I disagree that it’s “hardwired in our brains”. It certainly has a strong cultural bias. Also, I kinda look at it like a gynologist: If you’ve seen 20 of them naked, it gets boring and you stop staring, I guess.

I assume it’s because France is a sane country.

“freedom” as in “free to economic growth” but not “free” as in “free to do what you want”

You might also be interested in the Panopticon.

In humans, there’s good things and there’s bad things. But most of it is actually in-between.

If you take out everything bad, that satisfies you for the moment. And then you go on, looking for further progress. You take out the almost-bad, the somewhat-bad. In the end, it leaves only the good. But that is not enough for a human to live on.

Constant surveillance leads to burnout and extremely high stress-levels.

oh wow, the second one is actually impressive. :)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15648655

I wrote a piece about why imaginary numbers are actually important. It’s in german though.

To sum it up, to every polynomial equation, there exists at least one solution to it, if you allow complex numbers to be solutions.

Oh that’s great news! We’re accelerating our development towards burn outs! Wait …

Well then I’m glad that everybody’s just like you. (/s)