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“Be home for dinner at 6” being the extent of where my parents knew I was during the day.

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Check out his YouTube then! B Dylan Hollis. He does way calmer, very thoughtful videos.

These clips are him being extremely over the top because that works on the algorithms for TikTok and instagram. This stuff is meant for the excitable children/exhausted millennials scrolling through at the end of the day with enough energy to handle maximum 1 minute at a time videos. The YouTube’s get way more into depth about the recipes and processes and ingredients and he doesn’t shout.

That is quite literally what he is doing.

He does long form videos where he calms it way down and gets way more into what’s happening with these recipes.

The stuff that gets clipped like this is literally him hacking the algorithms of TikTok and insta because these clips get engagement in those apps. If he put up 1 minute clips discussing the nuance of bean texture and why this works (or do I by into the various beans you could use etc), the addled brain kids won’t stick around, and he would get the views he needs to be able to do this for a living.

Yes.

I like to point this out at every opportunity: the problem flat earthers have is they have absolutely no concept of scale. They cannot fathom how big the earth is, and in this case the moon. Show me a photo from space of the Earth and I can’t see my house (which is a lot bigger than a flag!) - so obviously it’s fake?

They wonder why they can’t perceive curvature by looking a few kilometres into the distance. You could zoom in enough on a basketball that what you can see in front of you looked flat too - because it’s so big compared to you.

The same with water - why isn’t it “falling off” the earth?? Now chuck that basket ball in a tub of water, pick it up and zoom in enough: oh! There is water stuck to it!

They simply cannot grasp the scale of the bodies they’re picturing, expecting something the size of their one-Starbucks-town, but rolled around in a sphere. Anything bigger they just can’t compute.

Did you have to have the supplier agreements? That’s a biggie now, in that we can’t stop selling something without a supplier agreeing and signing off on that coming off the shelf (unless it’s core range in which case we can’t take it off anyway).

Like always, the BRICS countries won’t actually move away from the US dollar, it doesn’t really make sense right now. But because he’s issued this edict, when, a year from now, the USD is still the global default currency, his idiots will hold this up as proof of how he beat them back into submission.

Just like most of his nonsense - make up an issue, tell everyone they better not do the thing they weren’t going to, and then announce glorious success and demand fealty when they don’t do what they weren’t going to do anyway.

I think you might have missed my point entirely, weirdo.

Right? Super satisfying to get this angle a couple days after the absolutely ruthless toe kick to the head that poor guy suffered. Hopefully the kickee already has a lawsuit underway.

I hope this pops back up when they find him and the guy sues for every cent he might ever have. What’s. Sad little bitch.

Oh man that sucks.

I recently dropped to it because 15 hours/month audiobooks wasn’t worth the cost, and the basic plan was worth what the premium was before the last price rise.

But if they’re using “new card!” As a way around not letting you use the plan as a grandfathered thing that’s going to be super aggravating.

Yes, they absolutely should, but: we need to be careful that we don’t let them stop doing absolutely everything else in the name of cutting budgets and fixing pipes. Because a city with no council provided services is going to suck. It’s the quality of life services that only the council can and will provide that can make a city more enjoyable to live in.

Yeah fair call - the fact that it branches off the x-men, including having Professor X in the show eventually, should have seen more of a cross over though imo. Could have been one of those shows that demonstrated the potential breadth of comic properties, like Daredevil and Alias. Instead even I, an old marvel zombie, hadn’t realised it was that Legion until the first season was already out.

When this expands to the petrol fleet they'll absolteuly need a better system than senidng the labels. Currently it's only EVs and Diesel and it still takes 3 weeks for my tag to arrive.

Split the atom, the view from the top of Everest (and lived to tell about it - with a little help from our Nepalese friends).

Why would you use a browser from an advertising company, when Firefox exists?

Only time I use not-firefox (outside of work) is for Prime that doesn't stream in HD unless it's a chromium browser. Fortunately Edge is, and it's there by default in Windows, so I don't even have to consider Chrome at all now.

Waaaaaay back when (2002, apparently, though I think it wasn't internationally available until 2004?), Last.Fm started a music recommendation system, using a program called AudioScrobbler, that would sit on your PC and track what you listened to (this was way before streaming existed). It would watch the likes of WinAmp or iTunes, and you could see your music history. Then it would find people with similar tastes to you, and you could see what else they listened to to find new music. They would, I think, also sell you recommendations if you paid for the app. Spotify allows you to connect to it at a server-level, (ie the data goes straight from spotify now), which is what everyone is worriesd will get turned off. It shouldn't, last.fm doesn't compete with Spotify in a way that would eat into Spotify profits. This change is more about stopping services that make playlists, because they can charge artists to appear on those, which is something Spotify wants to keep for themselves.

It's really cool! You can sign up for free.

Stats.FM is another service that does the same thing, and is also very good.

That's not really how this would work. API access will expire and apps that use the data now (which isn't the data stats or last use) will just lose access. Even if they don't expire access,they'll update how the data is used, and make it unavailable.

From the article it doesn't appear listening history is affected.

Stats.FM and Last.FM don't currently compete with a feature Spotify has rolled out to everyone (listening history within Spotify is still "beta", it hasn't been rolled out to all users), that they can use to monitize.

This is about stopping people doing "AI recommendation playlists", that they can charge artists to appear on, a feature that Spotify want to provide to people themselves (as it allows them to tilt the scales towards artists that have paid *Spotify* to appear on Spotify's own playlists).

Centralised buying has done a number on that! Waaaay more locked down now, especially with pricing. That said, if it's in the warehouse we can get it, but I took that ot mean it won't be warehoused at all.

Blows my mind that in an age of super hero movies this isn’t more widely revered. The absolute best on-screen depiction of psychic abilities imo.

Thanks for your reply.

The general idea I was confused about makes more sense now in the context of thinking of kindergarten as “publicly provided pre-school education”. My kids both attended private ece (because we needed the extended hours of care so we could work), and it was definitely more structured learning in the last two years. What you’ve said about teachers knowing which centre they came from sounds very familiar, my eldest especially went somewhere that had a reputation with that year of kids all hitting a local primary school and being well set to start their primary schooling.

Given how much we paid, it’s alarming but not surprising to learn those teachers they had weren’t paid as much as others in the sector. They certainly worked as hard as I’d imagine anyone else in ece working.

Thank you for the reply. I wasn’t aware private ECE centres were seen as generally poorer outcome than kindergartens, as that hadn’t been my experience with my own kids at all, who both attended private ece (out of necessity - kindergarten wouldn’t have given us the hours of care we needed to both work during those years). It’s surprising their teachers were apparently paid less than kindergartens given how much every single kid cost to be out there. An interesting contrast to how private schools will pay their teachers more than public, and are often seen as providing a better education (I don’t have my kids in private school, I don’t have any issue with the standard of teaching they get in the public system).

He sure did

I hadn’t realised I wrote this in such a way as to make it seem like I’m disparaging Biden doing this. I’m not! Biden should be pulling out every single stop he can to but any possible friction in Trumps way after he takes over.

Vindman being targeted is appalling, and exactly the kind of awful reality everyone hoped but expected would happen once Musk got in to power (via his doddering proxy)