You always see at the same speed. Your reaction time slows down.
Think of it this way. You step on a Lego and it hurts instantly. Doesn't matter if you're sleepy or drunk or wide awake. You feel it right away. Same with seeing; it's instantaneous.
DagwoodIII
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Tech bro Libertarians love the novel "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein.
One plot line in the book is that the main computer for the Lunar penal colonies achieves self awareness. A computer repair man discovers that the HOLMES computer is starting to tell itself jokes and gives it the name 'Mycroft' after Mycroft Holmes.
Later, Mycroft meets a woman and creates a female personality, Michelle.
It's a pretty good book.
True story. I saw an interview with Ivanka where she said that when she was in her twenties she asked her father not to date women younger than she was.
You want a major mind fuck?
"Stand On Zanzibar" by John Brunner. Brunner's novel won the 1969 Hugo for Best Science Fiction Novel. It is set in the early 21st Century. The author based his predictions on Toffler's work. He imagined things like Detroit being a ghost town; legalized pot; the internet; AI ; well paid adults needing roommates and a lot of other things. He got enough right to be very scary indeed.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
There is a book that gave a scientific explanation and it was written fifty years ago.
"Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. Toffler was a sociologist. He studied what happened in the past when there were radical changes in society. The first great wave was the switch from hunter/gatherer tribes to farming towns. 5,000 years later there was a leap from farming to industry. Both times there were people who couldn't or wouldn't adapt themselves to the new order.
'Future shock' was his name for the madness of people who would do anything to hold on to a past that was already dead.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tech-billionaire-parents-limit/
Not even the first story to pop up in the search.
Not a lawyer, but I know that a guy like Donnie doesn't own things directly. For tax reasons, his plane is owned aby ABC Co, which is owned by DEF, which leases it to Donnie for $1.00 a year.
If you want to learn to talk to people, start by talking to old people.
Folks who were around before the internet actually spent a good portion of their lives just making small talk with strangers.
Next, develop some hobbies/pursuits that involve socializing. Adult league sports teams, or volunteer work, or community theater.
If I buy it I'll forget about it.
If I don't buy it, I'll spend the next twenty years thinking about that cool think I didn't buy when I had the chance.
It was a stupid little statue of a fairy sitting next to a mirror and I still wish I'd brought it.
Ahh, the good old days, when a wife beating drunk was next to Dennis the Menace on every comic page.
USSR imploded with little help from the West.
Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan; Solidarity trade union in Poland was homegrown; Chernobyl wasn't sabotaged; the old guard who went against Gorbachev hated the West more than anyone.
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New Yorker here. Yes, it's possible for a working person to have a great apartment in Manhattan. Either they moved in early and have a rent subsidized/controlled place, or they won an apartment lottery in a new building.
The thing that's most unrealistic is when you see empty parking spaces any where.