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He declined the first one, because they wanted him to lie.

He accepted the other, because they were fine with just facts.

A VPN doesn't protect your privacy. It only helps on websites without working https, which is ridiculously rare these days. Yes, it also hides your IP address, but that is really really irrelevant. If you wanted to stay truly anonymous you'd not log in anywhere and use Tor. The only actual use case is circumventing geo blocking.

I have read a short story about a world with like 9 suns and 3 moons. It's day all the time, except once every 2000 years, when there is a total solar eclipse. So every 2000 years society falls into chaos, most of the population kills themselves and only rich people, who can afford enough candles/fire or people who are passed out drunk survive the eclipse. At the time the story takes place one astronomer/scientist notices the pattern in their history and like predicts it or something.

Sadly I do not know the link. If anyone recognizes the story I would love to read it again.

It's still just as expensive, you're just adding administrative overhead.

You'd also spread the cost to more people, true, but who would operate a server for free (based on donations, but if it's federated why should I pay for that one server?). Also, do you trust all those people to keep operating the storage for years to come? Or are you done with losing access to videos, because someone lost interest in running their instance?

Storage and bandwidth costs for video on demand are so incredibly high, I don't think we'll get a federated alternative to YouTube any time soon.

Most of what he does is talking, with a pinch of false advertisement and stock manipulation thrown in the mix.

But I'm happy about any actual developments! I'm super hyped for the next starship launch for example.

I think the main distinction is lactose. And/or the proteins that are present in milk.

While oat milk and consorts can be used in a lot of use cases it's not a one to one replacement and it's dishonest to claim it is.

I've watched an interview with someone who has multiple personality disorder and it was really fascinating. She didn't tell what happened, but she must have had a really fucked up childhood, her whole arms were covered in self harm cut marks.

My understanding is that as a defense mechanism the personality splits into two (or more) parts and one takes the suffering so the others can live an otherwise normal life. So anytime she was abused the same personality would be in charge, making sure that the other ones do not have to experience that trauma.

There is probably a lot of complicated science too.

I'm in favor of global UTC as well, so the same as your example date.

The point was more in comparison to the 31 character claim, which is not a fair comparison when you spell out the name of the month.

Chronobiologists. The people who actually study how time impacts our well being and health.

The American public. Permanent DST was tried once already and winter with DST is way worse than summer with standard time.

Everyone who hates how early they have to get up for work. Standard time lets you sleep longer. (It's hard to think about, but it's true!)

"They downvoted Kecessa, because he told them the truth"

(Seriously guys, there is actual science about when we should get up. And with our current socially accepted timings (when we have to show up to work, when school starts) standard time is just better for our bodies than shifted standard time. If you want to wake up early, just do some chores in the morning, but most people would prefer work to start later.)

I'm with you on most things.

Two counter points though

• a normal date is already 14 characters: 2023-10-25-2100

• while I dislike the religious connection of the year numbering, I actually don't care about it. And adding ten thousand to it doesn't change anything. It's like putting a spoiler on a slow car and then pretending it's better now. No it isn't you are just expressing your desire for something better in a shitty way that is actually worse. Seriously, adding a 1 to the year is a useless change.
  If you desperately want to change year zero, there apparently exists the Julian period and Julian day number:

The Julian day number (JDN) is the integer assigned to a whole solar day in the Julian day count starting from noon Universal Time, with Julian day number 0 assigned to the day starting at noon on Monday, January 1, 4713 BC, proleptic Julian calendar (November 24, 4714 BC, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar), a date at which three multi-year cycles started (which are: Indiction, Solar, and Lunar cycles) and which preceded any dates in recorded history. For example, the Julian day number for the day starting at 12:00 UT (noon) on January 1, 2000, was 2451545.

The Julian calendar is the one that has no special rule for leap years. It is currently October the 12th in the Julian calendar.

The calendar that is used all around the world is the Gregorian calendar.

What you mean is called the ordinal date (at least by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar, see the disambiguation note at the top)

This idea that copyright and IP shouldn’t exist at all is kinda absurd

I don't hold this opinion at all.

I'm just saying that there are uses for which you don't need a license. Say, visiting an art exhibition and then going home and trying to draw similar pictures. Wether AI training falls into this category or instead requires a license is currently unclear.

Btw, two spaces before the line break
Creates the spacing you want.