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Yeah we aren't anywhere close to the point of states breaking out of the union. Some people will call for it, maybe even a lot. But as soon as they realize what is required that shit will stop immediately. California would quite literally need to go to war with the union to gain that independence regardless of what they voted. So not only would they need to actually vote for it but then they'd have to be willing to go to war and kill and die for that separation and their independence.

As strong as people feel, we aren't even close to that point. Not to mention it would fail; none of the states currently have any hope of competing against the US military machine. Give us a couple hundred more years to really really deteriorate and siphon all value from the people and land and we may be there.

It's hard to truly internalize this but no matter what you think about something and/or how wrong you think someone else is, we are walking through life with imperfect imaginings of what other people think and feel. Trying to make sense of people is even harder than making sense of a person. And we are quite literally incapable of truly knowing what goes on in someone else's head.

Definitely ask these questions but don't drive yourself crazy if people don't make sense. The behaviors and actions we witness in others are only the emergent characteristics of a lot of brain activity that we aren't privy to.

This post is a journey, not a destination.

That people are inherently good. This not being the case is reinforced near daily by people's behaviors.

Thank you, I appreciate this response to my comment. It's given me a wider perspective on the topic in general. It's almost like that arbitrary side is what keeps the wobble in humanity's path which forces us to continue advancing and understanding the world, never becoming complacent.

I like it! No need to know the language or anything. Things collect in basins like rain in bowl-shaped rocks so even without our current level of technology it would still have some indication of saving/gathering.

People in this thread are throwing around the term "smarter" a lot and I think we should avoid that. How quick you pick things up might be an indicator for being smart but it is only one aspect. The following are generalizations and there are always exceptions so keep that in mind.

What you will find in life is a lot of the people like you describe have generally shallow knowledge of a subject but are capable of ramping up quickly and filling out that deeper knowledge as needed. Meanwhile, the folks who tend to take longer and study more retain more of the knowledge and are more capable at using it without supplemental data or analysis.

It is the difference between knowing an answer and knowing enough to quickly find or intuit the answer.

Not necessarily. I can see an icon with some randomly-sized vertical lines and think of rain. Or an icon might have a mountain peak silhouhette that generates a random mountain peak. Symbolism doesn't work in the sense we can't just design something but I'd argue we could probably come up with something that is at least indicative of saving to people regardless of language. Obviously the floppy fills that for now but if we could go back and drive the adoption of the icon, what icon could we create that would most indicate saving to people regardless of technology.

(I understand there isn't a correct answer to this, just wanted to read people's thoughts on ideas)

This would work for the foreseeable future I think. At some point tech changes and although we could just update the icon as that happens I'm wondering if we can design something that is at least resistant to becoming obsolete (like a floppy or even hdd/ssd) and is mostly recognizable to most people. It's an impossible question but there could be some cool ideas that come up out of this post.

This would work as long as the device the user was using adopted localization properly and all applications supported all languages. Consider also there are people who can speak a language but aren't able to read it. Those are a small percentage but they exist.

The goal of this would be to come up with an icon that would be most recognizable as save to the most people and future people after languages have changed.

Yeah I think something along those lines is probably what we'd end up with. We couldn't do something that is truly universally understood to mean save but I think we'd get a large percentage of users who would make the connection instinctively.

lmao, well done!