Are you sure it’s not getting better? This morning, my Pixel updated to take away all my corners again. It’s been what, 4 years since they last made everything rounded and bubbly? My wifi bar and cellular bar are now different stacks of noodles. Improvements nobody knew they needed.

Rollover: Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always ‘repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs’.

I’d say just as you can run your own server cooler (turn it off when not needed), Netflix servers are going to wind down during low demand and run lower power. But while you’re picturing you last laptop as a server vs a data center, try to picture every household out there running their own “server” the same way. Some are watching, some aren’t. I think OP’s question is more appropriate, comparing streaming to broadcast rather than streaming vs local storage. Besides, how’d you get that data? You transported physical media or downloaded it from a server.

A tumblr comment may be the source. I don’t see it anywhere else. So allow me to add a quote from 29-days-of-fog that summed up why I lay down and look up for a couple hours on dark trips, why I look up when I walk outside at night

you’ve heard of existential dread and existential horror, now get ready for existential peace, which is that feeling when you stare up at the nightsky and think, “huh. i exist. that’s pretty neat.”

Every one of those stars is another, massive sun with the power to roast any ball of rock orbiting too close. Every single surat out there is a genuine point source of light (no discernible shape) with use of nearly any device available. By naked eye, five of them can be planets - other huge, spinning balls of material that we’ve probed and viewed, and yet, they are so incredibly distant that they’re indistinguishable from stars unless you have s few extra pieces of knowledge. There’s only two bodies we can see by eye that have any shape, being the sun (very huge) and moon (very close). That’s insane. The distances are unfathomable by the human mind. We are not space faring creatures. Other planets are not escapes. This is where we live. This is our planet. It’s the only one we have. And we’re arguing about it being to expensive to help the needy.

Dine-in is self serve at a fast food restaraunt here in the US. Drive through/app order is filled on a fountain with an auto-stop. The labor time is the same as grabbing a juice box. You know what’s manufactured at brain-numbing scale? 2-gallon bags of black corn syrup to make 800 cups of soda. In no way will the shipping cost of 800 juice boxes be cheaper than the bag of syrup to use municipal tap water. And no, milk/juice is not produced at near-zero profit. That doesn’t make sense as a business model. Economies of scale does not mean profit goes down, it means the cost of production goes down and sale price can go down proportionally.

I disagree that it’s a price difference, especially since it wouldn’t be such a flat difference across options. Paying to ship water (as in, a complete drink) is generally never going to be cheaper than mixing flavoring into tap water on-site in a developed area. Even drinks at the bulk store is more expensive for me than using tap water at home (Mio, Gatorade, coffee, sodastream). Fountain machines are notoriously profitable, still less than 0.25USD per cup in syrup and materials.

I haven’t found the symbols to be an issue, but the majority of my waste with a recycling triangle are “trash” numbers (6/7, then 4/5, now even 3s are excluded here) or borderline lying (numberless plastic bags making it seem like they can go in with my bottles, or making it seem like it’s my fault I haven’t sought out a bag collection station). It should be fine to have the numbers marked clearly but the acceptability is neither clear nor standardized.

Special shout out to food containers predominantly being 5s and the adorable recycling triangle on greasy pizza boxes.

Well, I can take some guesses. Do you mean US residents of Indian nationality? I know this will sound racist and I don’t know if I can articulate that that’s not my intent, that I’m talking about a national/regional culture, and that none of this is inherent to any individual. Even still, I’m aware I’m an outsider and I only have a small sample of their lives. It’s based on being near a large immigrant community, talking to immigrant adults, befriending many US-born/young-when-immigrated people, and briefly traveling through India. I’m sure many aspects are derived from both pro- and anti-British movements over the centuries so its not like it’s all self-fueled. And if anyone has differening opinions based on anything tangible, I’m all ears.

If you come from a country with more prevalent misogyny and visible corruption and were in the top 20% of wealth there, it’ll skew your impression of the effects of what half the US population is considering a humanitarian crisis. The vast majority of Indians in the US come from 2, maybe 3 states (Gujarat, Punjab, and I forget the 3rd). They’re much wealthier than the other states, hence the ability to afford a $1,000+ flight (think about how 1k is a lot for us, now think of how the average Indian wage is 4kUSD/year). The absolute most common theme I’ve heard from the adult-immigrated that are outspoken politically/economically/socially is it doesn’t matter who the president/majority party is as far as social progress goes (tons of apathy) but stocks need to go up (personal gain is the primary concern). They buy into the idea Republicans boost the economy and lower taxes. Many of the matured-in-India immigrants [say they] have no qualms with going back to India if the economy tanks in the US. They’ve profited in the US and have access to the higher levels of living there. I lived like a king in a marbled hotel that cost less than my mortgage. The political apathy extends into the quasi-political/social realm as well, with Musk causing zero hesitation in them for buying the new-Gen Tesla (they’re visually distinct ~2023+). There’s also blatant racism with them against southern Indians and black people, so it’s not like the racist ideology of Republicans upsets them.

