obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish
Before I read this article, I also thought it would be a great idea to get rid of timezones entirely and just use UTC for everything. To quote from the link, (please forgive me for being lazy and not formatting it correctly)
Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:
- causes the question "What time is it there?" to be useless/unanswerable
- necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time
- convolutes timetables, where present
- means "days" (of the week) are no longer the same as "days"
- complicates both secular and religious law
- is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people
- makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world
- does not mean everybody gets up at the same time, goes to work at the same time, or goes to bed at the same time
- is not simpler.
As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.
thanks, I see now. really well made response video.
A very basic phone plan from one of the top three ISPs where I live (Taiwan). Comes with 3 GB of data a month. (I'm on Wi-Fi most of the time.) Costs ~$6.1 a month. No 5G connection, only 4G. ~22 cents per minute of calltime.
Sabine Hossenfelder - they have positions that cause hurt to people
Can you elaborate on this? I haven't really watched much of her content, so I am not quite sure how she's causing hurt.
My bill was $38 last month.
Did you mean that this was a lot or dirt cheap? Sounds quite expensive to me.
It's mildly amusing how this post has 84 upvotes, but the feature request itself only has 34 votes
No kidding. However I did sort of forget what the conversation was about.
- large
- tap water can be dirty
- great curry
- massive population
- caste system
- makes many YouTube tutorials
- has some beef with Pakistan
- likes to bob their heads
- arranged marriages
- spices
- really hot and humid
- as other people have mentioned, can be a bit unruly at times
Awesome writing. I don't think I will ever be able to compose texts with such eloquence. Neither in my native language nor English.
I followed most of your guide, and my phone battery is lasting me upwards of 5 hours of screen on time since I applied your secret sauce. Never mind the ridiculously low data usage.
Can you please give a link to this guide? Thanks.
On top of it, they have lied about testing. https://i.imgur.com/woNxPhx.jpg
Yeah, no. Pretty sure that's just a rando with GrapheneOS logo as their avatar. The way they talk doesn't sound like the dev to me, and I also don't think the dev would ever misspell a word like "cellular" as "cullar".
Hi. When I got a new phone a couple weeks ago, it came with this really nice, name-brand (not giving names here) phone case. It's really rugged and feels great on the hands. It's also one of the most premium phone-case options out there.
Unfortunately, the case is plastered with the text: Pixel. The only phone engineered by Google. I really don't enjoy being a walking advertisement for Google, but leaving such a great case lying around is quite a pity.
So I wanted to ask if there's a way to remove the text that would not damage the case itself?
The case is made of TPE plastic according to its packaging. I thought about just scratching it off cause it does seem to be some kind of layer on top of the case, but I'm worried it won't be removed cleanly and might even leave behind scratches.
Is there another way? Is there some kind of solvent able to do this job?
Here's a closeup if that helps.
Thanks!
Edit: I have decided to uncensor the words.
Image description: A picture of a bald man in his 40s. The man is hugging a pan tightly and affectionately and smiling as if having this pan were all he could ever ask for. The pan is a grill pan, which is square in shape and has ridges on its bottom. This picture is printed on a door in a mall.
