an inclined plane wound about a column.)

I have been using a straight razor for about 30 years. It is nice to not have to buy anything for it (but a little bit of a pain to sharpen).

The wheel. Fire.

I run my laptop from my couch all the time and I do not even need to install anything on my phone:)

That out of the way, it looks like a nice project except I am running linux on my laptop. Is there something like this for Xfce?

Another source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/mystery-8647-etched-d...

If I were to pick two to watch again it would be Primer and 12 Monkeys.

How else would it have been done?

I think you misunderstand me. I meant that it had been done deliberately to make a point about AI.

I did misunderstand.

“interesting”