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Cake day: February 19th, 2024

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  • As others have said, it comes down to people not enforced on/off switches. You can’t (well you can, but should you) stop people living their lives.

    I was out with 3 friends tonight (all middle aged), meeting first for coffee, moving elsewhere for dinner and drinks, and ending with tabletop games (the place we eat/drink is happy with it). One of our group couldn’t stop looking at his phone throughout the time we were together, and the rest of us didn’t pull our phones out of our pockets once. (None of us were on call, contacted by family, or anything like that).

    Just as some people have their phone ping them for every notification (often loudly, every few minutes), some feel they can’t live without the dopamine hit of a meaningless social media interaction from a stranger. 🤷‍♂️












  • I was dragged along to see it at the cinema in the (then) new 3D format (versus the old red/blue glasses).

    Took me 10 minutes to realise the story is Pocahontas, so I’ve always thought of it as Pocahontas Smurfs. And the 3D, while a cool novelty, gave me motion sickness something fierce.

    While clearly no money was spent on the script, it did move animation technology and adoption along quite a bit.

    Gobsmacked a sequel was made.







  • I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we’re seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

    So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star’s poles and the other around it’s equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

    Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.