Google also accidentally deleted a random amount of user’s timeline data if you didn’t immediately catch it and restore from back up last March before the affected backups were overwritten. If you didn’t keep a close enough watch on your timeline to know that that happened, everything before ~Feb 2025 is gone now.

Ask me how I know. Yes I kept up on permissions. Yes I had backups on. No I didn’t have a new device. I even have dozens of available gigabytes of paid storage on Google One.

I’m sure it will only get more stable due to maps and timeline being revenue generators that encourage investment.

In the GW range batteries aren’t a great storage solution. At that point you’re basically sitting on a bomb with that much chemical energy storage. Before you get into all the losses from having to temperature stabilize the system. The most efficient/preferred solution is an artificial reservoir. Pump water uphill when you have excess power, run the generator when you need power.

Dams also aren’t permanent structures. There’s been a growing concern for awhile now about dams being managed by financial entities. Because local governments couldn’t/wouldn’t run them after their expected lifespan ran out in the 80s/90s they were seen as a reliable investment. Especially if you cut costs. On a dam basically the only costs to cut are maintenance.

Dams being decommissioned instead of failing is a better strategy.

The treatment was surgery. Not even weeks/months of chemo.

His treatment of “eat exclusively one type of fruit a week” IIRC almost hospitalized Kushner when he replicated it while doing the biopic.

Agreed.

They’re also not materially different from Instagram or Youtube. Singling them out as “the problem” is short-sighted at best.

TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.

It is not unique about either of those.

Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was “we can’t tell you but there’s classified info that means we should ban it.” Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of ‘those dang kids’ being annoying.

Those Peak Design backpacks are pretty nice.

Leaning hard towards “been claiming elections have been rigged for 20 years”. He was asked how he got his numbers on reddit and said “yeah it doesn’t mean much without the actual counts” and handwaved the question away.

Really wish headlines would start being “One guy claims” instead of “Experts claim”. But that wouldn’t get as much engagement.

There will be a surge in “nobody wants to work anymore”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Mason

She cast a provisional ballot, a mechanism specifically designed to check and count a vote only if the voter is determined to be eligible, on the advice of a poll worker, and was sentenced for voter fraud.

As much as I love Tom Scott and it’s a fantastic visual/temporal representation, I doubt a lot of people have the patience.

I like “1 Million seconds is 11 days, 1 Billion seconds is 31 years” as a more succinct example.

One person earning $3600/hr, 24/7, without spending any of it, would take 31 years to become a billionaire.

Threes

Fun puzzle game that got ripped off by 2048 and it’s endless clones. They wrote a blog post on how shitty mobile game development can be.

He bought co-founder status at Paypal too IIRC. He was ousted in part because he wanted to rename it “x.com”. Weird that.

a nightmare of garish bullshit that makes the entire work look like utter dog shit

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It’s definitely exploded but content farms were a problem even before 2022. There’s a reason google results starting with “reddit” / “stack overflow” were trending so hard.

“I know I’ll be the one stuck with caring for it when the next interesting thing comes along.”

“We don’t have the budget right now.”

“I’ve buried dogs before and I don’t want to again.”

Oh hey a surprise puppy. Might as well make the best of it.

Are you sure?