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Cake day: August 20th, 2024

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  • People who don’t understand science don’t get this. When science changes it doesn’t mean the previous ideas were “wrong” - it usually just means that the framework and the data it is built around was incomplete or imprecise. That’s the entire premise of empiricism, and why there are differences between how theory, fact and axiom are handled.

    Far too many people believe that the history of overturned consensus suggests that modern consensus is also “wrong” when it was the empiricist framework which discovered both “truths” in the first place.







  • Smart watches are largely pointless though. In the modern world a watch is mostly a status symbol, and smart watches don’t do enough “smart” things to displace that, and they obviously aren’t status symbols.

    A real heads up smart device you can actually wear for hours would actually push the boundary on wearable tech imo. At least, I have zero interest in watches, but am looking forward to being able to interact with my phone without developing neck problems.