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INeedMana

@ INeedMana @lemmy.world

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  • TikTok, the company that changed internet culture

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  • short-burst video format is engaging, but it allows no room for nuance, no room for fact checking or deeper breakdowns

    it simply is other format, for other means. Since yt started forcing creators to put at least 12min videos for max ads revenue, you can't cover a meaningful amount of topics in an hour. Unless you start speeding them up and constantly clicking to get to the meat of the video. And that's why the short format is gaining popularity. That it lacks depth? Of course, but if I'm interested in depth, I go search other formats. Most of the info I want to get is "more or less what is happening everywhere". I don't have to understand the nuances of political and societal situation in a country on the other side of the world, to want to know that there are riots there rn

    The fact that most of people use it for cats and drama? It's been there since IRC

  • What keeps me from closing up my Facebook account

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  • Only on desktop an in popular browsers, though. I tried the Greasemonkey version but it didn't seem to change much

  • What keeps me from closing up my Facebook account

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  • Hm. I'll have to take a look where to find it in SlimSocial. Thanks :)

  • What keeps me from closing up my Facebook account

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  • Ah, yeah. Messenger got so big that I've heard some users don't even know it's part of Facebook. They use it as separate app

  • What keeps me from closing up my Facebook account

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  • How are you (plural, I mean other posters too) managing to use Facebook to keep tabs on your friends? It's so full of "sponsored", "clips" and "ad" posts that it takes absurd amount of time to get to what people in your friends list posted. And it's like 1 post from someone I know, 10 irrelevant trash

    It does show the events (mainly concerts for me) other people are going to, so that's why I do open it once in a few months

  • The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

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  • I understand that it's a different model that will not work for everyone. But check out Bandcamp's payout model. Find new music via internet radio/MusicBrains (I don't remember RN the name of music exploration based on that)/yt and buy it via the model that is straightforward and at least seems to put the most money in artists' pockets

    Bandcamp also has a "discover" feature where you can set which genres you are interested in. I did find some interesting albums this way too

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  • The more I think about it, the less sense this graphic has

    1. If not per sq km, it should at least be per capitajust checking on wikipedia, divided by area GB should have bar around twice high as Germany. 209k m2 vs 357k m2
    2. and what does it mean 1 datacenter in the first place?big as a city sprawling datacenter complex and a bunch of racks in the cellar both count as 1?

  • The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship just made its first delivery across the Atlantic

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  • For some reason I also read "first" the first time I looked at the title

  • TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending time spacetime that makes other mass get closer

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  • This is where the name relativity comes in. You have to think in terms of relative speed. Your speed relative to earth will indeed advance closer and closer to c but never reach it. There’s a bunch of really wild and crazy implications behind this.

    ah, right. In a ship travelling with c, for someone outside the ship, I turn on the lights and observe the light to travel with c. For that external observer the light from my lamp travels at the same speed as my ship

    My mind was already bent! ;)

  • TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending time spacetime that makes other mass get closer

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  • It’s popular to think of those things as like crazy high G turns but they’re not. You’re just flying in a straight line through space time.

    Soooo... Interstellar was wrong with all the shaking of the camera?

    Are you on earth or is the ship in space accelerating at a constant rate? Again, there’s no way to tell. They are, physically, the same.

    In case of accelerating ship, I wonder what would happen in local frame once you hit/get really close to c. You'd get decelerated out of nowhere? Just as if you hit something?

  • TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending time spacetime that makes other mass get closer

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  • True. But that correction still doesn't unbend my mind