To add some evidence (from a basic internet search, skimmed but not read in detail):
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/evidence-behind-putting-money-directly-pockets-poor
peto
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My point on art is that it can create an experience when perceived, rather than requiring you go there. If you listen to music, it will move you or it won't, but you can't choose (though you can lie). You can plug your ears but I don't think you can sit there and just choose to feel nothing.
At the risk of getting too mystic, creativity is the ability to explore the inner world, communication is the ability to path and map that world. Art is the ability to push someone into that world, potentially forcefully and against their will. All of this is quite separate from 'value' or 'worth'.
That said, capital is willing to pay for this because it has no connection to the inner world (interesting considering how it spawns some of the most foul and evil egregors out there.) They pay for solutions where necessary, but mostly they want it to be decoration within their egregors, defined only in those terms. You see this whenever anything gets committeed or focus-grouped out of their art-as-product.
Limits are imposed by culture and language, but those can be broken through, it's just hard. But the inner world is infinite and contains all possibilities there to be found and pathed.
It's going to depend a lot on the design of the pen. If it has interchangable nibs then yeah, should be able to just get a new feed.
If that isn't an option you might be able to get some milage out of super glue just make sure to not over-apply and to use tweezers or pliers so as to not get finger grease up in there. If you do that you will probably want to stick to water-based inks.
'No one is above the law' is a bold statement for a US attorney. I hope her king didn't hear her say that.
The best ones are when you scroll down the page and the video comes too. I wish suffering on no one but were I to meet that particular 'innovator'.
This is also known as the 'nice' rule.
A lot of the issue with this is that we are talking about a really energy-intensive way of solving this non-problem.
A better way is to train humans to stop falling for the bait. That is also rather hard though but I'm pretty sure you can already get browser plugins that identify click bait headlines and just, hides them.
If we can get the costs to read an summarize an article down (and get an AI that understands things like facts and source quality) then there are a bunch of things it could do for us. Interpreting contracts and TOS bollocks come to mind, but LLMs as we have them today can't do that. They might end up part of the tool chain but they are presently insufficient.
I can't prove it but I am more certain that the first bit of worn armour ever made was to protect some guys dick than I am about gravity.
You know, I needed that.
I don't know. Weight alone is likely a poor measure, and one we see exploited in combat sports to the harm and even death of competators. Working that specifically out is a question for sports scientists I think, rather than basing it on the feelings and biases of spectators.
What I am talking about is the cultural acceptance of sectioned competition, and that it doesn't reduce the achievements and glory of competators.
It's worse than that. Some folks actually reject the idea that those poorer than them should have nice things, or even OK things. This is why there are voucher programs, why so much social housing (when it was built) are ugly, plain boxes showcasing the worst of brutalism.