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> falling prey

I mean, it's fine for people not to dedicate all the brain to all the things all the time, some level of cargo-culting makes us way more efficient in more pressing / important task trough the day.

like, shaking a tv remote usually helps getting some life into it. there's some reason to it, it scrapes a little the oxidation between the batteries and the contacts, but for most people is cargo-culting, imagine everyone having to do a research on it before accepting shaking as the methodology, and this for all the daily tasks we do because we saw our parents do before us.



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