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Keeping the thermometer in the 9 Pro seems like the most interesting part of this story.
I’ve started using the thermometer in my P8P. The UI is terrible. But sometimes I want to know how hot something is.
holy shit
I think this misses the cultural shift around the popularization of the web/Internet.
There used to be a high barrier to entry for creating content. The folks who were capable and willing to surmount that barrier posted stuff that nerds like us enjoyed. It was really hard to monetize (unless porn), so it was typically free.
Then social networks came along and made it easy for everyone to post. Just like normal society, the non-nerds started drowning out the nerdy early adopters.
Certain networks became cool (Twitter, Medium) because cool normies were on there (aka the network effect), and that pulled many nerds of self hosted software.
Other social networks were monetizable and incredibly accessible (YouTube), which pulled many other nerds off self hosted software.
Proprietary networks suck morally, but they’re incredibly easy to use and democratizing. That cranks their network effect to 11 and makes the old school web less rewarding.
As a smooth brain, I needed the explanation:
In this comic, we find Einstein imagining the scenario that would later help to make him famous, but before any particularly profound revelations have been established. It is currently just, so to speak, a flight of fantasy.
In a similar vein, the Title text refers to one of the long-standing issues about the orbit of Mercury - that it doesn’t quite orbit the Sun in the way that Newtonian physics would suggest. We now know that this is accounted for by General Relativity
ngl, not my favourite xkcd, but I did learn something. Maybe a few things.
Favermetrics raises a good point
Since Ottawa’s fuel levy was introduced in 2019
Only five years late. If there’s an election next fall, then a rollout starting in October will only get two or three payment cycles into Canadian’s accounts.
It’s a fine policy, but the public relations were bungled.
The left is waking up
Is it tho? In a Canadian context, I only see mobilization around Culture War wedge issues that are framed by the right.
Left leaning talking heads show up in current affairs shows, decry neoliberal policies, but that’s about it. There’s no mobilization around cost of living concerns, underemployment, or corporate gouging.
My ninety-two-year-old great aunt has said she’s glad she won’t be around much longer, while others in their seventies have put it more bluntly: it’s a good time to die.
My grandfather said the same thing in the 1990s. Plus ça change.
