See, I couldn’t bring myself to type that; I think I’d have to alias it to ‘bother’.

Likewise

Wow, I nearly ignored your link - glad I didn’t!

So what you’re saying is, maize domesticated us, but it’s also sociopathic and generally evil, and probably believes in eugenics with a side of racism.

Ah, but you forget, Maizen have a collective identity, so stalks think nothing of sacrificing their individual lives for the good of the whole.

I’m not your IT admin, so I’m sharing this only for informational purposes but you seem to have posted twice ;-)

Lord Wiggle recommends: 9pro with Hasselblad. Amazing photos, every time.

Definitely sounds like they pay you to make that up. ;-p

Depends how many suitcases you’re carrying

Super knowledgeable but with patchy knowledge, so they’ll confidently say something that practically everyone else in the company knows is flat out wrong.

This is hard to truly eli5, so I’ll have a go too, in case the others haven’t cleared it up for you.

The spot on the moon that moves isn’t a real thing, it’s the effect of photons hitting the left side, then other photons hitting the right side. The ‘reason’ or ‘cause’ for those photons comes from earth very much at light speed. But the left side of the moon can’t cause an effect in the right side, that fast. It just experiences a thing right before the right side experiences something similar.

Like if two cars drive from London to Manchester and Liverpool, arriving within seconds of each other. It doesn’t mean you can drive from Manchester to Liverpool in seconds.

There’s an SMBC I love on this: “The shadows of reality go as fast as they like.” https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/superluminal

Bonus: IIRC, any two events that are too close in time for light to travel from one to the other, can be viewed from a different “inertial reference frame” (someone else moving fast and analysing things with the same physics) as being the other way round. I.e. the right observer could see the right hand side of the moon get lit up before the left hand side. But the chap on earth wiggling the laser pointer is still wiggling it slower than the speed of light, so this observer would still see the laser pointer move from left to right. How does that work?

Gulf of Mexico, for the small price of moving to Mexico.

I love OSMAnd for openstreetmap. Great for offline maps, and able to download whole countries in advance. There’s lighter weight apps now, I think; OSMAnd has lots of features, many which I don’t need, but I still love it after picking it up when it was maybe the only one.

Doesn’t do traffic (I don’t think?) and it’s routing used to be lacklustre. Search function still seems rubbish to me, but maybe I’m using it wrong. (If I’m searching for a place rather than looking on the map I’ll often use Google maps to get a lat/lon or plus code, then put that into OSM!)

We tried it with war once, people liked it but the bosses cancelled it next time.

What if you’re a bicycle-loving vegan? Maybe an e-bike battery and a good herbal tea? I’d hope a kg of gold can get you at least two herbal teas

If you were already average, it could double your wealth - which could translate to something like a bigger house, investments, or a lump sum that’s huge compared to your normal available cash.

So I think it’d still be a pretty big deal unless you’re rich. But I agree, less than I might have expected.

Going by @tal@lemmy.today’s post, that’d put you a bit above the median American (or double you, if you’re already a median American), or about a hundred Africans.

I’ve not heard of Jeep culture, myself, so now I’m going to imagine a colony of asexually-reproducing microscopic Jeeps in a Petri dish.

Today, O Squid, you have broadened my imagination beyond yesterday.

I think now it’s Windows Cloud Commander 11000, soon to be re-integrated into your Office 366 account. Elevated privileges require a premium subscription.

Thanks for doing the research!

If I didn’t need the flexibility my Android (Lineage) gives me, the iPhone 13 mini is one phone that’s actually a nice size.

And my Samsung S10e - just it’s out of date for firmware updates.

Though I’d actually prefer something smaller and use my phone for less.