HOW YOUR TECH IS LYING TO YOU: the volume control is logarithmic so it feels perceptually linear
real weird way to start a video with this
i saw this thumbnail and i thought "bro is not gonna make a whole video essay about how logarithms exist right" but that's what he did (well, at least a minute of it. i am not watching the rest)
did the algorithm wake up today and decide that it was going to serve me its strongest potions
is this a threat
it's really funny that our work VPN alternates termination between the UK, Ireland, Romania and Kenya, which fucks the ad bidding algorithm up severely
not entirely sure why the ad algorithm is this convinced that I am in the UK and dying
oh no this is kind of actually a thing I would want to buy
what the Fuck are you trying to tell me, advertising algorithm
bit on the nose, isn't it
ONE job
a bit meta, innit
I suppose it is true that the target audience for people who might want to install an ad blocker is the people who are currently seeing ads
buy eggs on ebay
if you want to buy very large eggs, maybe you could try amazon instead
"micro-weddings"
buddy. bro. like. people of marriageable age just don't have money or if they have money, don't feel like they can spend large amounts of it rather than putting it aside to save for potential future catastrophes or old age
his hold up WHAT
hey kid, psst,
we're getting closer! but I care mostly about speech production!
amd...
it's pretty easy actually look for one of these
old: blockchain spam
bold: actual chain spam
shit! fuck! the ad algorithm has figured me out! fuck!
@halcy do you think he just like knocked up 100 people in like one summer and his kids are all the same age or do you think he spread them out over time

@aeva @halcy pronatalism

expect pretty much any tech billionaire to have been discussing similar theories and to, given any opportunity, have about this many kids,

@estelle @halcy ok but that doesn't answer my question

@aeva @halcy high likelihood whatever they internalized is still in techbro twitter somewhere

i roughly understand they have a suspicion of sperm donation services (they believe probably the operator will mess things up; this is not always a wrong assumption)

and there's the elon case where he just, accosts as many women as possible and also marries and divorces some

...and it's gross enough i really don't want the specifics of this one!

@aeva I figure that the practicalities of it demand that you'd spread it out, since you'd want like, 2 to 3 days pause for sperm count, and pregnancy is not guaranteed so you'd have to try more than 100 times to end up with 100 children total

but also I have decided that clicking the article to find out cannot possibly be worth it

@aeva I mean actually for all I know he adopted. but once again,
@halcy "micro-weddings" - or as we normal people call them - "weddings".
@halcy the rise of not being able to afford anything
@halcy pictured : a normal wedding
@halcy that's a Godox flash, a TT685 or very similar
@halcy gonna get micro-married on staycation
@mrsbeanbag aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@halcy i keep saying you definitely don't want an outcome where your wedding was the best day of your life.
@TinaStormcaller this could be me, if I was willing to spend uhhhhh 1000 england dollars plus shipping

@halcy

Imagine the algae you could grow in that.

@halcy maybe algo is trying to say you are senior and rich?
@halcy every sock can be self-heating for a while (a very short while for polyester socks)

@halcy you really do not need self-heating socks in -20 unless you plan to just stand in one spot or are wearing summer shoes

(you don't need them in -50 either, you just need appropriate socks and boots)

@halcy this is one i got just now
@colon_three @halcy i stopped reading google news because it is devolving exactly into this kind of race to the bottom. we don't get the best articles, we get the articles that most people click on. and people click on unsettling and ominous headlines. i'm feeling sorry for journalists who have real intent to inform but must debase themselves for the algorithm
@colon_three @halcy what the article doesn't tell you is that it's the spinach that makes the real difference
@halcy I’m sure next they’re gonna expose the terrible industry secret that screens are actually made from tiny pixels that merely create an illusion of an image
@halcy what if 3blue1brown decided to go full tabloid mode
@lritter "This theorem holds for 906150256 natural numbers - you won't believe what happens next!"