I listened to part or all of 315 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
About average for a day I guess.
MUZZA – Vale Acevedo
Esta canción es muy divertida.
600
If Bill Gates hadn’t sold off much of his Microsoft stock to fund his philanthropic foundation, he’d be worth $600 billion now.
Damn.
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find.
Scientists Propose Groundbreaking Method To Detect Single Gravitons. Good luck, as I suspect gravitons do not exist.
The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain.
Putin Is Hunting Down Ordinary People All Over the World.
They Bought Homes With Their Friends—and Now They Want Out. Yeah, that is a terrible idea.
Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician.
How the news media privileges dangerous and hateful Trump-Vance lies.
Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly. Those rocket scientists better stay away from any windows.
Eurnope
Dang, Europe got more problems than a mackerel that showed up at the shark convention by accident. Demographic-related, immigration-related, stagnation-related, war-related. They are fucked.
It makes America’s prospects look rosy by comparison.
Zemp
Anyone sane knew it was false already. Ozempic just provided irrefutable proof.
Naturalness
And to clarify again for the doubters, haters, losers, shouters and pouters, I don’t use any steroids, human growth hormone, hormone replacement therapy or anything that gets converted to a steroid (other than, you know, food) at all.
Unlike most who have good muscles and high vascularity, I’m all natural. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Deeper Sonos
Sonos workers shed light on why the app update went so horribly.
This was a miscalculation, but the article writer does not understand what Sonos was actually attempting here nor what was their end goal.
The reason for this bit of ridiculousness is that Sonos wanted to position themselves as a SaaS company (and have Wall Street see them that way), with recurring revenue based on subscriptions. The app was rewritten for that purpose, ignoring the needs of existing customers who were not sending Sonos any money on an ongoing basis. To the MBA way of thinking, those customer who’d already paid were worthless.
So in other words, the re-written app was intended to force new customers into a subscription model so that Sonos stock would be more appealing to Wall Street.
That’s the real story, not the Sonos-friendly propaganda in the Ars piece.
Conical
There is no privileged or even quantifiable position of simultaneity of non-shared light cones. “At the same time” is meaningless over such distances.
All of those answers are so bad and wrong. Dang.
Objective space and time does not exist. This question is like asking, “What color would a ball be if it were some color that doesn’t exist and cannot exist?” It’s just, fundamentally, a bad question. Intuition does not work here. It’s so easy to be wrong because most people rely on the intuitive answer, which is in fact not even close to accurate.
The top-voted answer is wildly incorrect and so is every other answer there. Asking about simultaneity in this case is asking a meaningless question with no answer at all.
Your Choice
I don’t think anyone should be allowed to claim they were “groomed” if they are 20 or older. It’s mostly women who claim this, for whatever reason. Men could never get away with such obvious BS.
The only people who can be groomed are children and the mentally retarded. Which one do full-grown women wish to be classified as again? Choose wisely.
Prove
A lot of people get Big Mad when you improve yourself and say, “You could do this, too. There is nothing special about me.”
They call it bullying. I call it reality.
Ragna
If there were a pandemic worse than Covid, I wonder if that’d lead to more mental illness, or less? I think probably less as so many of the psychological issues came from people convincing themselves that the world was ending and then…kinda nothing really happened of that scale.
Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever.
Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say.
Wyden Says Trillions in Taxes Dodged by Ultra-Rich Could Fund Social Security Until 2100.
How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal.
An unleashed Israel is humiliating its enemies.
From Gaza to Ukraine, why do so many modern wars last so long? The Hundred Years’ War ring any bells?
Bay Area metro area’s median home price hits $2M, the only city to do so in the US. Insane and unconscionable.
How will you save small midwestern towns without mass immigration? Perhaps not exporting all jobs to Mexico and China with NAFTA et al.?
Boeing union members are angry they lost their pension plan. They’re not likely to get it back.
Punching Octopuses Lead Fish on Hunting Parties.
MAGA Wants Transgression, and This Is What Comes With It.
The Elite’s War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity.
This map shows just how much rent is skyrocketing in every state.
My Nec of the Woods
Given the abject failure of Gideon the Ninth and presumably the entirety of The Locked Tomb series, I really wish there were a good series with lesbian space necromancers.
Because that could be so much fun. Alas, and such.