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Maybe designers should research why we are not redesigning things like power sockets, forks, knives, shoelaces every other month.


But we are...

I have seen quite a few redesign for fork and knifes for people with disability. It is also very dismissive, just because current sockets works, it does not mean there is no space for improvement for more secure, or reliable socket, and the way we found out if such thing exist is with design! Like this one...


One could call the desktop environment (OS frontend) an appliance, and we certainly redesign appliances and scheduling software frequently.


That productivity OS for power users does exist. It's free and you can even run Windows games in it now.


Haha I know, I run Linux dual booted 50/50 with Windows now and often game on it.

It still has a lot of janky behaviour though - like Chrome tabs on Wayland not being draggable (off/on the window), no dark mode support on Chrome, workspaces per monitor don't exist and I have yet to find a terminal emulator as nice as iTerm2.

All-in-all though, I am pretty happy with it and will continue to use it. Happy to see a growing focus on desktop usability and hope to see that continue to grow in the near future


Let's make the question more tricky. All you know are two things: * One doctor is white, one doctor is black * One of them has IQ 90, the other has IQ 150

You are allowed to choose based on this information only.

(I am what many people would call an "alt righter" and I would choose the doctor with IQ 150). I'm curious how other demographics would answer (white liberals, etc.)


It appears to be a meta-analysis of literature in the field of psychology.


This is a false dichotomy.

The taboos about races / genetics are largely held and enforced by white people, not (just) by minorities.


In other words, the group that is supposed to be of superior intelligence, and which has the most to gain from a narrative of superiority, maintains, in your view, that they are not superior. Occam's Razor would say that they've come to this conclusion because they've found it to align most neatly with reality.


Or they would lose standing among their peers. All whites aren't in some secret club where we coordinate.


Oh nice you found Occam's razor. Can I borrow it to explain crime rates, test scores, etc.?


Power in the sense he got completely cancelled in the west for saying things that are not considered taboo in other parts of the world.


I think most people consider "truth" to require a higher threshold than "some people believe it somewhere".


The problem is that all our empirical data back up his (quite mild) point of view, whether we like it or not. I don't like it and don't think he does either.


It's good that all the bad people at J&J were working in the talc division, while the selfless honest people who never cheat or lie worked on the COVID vaccine.


It could also be a hate crime.


The perp could simply be crazy: for example he saw what he thought was the devil so stabbed him.


France literally has official names and policies for those areas, but all French politicians were like "what the hell is Trump talking about, is he crazy, ha ha funny Americans"


There are no UN sanctions against Russia.

The countries that invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc. decided to sanction Russia, but it's their own thing.


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