Since the video’s point is that awnings are too unattractive for people to use them, then hot damn is that so much worse. Solid metal gates - for when you want your house to look like a convenience store in a bad neighborhood when riots are about to start.

Boy, in 1994 this would’ve been huge!

While that may be true, it doesn’t make people want them any more than they currently do. People want to have their full window view available whenever they want it. This means it needs to be retractable and extendable at the push of a button. And once you have that, it’s easy and helpful for it to also be automated

Make them better looking and push-button retractable from inside, and people will want them.

EDIT

At 16:40 he suggests high tech awnings that automatically unfurl and retract to provide the ideal amount of shade on each day of the year. Seems like a nearly perfect solution to me

Haha i have some very funny news to tell you! The lyric is actually “tenth avenue FREEZE OUT”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Avenue_Freeze-Out

In some cases yes, but in some the misheard lyrics are actual better

Oh snap that’s so geeky cool!

Akshuly, the trope about goldfish having just a few seconds of memory is totally false.

https://www.livescience.com/goldfish-memory.html

The same is true for all companies’ self driving cars, and the companies would gladly sell all that data to China or any other government

The people who are against the concept of free will say that because you have innate desires for food sex and entertainment, that you have no choice to not act upon those in a desires and therefore any delusion that you carry about the choices that you make being done of an entirely unencumbered and Free Will are false.

That’s not the argument against free will. The argument is just that there’s a physical process to every thought in your head. When you think of a tree, inside your brain a specific pattern of neurons and chemical messengers activate which is what creates the thought of a tree.

When you’re consciously deciding whether to eat a donut or a salad, a specific pattern of neurons and chemical messengers are the mechanism by which that decision process is occurring. The pattern of neurons and chemical messengers happening in your brain is the physical mechanism that is performing the decision making process.

There are no thoughts outside of the ones generated by your neurons and chemical messengers. The pattern of neurons and chemical messengers IS the thought that you’re thinking. Your brain (and the thoughts that occur within it) is a physical object that obeys the laws of nature, the same as all physical objects do.

The older i get, the more the past feels like not so long ago. When i was a kid, the decade before i was born seemed like it was wildly in the past. But now as an adult i feel like even the early 1800s isn’t really that long ago. I think part of this is from my mind expanding over time, but i also think part of it is media doing a better job of showing what the past was really like

I didn’t do what you said. Did you read the links?

I’m not. Did you reply to the correct comment?

Huh, TIL. In general society I’ve only ever heard of trolls being male

Neither of those are pejoratives, they’re just the words for your positions

https://www.askdifference.com/natural-vs-supernatural/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

Everything you just wrote in your followup reply here continues to fit into those categories as far as i can tell.

But where does your desire and capacity to do that thing come from? It arises from the physical arrangement of neurons/hormones/etc. in your brain and body

Pot kettle black

Interesting to know, thanks. But how is that any different than for example a troll as it pertains to men?

What if you never had it and never can have it because its not a havable thing

Even in that scenario, the “conscious choice” happened via some particular arrangement of neurons/chemical messengers/etc. Your argument is a “god of the gaps” argument- science doesn’t know everything about how the brain works, therefore some supernatural process called “free will” is the cause of the stuff science can’t explain yet.

(No knock on you, you’re having a good faith debate :)