This is an example of it going poorly but advertisers to an extent do it on purpose. Kool-aid gets used to refer to powdered drink mixes like band-aid is used to refer to adhesive bandages and, in some regions, coke is used to refer to soda in general. The idea is to become so associated with the concept as to overshadow the competition.
At the same time, lawyers also fight the phenomenon because if your product name becomes the concept itself it loses all trademark enforcement. There’s a chart posted on this site somewhere that shows words losing trademark status because of court rulings, but I guess I didn’t save it. The term is “genericized trademark”.
“While initially gleeful at the imminent damage to his competitor’s brand, Kool-Aid Man would soon be confronted with the irony inherent in his own vast advantage in consumer mind-share.”
That’s why it’s important to build a personal security and privacy model and a good idea of what you are and are not willing to give up. Instead of blindly chasing after the things that everyone else does. Since for most people, that idea of living in a forest is usually unobtainable
I saw a YT vid where they mentioned that you hear things differently at a 45 degrees angle because of the different heights of your ears. So it makes sense as a behavior associated with trying to better understand and observe something.
Expanding on why humans don’t do this (as often) the fleshy part of our ears is functional. Depending on how sound bounces in your brain can determine some additional features that it couldn’t just from two ears. If I recall correctly variation in ear shape between people also creates difficulty in creating identical universal 360 sound. Can’t help but find it fascinating we’ve had ray traced games for a bit now but sound is mostly still just faked and not simulated.
I literally waded through hundreds of HRTFs and didn’t find a single one that works, all are worse than panning/delay because there’s some nasty “nope this should be in the back, not front” discontinuity somewhere. Try for yourself, you might be more lucky. Best I can hope for is an app that lets me do photogrammetry on my ears to create a personalised one.
Regarding the sound that comes out of games though you can do a lot to be more realistic without getting HRTFs involved, the whole general theme of simulating the impact of geometry and textures on sound. Early 3d sound systems simply said “there’s an infinitely large room here, you can hang up speakers everywhere, say whether the room has reverb for that speaker or not, go nuts”, while newer stuff bounces audio waves off geometry so sound can be occluded, go multiple paths towards the two virtual microphones (your ears), and be influenced by the floor texture (say grass vs. tiles) differently. All that is about recreating real-world timbre, not so much 3d perception.
Basically the only thing that HRTFs do is enable up/down detection. Left/right is practically flawless with pan/delay, directly front/back is technically ambiguous but generally obvious from context.
To expand a little bit - the ridges of your outer ear will attenuate certain frequencies of sound more than others depending on the height of the source relative to your head. Animals that don’t have these outer ear ridges can still find the source of a sound laterally since they have two ears, and tilting their head tilts the plane of their ears letting them get some vertical sound perception.
In the smarter every day vid on this topic, they had a blindfolded person point to the source of a sound (succeeded no problem), and then packed clay into the outer ear ridges to mess with that sound attenuation. The person was able to keep their lateral sound perception but the vertical was all over the place.
Totally understandable. Haven’t used windows at all, home or work, in at least a decade. However, I went through my insufferable Linux zealot phase about 15 years ago.
I was an annoying judgemental ass, but I got better.
That’s not to say that I still don’t honestly consider Linux a better option in most use cases. I just don’t generally wade in past the most simple explanations of stuff.
If people want to switch, they will. I’ve realized I’m not doing anyone any favours by being pushy.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Less pixelated, so either they got it from another place to shop it or its legit.
The main picture has both eyes on the same position, as if the eye was copied, while this one has one slightly opened. This can be done in photoshop so idk but noticed it so I wanted to mention it.
Having these two pics, the second one has more chances of being the real one mainly because of 1.
Not saying it’s good, but context matters. Early humans would be seeing each other naked nonstop, if it’s not about forcing someone to do something harmful then it’s probably not a “send them to jail” situation
Personally I'd say an adult exposing themselves around children is harmful. Not to mention basic violation of people's right not to see your junk. What the hell kind of apologist bs is this?
As I said, context matters. Just for a second, let’s imagine an elderly person in hospice care, living with their adult child. In the course of the adult child caring for their parent, a grandchild sees that person naked. Is that harmful? What specifically is it about seeing an adult naked that is harmful to a child?
There are many cases where seeing an adult naked would be harmful, and the scenario I just outlined is different than this picture. Seems like it’s maybe a dad or uncle with bad taste who thinks it’s funny. If that’s what it was and those were my kids I’d be fucking yelling at the guy. But I wouldn’t be like “you’re a sexual predator, time to go to jail.”
The naked human body is our natural state. I don’t want to see a bunch of naked people, and don’t get naked in front of random people. But that’s because of our culture, and what being naked signifies about our intentions, not because there’s some natural law that doing so is harmful.
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