"Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth."
Had a white van with huge antennas parked out front for a few days when they were refusing to believe that a large share house of young people didn't watch TV. This was in 2015. We didn't own a TV nor watch.
The van soon left after a few days but left a full bottle of yellow liquid. Makes a fun story, but yeah they threaten you a bunch and it's quite sad.
I lived on the Isle of Man for a few years back in the 90's. The white van would be spotted on the ferry coming over and a small notice in the paper would appear. Everyone hid their TVs for a couple of weeks, until the paper said the van was back on the ferry.
It sounds so farcical now, in our age of ubiquitous surveillance capitalism.
My guess is they are steering the radar beam from something hovering overhead.
The video links to a paper [1] titled "Airborne Circular W-Band SAR for Multiple Aspect Urban Site Monitoring" which mentions beam steering in the abstract.
This isn't about singing. This is about foreigners talking on the phone while driving. It's uncanny but nearly every foreigner I've seen doing gig work has their phone to their ear talking in their home tongue.
Nothing wrong with that unless they're driving.
1. It's distracting, truly distracting.
2. It's a possible means of working while at work.
It's actually good that Amazon didn't just record the convos and reprimand people based on an AI oversight of whether it breaks the above rules.
Yeah it's gone under the radar pretty much, but going from an early 80s car in the 2010s to a new car, it was like I was driving blind for half the time but reversing cameras are great (too bad they also cause problems where we can't really see everything).
Driving in older cars is way easier apart from power steering. The rest are luxuries like air con, entertainment. Even cabin space in older cars was vastly larger than new cars and the exteriors of new cars are vastly larger now than before.. thanks (but no thanks) to safety measures.
Measure is not being used as a literal verb. It's being used as an approximate measure. The same way we measure how much time we spend doing a task without a clock.
Yes, it is. They are measuring the milk in isolation, which in this instance means to pour (and measure with your eyes) as it fills the empty container before the tea. Whereas you can't really measure how much the volume is changing (eyeballing) in isolation.
Think of it as the difference between measuring a liquid in a container and eyeballing a liquid in another liquid.
Locale-based subreddits are some of the worst sub-reddits available.
You mean places like /r/korea, /r/australia, /r/melbourne etc. right?
They are the bottom of the barrel and the biggest wasted spaces due to moderator power trips and propaganda. Seriously, the moderators at these places are absolute shut-ins that subscribe to very extreme ideas and ban anything slightly away from what they believe in.
For example, Australia day is a day that celebrates Australia the country. You can be banned on Australian sub-reddits for saying "Happy Australia day" (something most Australians do). This is due to some insane, extremist ideas about Australia day.
Another example, /r/korea will silence anyone who does not agree with the US constant overwriting of Korean culture and Korean social mores. To speak on topics such as whether Korea should legalise drugs (it would be a disaster to do so, but Americans going to America) is a bannable offence.
Love how he used locale based smaller subreddits as some gotcha when those are some of the most heavily propagandized and censored subreddits. He comes off as one of those "I'm too smart to be propagandized" types, won't believe the narrative has been shaped in his small subreddits even when proof is staring at him right in his face.
I don't know what you read, but it wasn't anything that I wrote.
I've written only about my specific experience. I am not too smart to be propagandized.
Big subreddits clearly have major issues, and I acknowledged that. Presumably some small ones too. The ones I tend to hang out in ... I don't see any of the issues discussed here. There are no overarching mods, there is no groupspeak (to speak of), there is little to no banning/blocking.
So sure, maybe you have experience of smaller locale based subreddit that does. That's fine, no argument from me.
It seems that a common thread is that Reddit (and Redditlikes) fail when the topic is too big.
I generally use Reddit for small topics. My home town is 80,000 people embedded in a county with a total of 150,000. Our locale-based subreddit works fine (admittedly with a lot of predictable and repeated whining from certain demographics). Our moderators are rarely in sight or even detectable.
We only know what we think we know. We could just be grains of sand in someone else's world for all we know.