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
@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 fucking medieval