@brainsturbator Still trying to find the origin of your reply.
For better or worse, I occasionally rely on all three, though shirt-cuff notes are more prevalent than napkin math.
@brainsturbator I had a 1990 JVC PC-Y555 that rocked for 27 years. With RCA ins, btw, which were much harder to find in subsequent years. Made scores of mixtapes on that one. Served as my monitor speakers for many a desktop and laptop.
If you've got to go around coercing, assassinating, brainwashing or tricking key people into the right course of action on a regular basis to keep the plan intact, it probably means the plan isn't too sturdy and resilient... ~ Isaac Arthur, Psychohistory (YT)
If free will is an illusion (and there are good grounds for hypothesizing this), then it is a damn convincing one--and one that serves critical functions in the existing social order (an essential underpinning of moral responsibility and accountability). ~ Philip Tetlock