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@wendinoakland @evan that's not particularly fair to people who can't due to disability, or mental health, or family situation,nor a lot of things. They're not for me, I prefer my own cooking or my friends to practically anything that comes preassembled or prepared. I've never tried a meal kit but totally get why someone would.

@futurebird @wakame speaking of computers not being that smart, I always like the lesson of programming with real world examples. Like "program me to make a peanut butter sandwich". inevitably you get something like "step one, put peanut butter on bread" at which point you put the jar of peanut butter on a slice of bread.

a lot of human interaction assumes a computer is"smart" because it can do things quickly that you cannot do quickly and humans have worked very hard to make it appear that computers are thinking and doing stuff like a person. Machine learning is, unfortunately exacerbating this effect.

to the original question of how to reduce interuption? maybe that why my college professor got into too programming made me handwrite code with pencil and paper 😭 (not a flashback I needed)

@glyph I like brands. I tend to dislike the monopolies behind many of them though. Brands are useful shorthand. If a brand fucks up too hard then they get associated with negative imagery and eventually (probably) go away. Conversely if they do a reasonably decent job then it's easy for me to recommend them. my sister asked me what car I recommend, I don't drive anymore and have only bought two cars in twenty years. but they worked so well that I had no problem recommending that brand. Right now Stelantis is pushing ads to infotainment systems. it's really easy to tell her to avoid them.

@stinerman @evan Americans have a mythology of having the most perfect government by nature of rejecting a monarchy.