amio

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[–] amio@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago

That's fair: abstraction. The technical wrongness of "orbiting electrons" as in the whichever-model serves a purpose: the truth is hairy, and more importantly not practically relevant if you're calculating sliding boxes around planes and that sort of thing.

On the other hand, "10% of the brain" and similar nuggets of common "wisdom" are just flat-out wrong, often stupidly so. There's very little use in that.

[–] amio@kbin.run 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, and if that is a powerful feeling (not "I'm autistic and see things differently", but "normal reality does not apply to me" somehow) then it might be something to check out with a medical professional.

[–] amio@kbin.run 7 points 4 months ago

Yes, but then people can't have a nice whinge about it.

[–] amio@kbin.run 3 points 4 months ago

Close range.

[–] amio@kbin.run 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Implying Netflix can learn..

[–] amio@kbin.run 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand: HTTPS

[–] amio@kbin.run 14 points 4 months ago

Even for the internet, this place is truly extremely fond of doing that.

[–] amio@kbin.run 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Semmelweiss. His radical idea of "surgeons ought to wash their hands" saw him widely ridiculed and reduced to poverty, and he died in an institution.

[–] amio@kbin.run 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

New Vegas is notable for not being a Bethesda game per se. It uses something very close to the Fallout 3 engine, but the actual content has little to do with Bethesda. They did publish it, though.

[–] amio@kbin.run 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lmao. They are basically speedrunning enshittification% at this point.

[–] amio@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not natively, as it's an extremely niche concern. If you're on a normal browser, you can get uBlock origin and make a custom rule.

[–] amio@kbin.run 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

company that spouts "think different"

Spouted, to be fair. 20-odd years ago.

But still, it is a pretty damn funny bit of irony how it went from that to "everyone must have an iPhone, if you don't you're a loser".

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