I am not against the whole "buy me a cup of coffee" ask by content creators but I do think it is really sad.
We have we devalued ourselves for corporate profits so much that it is unreasonable to ask for anything in exchange for hours of virtually unpaid labor other than a cup of coffee to drink while we do hours of virtually unpaid labor.
Like can we normalize "if you like my stuff, help me pay a little bit of my rent!" or "if you like my channel buy me some damn food so I can eat".
Good to know I have been consistently going against recommendations for mask wear at work. Frequently doff and don the mask during the day to drink water, have a snack. Never wash my hands after taking the mask off. Super-fail.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/mask-up-how-to-choose-and-maintain-the-best-masks-for-use-against-covid-19/
This is a long shot, but I want to put the power of social media and federation to the test.
My son wants to become a commercial airline pilot when he’s grown up. It would be awesome if we could find a commercial pilot in the fediverse that we can follow and ask questions of.
If everyone who reads this could boost it, it would be much appreciated and it would mean the world to my son if he could get in touch with a real-life commercial pilot! ✈️
Talk from The Long Now foundation about the possibility of telepathy in our lifetimes
https://longnow.org/seminars/02018/oct/29/toward-practical-telepathy/
Monday October 29, 02018
#telepathy #brainimaging #optics #lecture #longnow
its just an exceedingly goofy game but imagine if something was built like this with 100% intent from the ground up and everything was like this. and was required to beat the game too
#TIL Internet Archive's new service: Internet Archive Scholar. Search 25 million research articles preserved in the Internet Archive. https://scholar.archive.org/
Reminder that you can still see images from a planet millions of miles away being posted from the #Perseverance #Mars rover over here: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/#
The #reviewmeta guy is looking to step down and pass on the site. I really hope he's able to find a good site admin. The problem of fake reviews still exists, and it has gotten even trickier, especially when you take into account paid reviewers. Although, allegedly, such reviewers are disclosing that they receive the products for free, aggregate data like star ratings can obscure the influence of paid reviews.
Playing around with Wolfram Alpha has taught me that there are some really nice alternative interpretations of units.
The temperature outside is 2.647×10-5 kiloelectronvolts per Boltzmann constant.
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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