This is far from the impression I’ve gotten from the majority of US-born/immigrated-young Indians I’ve met. My circle probably has bias about their social leanings since it’s probably a moderately successful, reasonably diverse circle. I’ve met several that lean to the right, but that’s just as common for any milktoast white guy when they feel the social welfare system is robbing them of individual success. That’s the whole platform, isn’t it? They’re being robbed? Regardless, I’m proud of being part of a very diverse area because it shows that origin culture is the most defining part of a person’s personality. Race has overlap, but it’s not a defining feature. Not at all. No wonder cities go left. Throw a mix of people in tight quarters and you realize we’re all getting fucked and your ancestry doesn’t mean shit.

Tangent: The prevalent origin-states of Indian immigrants makes me think about how skewed the world must be about Americans. I understand the US likely is more global presence in the news/social platforms to spread our interior culture, but I wonder how New Yorkers and Californians skew the world’s impression of the average American in other cities.

They didn’t specify the status of the napalm in the movie quote. Could’ve been raw. Could’ve been provided by the other side. It’s the visual cue sin the scene that tell the status. No difference here.

Multiple businesses around me have gone fully single stream, garbage included. People keep messing up the sorting so bad that the trash companies were paying people to sort at the dump. So they figured they’d stop sending 2 trucks

Blow horn please stop ok Awaz kado / awazdo

I take it you’re also reading the back of the trucks, too. My experience is West Bengali. Honk to tell car you’re approaching. Honk to tell car you’re next to them. Honk to tell them you’ve passed. Honk at scooter. Honk at crosswalk. Honk at turn. Honk at red light. Honk at green light. Honk at any car in front of you. Drive on shoulder. Drive on walking path. Honk at pedestrians. Honk at train. Honk at bus.

Oh no

The buses

Fuck

deDeDEDede deDeDEDede deDeDEDede alllll fucking night. Sequential 3-tone horns in any sequence.

You said exactly what the parent comment said and ignored the secondary part of OP’s intent. But thanks?

The question isn’t just about upstarts, it’s asking how we got here. We can’t start Ovidia in a garage, but Nvidia did at one point. So where’d everyone else go? What partnerships and preferences put Nvidia on top?

Asking questions is great. Testing ideas is fantastic. Discussion is healthy. Getting so combative and argumentative with repaonses to ideas you’re posing as the obvious solution that 8 billion people wandering the Earth now have missed? That’s nowhere near as constructive for the world is it will be for you, in an inverse manner, in a few years.

Micro was weak and largely people’s first experience with frequent-use plugging. Cheap cables don’t last long. Car use is abusive, even using the phone while charging is harsh. Moving the phone by the wire. Hard cable angles to keep the phone upright in stands, cup holders, cups, whatever. Rolling the cable tight for storage or travel. Pulling by the cable to unplug instead of by the head. Accidentally tripping on cables or otherwise yanking them. It’s death by 1,000 papercuts for the cable. Shit happens.

I can tell you that doctors will not trust the claims of anyone slurring their words. If they can’t identify the person and pull up their records, they’ll do their own diagnostics.

What problem are you trying to solve? In what instance have you experienced an actual doctor say they wish there was an acronym for everything? Frontotemporal dementia is 3 precise bits of data. Two bits tell you what type of dementia, one bit to tell the majority of doctors this isn’t their specialty and just “dementia” is sufficient. And, more importantly, is rooted in Latin - the common root of medical terminology. It’s pronunciation carries further across the world than writing.

I’ve had many micro cables get broken, requiring the perfect angle, but never the ports themselves as far as I could tell. I’ve never had a C port fail either and rarely have cable issues. However, any time the C ports require a specific angle to work, I have found they’re packed with lint. It goes with the “click” getting weak as well. Paperclip, Sim card pick, compressed air, a good cheek puff, usually all good after.

Sure, because what we need in medicine is more acronyms to occlude meaning.

I guess we couldn’t have a female president because we’d have war only every 28 days