By my rough estimate, this year, I spent more than twice as much on my garden than the food was actually worth in dollars. But it is worth it to get better tomatoes and fresh okra that is not overly mature or bruised.
I used to think this way, then I realized physical property is not real either. Both are defined by the state, recorded on paper somewhere, and protected by force.
Just because you can actually physically go to my property does not change the fact that it is only my property because I have a deed.
I'm still not sure how to feel about IP but I'm less dismissive of it for now.
I think you may be on to something. I keep hearing podcast ads for a t-mobile phone upgrade service that brags about offering 2 year upgrades, which sounds bizarre to me because I want my phones to last at least 3 years.
Phone calls are rude. They demand your immediate attention with a loud alarm and no regard for where you might be or what you are doing. Texts/email are respectful. They make a small chime just to let you know they are around, then wait patiently for you to read and respond.
Already happened decades ago. Much of the world is controlled by an algorithmic feedback loop that has subverted powerful countries economies and continues to gain strength and influence. It just did not start as code on silicon.
Weird to see two long east to west districts when the state really does not have good roads running that direction and the two sides tend to be isolated from each other.
As I see it, the problem is that for the vast majority of people in the U.S. there is no compelling reason to change. People rarely need to convert units and rarely (but more often thanks to social media) need to talk to anyone who uses metric. I see it as a cultural quirk not unlike a dialect.
Of course for science, industry, and other situations where conversion, accuracy, and international communication are involved it very much matters and U.S. needs to use metric as much as possible.
Sync. I moved to kbin from reddit, but missed having a convenient app and was a longtime reddit sync user, so once the app released for lemmy I moved again.
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I have this experience with most paper towel dispensers when I follow the directions. Oddly... just grabbing the middle (where there are no vertical edges and less opportunities to rip) works everytime.
This was just OK. The underlying story and world is good enough to carry the adaption, but the pacing was awful. Crawling at times, literally fading to black to skip foward at others. Moments that seemed pivotal and important were all but skipped though (the whole dragon bit which sets up the plot for the rest of the story...)
Psych