Hold your hand up 12 inches from your face: you’re seeing your hand as it was a nanosecond ago. Everything you look at is, to one degree or another, in the past. The farther away in space, the more ancient in time.
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) November 25, 2018
Given the latency of the human nervous system and the variability thereof, you’re really seeing your hand as it was 10-30ms ago.
In shocking news, the Chinese state prioritises the global financial and trade interests of Chinese exporters over bailing out the Russian statehttps://t.co/ibw1lYwhPm
— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) July 25, 2022
I know, SHOCKING, right? WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?
I have a LEAF (love it) + an eBike. There're so many people who will not try a bike, ever, so EVs = FTW for those people and the collective effort of reducing emissions!!!
Perfect will not happen. MUCH better CAN happen. eBikes + EVs
— Andrea Learned #ClimateInfluence 🌱 Ⓥ 🚲 (@AndreaLearned) July 25, 2022
I’d never ride any form of bicycle or motorcycle on any road in the US ever. Every single person I know who bikes regularly has been hit by a car, some multiples times. Every single one.
Every recommendation algorithm except for TikTok seems to have this problem and I find it frustrating. This is their real secret sauce
Spotify, Twitter & YouTube are also big culprits in assuming if you engaged with some content once then they need to drown you with it for days. https://t.co/kipB1Tweb9
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) July 25, 2022
Try watching women’s tennis on YouTube and see what happens. 🙁
Whenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s. pic.twitter.com/0qqfngmDWz
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) July 25, 2022
My grandmother was a 1950s housewife. To her, pizza was an exotic food that she would actually eat. Mexican or Chinese food was far too strange and exotic to even consider partaking of.
Also: Do people not understand that the reason we station nukes in allied countries is so that those countries don't feel the need to get their own nuclear weapons?
Is this not a commonly understood fact?
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 25, 2022
Most people do not commonly understand a goddamn fucking thing. Most people know so close to nothing as not being worth talking with.
Think that makes me arrogant? FUCKING GOOD. CRY HARDER.
Housing is not highly subsidized by the government; though there's a mortgage interest tax deduction, it's generally outweighed by property tax. As for renters, few get help from government. https://t.co/xGBk0YjboF
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 25, 2022
Wrong. Housing is extremely heavily subsidized in harmful ways by the government indirectly: the Fed buying up bundles of mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac backstopping loans that would otherwise be unprofitable to make, and a long history of too-low interest rates. Those are all subsidies that greatly pushed up housing costs.
China is not coming to Russia’s rescue.
Ian Welsh is in his basement weeping now.
Icons for Mac apps used to be so cool. I remember sitting next to Christian at Cultured Code as she showed me how he used Maya to create the 3D model before filling in the details in Photoshop. pic.twitter.com/4hTdtO45Ra
— Collin Donnell (@collindonnell) July 20, 2022
I remember when applications had color and actual functionality. They looked nice and could do what you wanted them to do. Now we’re locked into brutalist authoritarianism in everything for “security” (read: scamming the rubes). We’re not even allowed to have color anymore.