One thing I believe is that the less you're involved in fantasy, the more realistic your dreams are. So if you're a simple, practical man without beliefs in supernatural, your dreams will be about daily life; but if you read fantasy and have superstitious beliefs and watch a lot of movies, you will have more complex and bizarre dreams. I mean, it's hard to dream about something you haven't encountered.
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I hope you get better. You made the world a better place.
If cops are practically mandatory in a state, how is that statement meaningful? Why not just say state equals violence?
Or are you saying humans don't need to control each other? If they do, how does it make a diffrence under which label the oppression is practiced?
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My kids love Mr Beast. I'm uncomfortable with it and can't put my finger on it. It feels like he makes life look like you stand a good chance of having someone walk in and give you $100,000. Maybe there is no harm in thinking that? But it feels like the same thing as buying a lottery ticket. I guess YouTube is free? But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things? I admire the approach he takes with his craft but I don't really enjoy or respect the work.
1) His way of giving away things for free undermines the suffering people go trough to make a living; it makes effort and hardship look like a joke (maybe in the future no effort is required, and we are reminded about this possibility here, and it's sad); 2) It promotes consumerisms: getting stuff (phones, cars) is supposed to liberate us, and doing it in this way reveals how empty it all is; 3) It feels rarely personal and well-thought: he just throws away stuff, so it undermines the gift giving culture also.
As a "text editor", in MS Word (desktop), I know you can double-click anywhere and start writing (and rewriting on the same line won't affect the position of other inline "text cells").
As an "infinite grid", there is https://strlen.com/treesheets/, but it is not exactly geared toward your aim (more like a spreadsheet/outliner combo, or "hierarchical spreadsheet").
MS Word, huh. Hmm... Yes I guess it satisfies this one condition I have. Haven't used it for ages. But it's a key feature for me not to be cornered right from the start, so I would think it's ruled out anyway. Also, moving along the axes should be difficult without changing the document first, which is quite annoying, iirc.
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned a Microsoft product, since I like Unix more. I just thought the problem is understood more easily that way.
Treesheets seems quite nice. Maybe I'll try it out, but I'm still hoping to find a cleaner alternative.
I saw the title and went to look up a bunch of paper notepads :-)... (and can share if anyone is interested)
I tend to use Obsidian these days along with the excalidraw plugin (if you just want to try excalidraw without installing Obsidian: https://excalidraw.com/)
Hehe. Yeah, paper notepads would be nice, but they aren't big enough (they'd have to be tens of meters wide), and if I taped them together, they'd be difficult to handle. Also, erasing stuff is a pain. At one point I was considering using a wall paint for writing on the walls :).
Obsidian is probably a nice tool, but I'd like to have my rigid grid. Graphs are ok, but I don't like how inexact they are.
I'd like just to type, and click switching between cells.
In that case I think you want something that will 'vulcanize' with the material in the gasket, rather than being adhered... I don't know if that's feasible for your exact material but I know there are methods of rubber patching that are more akin to welding than glueing.
Yes, something like that crossed my mind also, but it could be that it's not feasible in small diy work. Have to check.
Hard to know whether a metal gasket would work here, but it's extremely unlikely as you need tight tolerances and high clamping force. Rubber is used here probably because those things are absent, and there is probably movement involved. Other commenter has the right idea, you can probably make a new gasket.
It's hard to say what kind of forces are involved. I could probably open the side panel and be able to see if I run it without water. I was hoping the rubber seal would mostly be flapping along mildly as a whole.
I guess it is very hard to not encounter fantasy in daily life (though most of it is marketed as reality).