Yep

💪 2 years here we go

Congrats!

On the one hand we seem to currently have some of the cheapest air tickets the world has ever seen. If you’re willing to travel like cattle.

On the other hand it feels like air travel is now like getting on the city bus and there’s some guy vomiting in front of you and a screaming kid pissing on the seat behind you, all the while you’re getting herded around like a cow, your stuff is at high risk of getting stolen with no recourse, and the airline is playing mind games about the best time to buy a ticket after sneaking in a bunch of clauses designed to get you to pay more later.

Drone wars: begun they have

Impressively, one can get the other

Guys let’s just get one thing on the table.

The people with the guns and the money aren’t going to give them up freely nor are they going to play by any rules or so-called moral values except for whichever facilitate obtaining more guns or money.

Always has been, always will be.

The only offsetting force is the power of the masses, which could come together and take it back at anytime.

I was in high school in the late 90s when I think this song was getting nonstop playtime.

High school is a weird but oftentimes memorable time period for so many, and this song takes me right back there.

It’s just a feelings graph. It doesn’t reflect actual quantifiable product quality, longevity, or value.

In the notes it just says consumers were surveyed.

In other words if you say your product is made in Germany there’s a better chance people will assume your product is better.

Couldn’t have a thought further from his mind

Do you mean Buying = believing Or Buying = buying

Because I think the real problem here is that people actually are buying=buying and that’s why they keep doing it.

Immich user. I do miss the memories thing from Google photos but I expect it’s coming eventually. All the data is there at the foundational level.

My only real immich complaints are

A. The android app gets chonky slow when you have a huge library.

B. S3-like storage isn’t a supported config, meaning you have to manage your storage size somehow. I want to point immich at a Hetzner object storage bucket, arrange mirroring that to another s3 like cloud service, and then forgetting about storage forever.

I was just talking to a Chinese friend who works for a company that sells various goods on amazon.

He told me they budget to buy between 50 and 100 fake reviews for every single product they launch.

He said that without the fake reviews, the products will never start to sell on their own.

Whether to blame Amazon or blame the sellers, I’m not sure. But Amazon writes the rules of the game.

Yeah it matters a lot how the conversation is set up.

Is it “you and I versus the facts”?

Or “you vs me”?

Competent people can disagree and also identify where the facts are missing and the assumptions begin that lead to this. It doesn’t have to be a fight if they look at the data as something to discover together.

A lot of girls say things like “you’re lucky I’m like this, most other girls wouldn’t ______ like me”

And I’m thinking to myself “uhhhh you’d be surprised”