That’s kind of a mess even now, lots of logistical concerns, but with all the technological infrastructure we have, we could kind of do the opposite… Have watches and clocks that are always synced exactly with the day/night cycle no matter where you are. It changes a tremendous amount about how we do so many things, but it’s an interesting idea.
I kinda think it might make sense to normalize using both, but at that point it feels like we may be making things worse.
Envy is an interesting one, I think this is usually based primarily on the ‘Golden Calf’ story.
There’s a bit of context that makes that story much more interesting. The stories that eventually led to what we think of as the christian god depict god as a bull. It brings up the possibility that the story wasn’t calling out against worshipping other gods but instead a warning against reverting back to old ways, changes how you approach the story.
Historical evidence there is really all over the place though, there’s a LOT of other interpretations and possibilities.
There’s readable comments scattered throughout, but it was mostly word salad that seems to have a penchant for mentioning birds of specific colors.
That looks like damage to the plastic coating, blast from the past, but you could just throw them in a resurfacer if you can find one, every resurface will be less reliable than the one before it though.
May not be worth it, how old are these? My knowledge is maybe out of date, but if it’s a dvd-rw opposed to a generic dvd-r, the usable lifespan used to be pretty limited. In theory, manufacturers claim 10-25 years based on their accelerated testing methods, but in actual lifespan, some data hoarders were seeing numbers average as low as 2 years for large collections. No good studies out there I’m aware of though. I used to have all of my media on dvd-rs and almost all of mine were showing read errors after 5 years, even the ones from the good manufacturer, this was back in… 2010ish.
This is one of those things that is probably always going to be anecdotal. Some people will definitely know people who have done the harvesting themselves, and because of the fact that the alternative is illegal, we’ll likely never be able to get accurate data on the prevalence of illegal immigrants doing the harvesting.
Like a lot of the problems from the past, you basically figured it out yourself or just went off to die in a corner alone and didn’t talk about it.
There’s a lot of books out there that I think are famous because they’re exceptionally shitty just in a different way than is typical. Same way I personally feel about Ulysses, It’s not a literary puzzle, it’s just a shitty book where the author tried something stupid and then just kinda kept going. I think Nabokov is a bit more effective, but it’s along the same vein.
If your net worth is negative, in 9 years it’s only half as negative.
Anything reaching those kind of numbers is probably a music video or some sort of nursery rhyme set to music. Youtube is mostly a music service.
Beyond that, there’s a grammarly ad that hit over 500 million views, wonder how much they spent on that and a lot of random memes. It’s real difficult to find the most viewed real non-music, non-kids, non-ad video. Probably still Charlie Bit my Finger (again). Except Mr Beast, not many others regularly topping 100M.
Here’s your source my friend. Sorry, original post only showed up on twitter:
Original Post: https://x.com/tehmondspartan/status/1787508561087693204
Does have a few other socials though:
“Women are my favorite Guy”
https://x.com/kylegordon101/status/1684963728427462656?mx=2
I am mystified as to what this says about me.