Don't give Apple any more ideas, people!
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I know the prices on AirBnB are a lie too, but they still make me unhappy.
I know the unlimited data plans are not unlimited, but I am no happier due to this knowledge when I see their ads.
I know if I buy a perpetual license for a service, it will probably stop functioning in less than 5 years, but I am not more content when it happens because of this knowledge.
People are complaining about the expected tip percentage rising well above 20%. But they feel unhappy about this, instead of mentally adding 30% to the list prices and counting that as the real price and imagining the tip is 0.
At this point, it should be fascinating if we find an instance where human emotions don't work like this, rather than if they do.
1) The base configuration comes with insufficient resources (low memory, low disk space, till surprisingly recent past slow HDD instead of SSD), and
2) The upgrades are way too expensive compared to any other hardware manufacturer, meaning that
3) The advertised price is a lie! Almost no one should buy the base configuration.
You see a device advertised as 1500$. You think "Sweet! That's the price I am willing to pay!". But then you go through the selection process and end up with a 2000$ minimum on the checkout page. Even though it's not the same, psychologically, it feels like when you try to get an AirBnB for 100$ a night for 3 night and end up seeing a price of 920$ in the checkout page instead of 300$.
Apple is pricing necessities (like 16 GB of RAM) as luxuries, and people don't like that.
For example, after losing a court battle against the College of Psychologists of Ontario, he talked about it as such: "Don't bloody well lecture me ... some dimwit judge with a liberal bias did ... lecturing me about taking responsibility for what I say." I highly recommend watching the video. The tone is also part of the message: https://youtu.be/M5PESEbY_H0?t=74
Or when in December 2021, the Prime Minister of Canada tweeted this to encourage people to get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (keeping in mind that there were at no point any mandates for boosters, this was purely an attempt at advertising the fact that booster doses were available and recommended by the healthcare professionals):
> Justin Trudeau: "If you’re taking care of some last-minute Christmas shopping this week, here’s something else you can add to your list: a booster. If you’re eligible for one but haven’t gotten it yet, please, do so now. And if you don’t have your first or second dose, now’s the time to get it."
NJP replied to the tweet as such:
> NJP: "Up yours @JustinTrudeau. Seriously. You'd have to kill me first."
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/14745955491774341...
I cannot imagine OJP saying any of these things with this tone and this level of imprudence. OJP was generally cerebral, intellectual, academic, deep, calm, polite. He was a well-respected academic through and through.
NJP, on the other hand, is irritable, imprudent, aggressive, abrasive, impulsive, rude. He is a sensationalist yelling pundit through and through.
> Pasteurella bacteria has previously been linked to the sudden death of about 200,000 saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan – an incident that researchers believe could shed light on what happened to the elephant herds. Scientists believe the Pasteurella bacteria generally lives harmlessly in the tonsils of some, if not all, of the antelopes. An unusual temperature increase to 37C, however, caused the bacteria to pass into the bloodstream, where it caused septicaemia.
I read it as the effect of body temperature, but the parent has interpreted it as air temperature. I am not sure which interpretation is correct.
Here is a page from the Arabic website for the Holy See (Vatican). Just go to this page and search for الله :
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/ar/encyclicals/docu...
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Education-Training-and-Library/Kinde...
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/middl...
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/high-...
They did use lard till mid 90s.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/02/getting-lard-out-ko...
Reddit uses the term 'permalink' which kinda does promise that.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-secretly-tested-car...
> I would sit across from them in the dining hall, plates full of chicken tenders and french fries, and explain that postgraduate education in the UK is largely a way of extracting money from foreign students. Professors over there are checked out, classes are bad, and the whole place is pervaded with this sense of isolation and alienation, like everyone is behind a plate of glass.
https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/en/food-and-content/oonskade...
How do you do this in Pydantic though?
> a. Someone calls technical support for a magical item.
> b. Someone calls technical support for a piece of advanced technology.
This one seems appealing. Are there any good books with this theme?