I mean, as we're seeing with the metal-in-cheese recall, the same product on the same assembly line is being sold for dramatically different prices.

And the veggies in Whole Foods likely come from the same farms as the cheaper ones at Sprouts across the street...

I mean, as we're seeing with the metal-in-cheese recall, the same product on the same assembly line is being sold for dramatically different prices.

And the veggies in Whole Foods likely come from the same farms as the cheaper ones at Sprouts across the street...

As dumb as that is, I miss the days where the Next Big Thing actually did something as earth-shattering as "move a person around slightly faster than they could walk themselves."

Now it's "the NBT is an update to the predictive text your flip-phone used to have, only it's planet-killing."

100%. I use it as part of my identity separation, and for Meet, but now that I'm using another Chromium browser (Vivaldi) maybe I can start to drop that...

this doesn't mean we sit back and watch 'em spin; it means we have to be ever more mindful of anti-democracy efforts to silence and disenfranchise folks

... because we are in fact winning

the tl;dr is

anti-abortion and right-wing funders, including some of the richest mf's on earth, are absolutely burning cash in US elections right now because even with gaming the system, they can't get the results they want

I've seen a similar thing happen in my brain as I've gone from visualizing square dance choreography to being able to trust the symbols and know that it means that people are going to show up where the symbols say they will.

yeah, I remember a conversation with the amazing Tony DeRose, in which we both had to think about something, we both came back with the same answer, but it was clear that he'd gotten there via symbols and I'd visualized it. And sometimes it's nice to be able to trust the symbols.

... the process of calculation. It's like "we didn't have computers, so we made up all of this complexity" rather than just letting them be as conceptually clean as they are.

I think this is related to how poorly math is taught generally. Once I realized that matrices are just a way to project an x-dimensional point into an x-dimensional space along arbitrary vectors, so much was instantly intuitive to me, and I still wonder at all the jargon derived from from...

... the process of calculation. It's like "we didn't have computers, so we made up all of this complexity" rather than just letting them be as conceptually clean as they are.

I think this is related to how poorly math is taught generally. Once I realized that matrices are just a way to project an x-dimensional point into an x-dimensional space along arbitrary vectors, so much was instantly intuitive to me, and I still wonder at all the jargon derived from from...