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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • As a Czech, you already know that but the brief democratic Czecho—Slovak Federation (1989-1992) also had a “Hyphen war” (actually just an argument) where Slovakia was not content with the longest hyphen available and wanted an “and” in the middle, breaking grammatical rules. Greater disagreements later resulted in the countries’ peaceful dissolution on New Year’s Eve 1992.










  • No, I just observe enshittification. The real art is to legally (or legally enough) collect the required data, process them automatically to calculate each customer’s tolerance, and maximize profit (through dynamic pricing, incentives and targeted ads) while internalizing the risk of backlash against these unethical practices if they’re too obvious. I know the steps and so does OP, but that doesn’t mean I/them could or would do any of them.




  • Yes but by reflecting >95% of the light, it does not get nearly as warm as what the light would otherwise shine on (typically gets dispersed all over the room, very little gets back out the window). Also, if placed outside a multi-layer window (which you should or the window may overheat and crack), the heat exchange to the inside via convection/conduction is stopped, only radiation remains, and the 80°C foil radiates way less than the 6000°C sun (also, shiny things are bad at receiving and transmitting black body radiation).








  • Don’t forget how this cartoon originated:

    • 2021-01-06: Failed coup by pro-Trump degenerates storming the Capitol (Trump denies involvement but his tweets from the day definitely played a role, as decided during the impeachment proceedings in the following week).
    • 2021-01-08 Trump is banned from Twitter in wake of the scandal.
    • 2021-01-08 Donald Trump Jr. tweets: “We are living Orwell’s 1984. […]” (Yes, shown as Jan 9 shortly after midnight but that’s in UTC)
    • 2021-01-09 Conservative artist Gary Varvel publishes this cartoon.