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I think it's also important to set the record straight: a Swiss oligarch bribed this nazi dumbfack with a watch and some gold, in order to continue trading with a fascist country. Fuck him too.

Yeah, hearing stats about the average amount of times an article of clothing is worn in the west (which is somewhere between 7 and 10 times) is insane to me. I usually wear things until the fabric is too tired and fragile to be patched up, which is typically hundreds of times and many dozens of washes. My favorite pair of trousers has been going strong for definitely more than a thousand days of intense use, including hiking and other sports; they are close to giving up but still not quite there yet.

The mindset of buying clothes (or boots) to wear them less than a hundred times before discarding is just beyond me, and I'm way above the poverty line. From what I hear there are people who never wash some of their clothing categories (e.g. underwear), just throwing them out when they get dirty, and it drives me mad.

Like, some poor person was paid $2 per day or so to saw this in the heat of SE Asian summer, then it was shipped half way across the planet to you, and you throw all this effort away because "it's out of fashion" or "it has a small hole in it"? Really?

Apple maps used to use OSM for many parts of the world, and still uses it in some remote areas. They even have a team of employees being paid to edit/update it: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Apple

My biggest question is: why did the person have no teeth missing at death, did they die young?

Only if the touchscreen also has a fluffy texture.

Fuck AI companies! There is good faith use and then there's whatever the fuck this is. For some reason apps that are actually useful (OsmAnd, CoMaps, Mapy, ...) all figured out how to mirror OSM data on their own servers so that it's only downloaded once per app once per month or so, and then users never interact with osm.org. Meanwhile a trillion-dollar industry can't figure this shit out!

Honestly it's not the worst idea, the french have tried something like that during one of their revolutions.

Semi-relatedly, I'm salty they didn't push for duodecimal numbers and base metric on that, it would incorporate the only good part of imperial system & 12-based time system, not only into measurements but also all other aspects of life.

Then they could make time more consistent too, maybe have like 10000 (20736 in decimal) "metric seconds" in a day (which would mean 1 "metric second" ≈ 4 "normal" seconds) and derive stuff from there (e.g. 100 "metric seconds" in a "metric minute", 10 "metric minutes" in a "metric hour", 10 "metric hours" in a "metric day"). Would be really quite neat.

Of the two, Celsius is less arbitrary because it is based on actual measurable reproducible things and not "we threw in some salts in water, and guesstimated a human body temperature". It also makes a lot of sense in our post-industrial society because we do/don't want to freeze/boil water almost every day for a variety of uses. Water is both an extremely important substance for humans and its freezing/boiling points occur in everyday life (unlike air or metals).

To be fair, it's the other way around. Kelvin scale is Celsius scale shifted by -273 ℃.

NGL it would be awesome to have hardware manufacturers put a community distro like Bazzite on their devices. I think it would be fine for them to say something like "Runs Bazzite out of the box" in the promo materials, and even tweak it a bit themselves. But why lie about being in contact with the Bazzite team and sending them a device? Very weird.

Ads aren't just verbal, they are also visual. A "strong brand" would be instantly recognizable even if you don't know the language at all.

E.g. you probably almost immediately know what this is, without even knowing the alphabet:

That's kind of the point, advertisements are intentionally designed as brain worms which interact with deep parts of your brain and get you to instinctively associate them with something (ideally positive, but even general awareness is beneficial).

That's true, for me the main issue with any automation under capitalism is that it brings yet more power to the corpos and the billionaires and takes away power from the labor.

In this particular case it also sucks because the end product of genAI is soulless slop, and video genAI is quite a power hog. I agree that it's ok for assisting developers/writers/artists/video editors in boring repetitive tasks.