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I’ve also thought about that a bit. The way I see it, transgender people definitely are following local cultural terms. Not the ones that they are expected to follow, but still.

What’s considered masculine or feminine isn’t standard across different cultural contexts either. For example, wearing skirts or pink aren’t exclusively feminine. In a western context they currently are, so that’s why western MTFs are currently inclined to wear those.

However, that wasn’t always the case. If the same person had been born a few centuries ago, pink would not have meant the same thing, and they they would have probably felt differently about that color. Also, what westerners would consider a skirt these days, can be a masculine or gender neutral piece of clothing in other cultures. Even today, there are place where mean wear something that westerners would call a skirt.

And then there’s also the extra friction. You would need to transfer the video files to the computer before you can even start. If you edit on the phone, all the files are already there, which is nice.

You could wait a few hours for the cloud to finally sync, or you could just go through all the USB-C cables that don’t support reasonable data transfer rates… either way, there are some serious bottlenecks in the process. Once you get past those, it gets better, but I guess all of that is enough to deter many people from trying.

What about kids who edit videos on a phone. Laptops exist too you know, and the editing process would be a lot more enjoyable.

When you see an opportunity, go for it.

LOL. What a classic!

😄 Such a familiar feeling, especially when it comes to software. You go to the official site and read until you fall asleep. Usually, I’ll just skip that and go straight to the relevant Wikipedia site, read the first three lines, and get the general idea of what that thing is all about. Works well with established technologies I haven’t heard of before. Doesn’t work with things that were invented two months ago.

Travel has many facets, and growing, learning, and broadening your horizons are certainly part of it. Those reasons aren’t fake, but I’d argue none of them are the core reason why people think so highly of travel. Naturally, travel often involves conspicuous consumption, spending lots of money, polluting the environment, and general decadence. That’s why people feel the need to justify it—that’s why you hear so much about the secondary reasons.

The advertisement-based business model has turned out to be highly successful, just like the newspapers have proven. However, magazines were a hybrid solution. You would pay for the magazine, but there would still be a few ads. Reminds me of modern Netflix actually.

Likewise, riding a unicorn is completely safe.
How many horse related accidents have you heard of? Many. How about unicorns then? Zero.

By providing solutions in an ever-changing dynamic landscape… by utilising cutting edge machine learning… bla bla blockchain… with cloud computing… and high definition whatever… something something profit margins…

That’s an interesting thought, and I would like to add a few things to it.

The whole idea of having ad funded things is fundamentally flawed. It has also become too dominant, and difficult to compete with. Ads are the tool used in this business model, but are they really the root cause of the problems you mentioned? I would say no.

Theoretically, you could still have ads without ruining everything. When other business models aren’t competitive enough, the whole system naturally gravitates to the mess we’re currently in.

I think cheap mobile games have showed that you can charge a small amount of money, and people will be willing to pay up. That way, everything doesn’t have to be ad funded. It’s just that this business model doesn’t appear to be appealing enough in other arenas, and that’s a real problem.

Attitudes have changed a bit since short distance flights aren’t prohibitively expensive any more. However, that’s still a bit of an exception. To many “air travel” refers to flying to a tourist destination once a year instead of attending a quarterly business meeting.

When air travel became available, it was super expensive, which meant that only rich people could do it. Several decades later, it became cheap enough that middle-class people could travel occasionally. Because of that history, travelling got a shimmering magic aura in our minds.

It’s what rich people do, and most people want to be like them in one way or another.

If it’s a generic action movie, millions worth of material damage too. Broken cars, exploded buildings etc.

If it’s a Marvel movie, half the city is usually levelled by the time we’re done with the plot. Who knows how many people die every time the protagonist goes shopping.

The protagonist also gets constantly hunted by all sorts of bad guys, terrorists, global conspiracy organizations, intergalactic demons etc. No thanks!

Thanks!

Based on the phase interaction part of the article, there’s constructive and reconstructive phase interaction going on. That chapter has some nice diagrams about it.

That’s what produces the different colors. The thickness of the layer determines which wavelengths are lucky enough to reflect this way.

Also, here’s what happens with iron oxide.

I recall reading something about titanium and its color. The thickness of the surface layer determines the color. It’s just nanometers thick, but that means light begins to do weird stuff at that scale. I suspect the same applies to the silver oxide/sulfide/whatever layer on the spoon. If that’s the case, you’re not actually seeing the color of the surface layer. The layer is exactly the right thickness that specific wavelengths of light get reflected back while others don’t.

Proper physicists can add more details.

You can try to help your friends who have mental issues, but it comes with risks.You should know when to stop. I’m not telling you to abandon your friends who need help. Try to support them, but only within your limits.

You’re (probably) not a professional therapist, so you don’t really have the means to make the kind of impact you’re hoping to make. Try to pay attention to the signs when the relationship is beginning to harm your well being. When you notice that, it’s time to step back.

If you know someone who clearly needs help but refuses to seek it, you’re in a tough spot. Realistically, there might not be much you can do to help. Coming to terms with that that is painful, but watching someone collapse and implode is even more agonizing.

Positive side: You’ve done what you can, but sometimes that just isn’t enough. It’s not your fault if someone gravitates towards an otherwise avoidable disaster, so don’t blame yourself.

I Just put a question mark at the end of this sentence, so therefore it’s a question now?

What about the idea of burning oil products in general? Sure, that made powerful and light engines possible, and they have transformed economies, logistics, trade, and entire countries. However, if we hadn’t invented that, progress would have been a lot slower.

Nevertheless, I would argue that the past 200 years of industrial progress weren’t worth the climate crisis.