fun-ny…?

Woah a TMBG song that I’ve never heard of – thanks for this!

The battery has a driver, which is written in software that indicates level based on an underlying profile of how the battery drains.

Hence why Pixel4a users were suddenly shocked by an upgrade that halved their battery life because Google made a whoopsie on the battery profile.

woah, and they both use the same hand to grasp at straws, that’s insane!

A fellow historia civilis subscriber I see

There were really good times, there were really bad times. Most of the time it was alright. Some things could have been better, but some things could have been a lot worse. Hard to rate

A space ship descends and lands outside my door, and and a benevolent Alien pops out and hands me a 512 MB USB stick.

“I crafted this for your species, and made sure it’s compatible with your hardware standards. It contains the sum total knowledge of all life in the universe and can be used to accelerate your species to the next plane of existence.”

I thank him tearfully and he departs with a warm smile, ascending back up into the soon-to-be-knowable cosmos from when he came.

I plug the stick into my machine, and check out the directory. Inside are two files:

 105 MB   knowledge.tar.piidx
 328 KB   README.txt

I open up the readme file to learn more about the PIIDX file format so that I can uncompress the sum total knowledge of all existence. General gist:

• Uses a compression algorithm with an infinite dictionary based on prime numbers
• Uses a storage/retrieval algorithm based on the digits of Pi

Realise quickly that the file will never be opened in my lifetime

I feel like we are in agreement

Think about how much empathy your parents generation has for yours. They kind of sympathize, wish things were easier, but ultimately do not understand the wealth gap or your day-to-day.

Think about how much empathy you have for a 3rd world exploited labourer. You kind of sympathize, definitely wish things were easier, but ultimately do not understand on how they live on less than a dollar a day.

Billionaires aren’t just one or two levels removed from understanding your situation. They are whole planets apart. They cannot comprehend our daily struggles. They do not see it except through summarized news reports that pander and reframe it to their lifestyle.

Billionaires are the most removed species on this planet

curiosity

“Better to send a robot to Mars, than a cat” my papi used to say

seek medical aid

sheer

It’s a safety basement. We’re in it because of safety!

But… but… I’m a lobster and she’s a crayfish!

• blood is thicker than water - true
• blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb - also true

Overall blood is pretty gloopy and goes down pretty well on spaghetti

Extremely relevant:
Bo Burnham - 1985

looming threat of nuclear annihilation