It’s true what you say about volatility. It’s not just the internet, it’s everything digital, even offline storage.
A few months ago I was about to sell/give away a bunch of old childrens books that I had, my reasoning being that I will never want to read them again, and even if did want to for whatever reason, I could always find ebook versions of them.
Ultimately I decided to keep the books – what if, sometime in the future, I wanted to share these books with my (potential) children? Would all of these books have been preserved in digital form? Would I rather be giving my children a physical copy that I owned and read personally, or emailing a PDF? Physical media holds real value.
I’ve seen some niche bands release (free) official torrents of their music on a certain piracy website. It’s kind of surreal. Just goes to show that piracy is and always has been about sharing culture
Transcript:
DANGER
DO NOT OPERATE
THIS EQUIPMENT, SWITCH, VALVE, MACHINERY,
REASON Fucked.
Open your eyes, have a think about it
look
SEE ALSO OTHER SIDE
It’s a shame that in the age of the internet, we still sometimes have to buy physical in order to actually own things. I like buying CD’s for music that I really really like, but most of the time I just get a digital copy from Bandcamp. It’s cheaper and doesn’t clutter up my house. It’s a shame that there’s nothing like bandcamp for movies (at least as far as I know).
An, that makes sense. Thanks!
There’s something so on-the-nose about having “with ads” as part of a subscription tier’s official name. For decades companies have been coming up with euphemisms for their low-cost services (e.g. “economy class” on airlines, “community edition” for freemium software). But now here we are with Disney pretty much saying “Go watch ads you poor bitch”. It’s the death of a euphemism. They’re selling a crappy service, and they aren’t afraid to say it.
The name of the subscription tier is “Disney+ Standard with Ads”. So what is says is “Subscribe and get 7 days of [subscription] on us”. “On us” in English slang means “we pay for it”. So what the sentence means is “You will get to use a service called ‘Disney+ Standard with Ads’ for free for 7 days”
But yeah this is total word salad. It’s like they’re deliberately trying to weed out people with common sense and critical thinking abilities.
I can’t tell which unit is more cursed: millihertz or meter hertz. Surely, anything that could be measured in millihertz is more natural to measure as a period, or as revolutions per minute or something, right?
EDIT: Also, TIL about dpt. Thanks!
A dioptre (British spelling) or diopter (American spelling), symbol dpt, is a unit of measurement with dimension of reciprocal length, equivalent to one reciprocal metre, 1 dpt = 1 m^−1.
I think if I was a woman and I saw that a potential mate’s recommended was full of *ndrew t*int videos or similar, I would take it exactly as that: a red flag. Not an immediate condemnation but a sign that something MIGHT be wrong. It could be that they’re watching the videos with a critical mindset, or the algorithm is just doing some wonky shit, but I would probe further just to make sure that they aren’t a raging misogynist
There are some pretty smart people in America tho
I’ve heard that kWh/1000h is used as a power rating for light bulbs, because if they just wrote it as watts, people might confuse it with a brightness rating (e.g. “this LED bulb produces as much light as a 100W incandescent bulb”)
I’d rather live in a world where corporations are financially incentivised to pay lip service to LGBT rights and issues than financially disincentivised.
Good point. Maybe it’s good to see advertising not as a force of its own, but as an indicator of a culture’s values? Companies have been co-opting culture for marketing purposes for a really long time, and the fact that now they’re doing it with LGBT+ culture just shows that it’s no longer as stigmatized as it used to be
I actually saw that video, but thanks for sharing anyway! It’s such a good video essay, perfect balance of information and humor
Yeah fair enough. Maybe I shouldn’t use his comics as a template next time
Hmmm I think I remember seeing something similar at an airport once. I think it’s a good example of a company using their platform to spread a positive message.
…and yet you’re the one publicizing the guy’s name? Who exactly is doing the “amplifying” here?
Yeah, normalizing pride is a good thing. It’s also pretty funny when chuds lose their shit over “companies going woke” and the like, so I guess it’s not all bad.
Yeah, I though so too. Like, the antiviruses use actively malicious marketing tactics to scare users into giving up their money, paypal is a piece of shit, and flash was a security nightmare. Jquery is allright. If a website uses it and nothing is actively broken, then there really isn’t a reason to replace it.
I actually do have glasses, I just never bothered learning about any of the technical details behind my lenses. Optometrist measured my eyes, I chose the cheapest frame the store offered, came back a week later to pick up the glasses and that’s about it.