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Well, maybe it was normal ~10 years ago, when that comic was published, but is now getting rarer and rarer, as each new generation consolidates itself on a single platform.

When most of your social circle exists on one platform, you tend to use that platform less for its specific features, and more because of the fact that all your friends are there. I don't personally use Instagram, and this is anecdotal information, but I know a lot of people who only use Instagram to see what their friends and family are up to, and to watch the occasional reel.

But you're absolutely right about Instagram's evolution. It's crazy.

Network effects will keep a person on a platform until a critical mass of their social circle decide to leave all at once. I'm no expert, but I suspect that that critical mass is pretty high, maybe more than 50% of a person's circle. So it's not exactly vanilla free-market competition. Entrenched players have a pretty big advantage.

I specifically said "one of the largest", not just "the largest". The US is (was?) the second-largest investor in clean energy [0].

[0] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/annual-invest...

Am I the only one who saw the title and thought it was about physical clean-rooms?

I suppose that the specifics of what I said were mistaken, but the general sentiment remains the same. It doesn't seem like this conflict will last as long as the embargo, and when one of the largest investors into new technologies has firmly refused to acknowledge the necessities of renewables, progress and adoption will certainly slow down.

I don't think GP was forcing anyone to do anything.

A lot of the world tried to shift to renewables during the ~10-year-long 1970s embargo. They went straight back to sweet old oil afterwards. This isn't gonna last nearly as long. Don't get me wrong, I hope and pray that renewables get a boost out of this, but I don't think it's gonna happen.

The strait is considered closed when a country not afraid to use its military says ships can't cross.

"The greatest ideas are the simplest."

- William Golding

> Iwamoto and Scheschkewitz say pentasilacyclopentadienides could be ligands for catalysts and materials.

I'm guessing it's the latter, because you have to keep the mine-disabling mechanisms working and powered up through possible adverse weather and environmental conditions for long enough that the conflict has a fair chance of having ended.

> He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats

How does that work for a rat? Sounds interesting.

Another usage of the word "lost" is to indicate when the spacecraft has become dysfunctional. Although, that one is the verb form, not the adjective.

> Well managed people are much happier in my experienced

Emphasis on the well-managed. If the management actually helps the tram achieve their goals and doesn't stifle them, then great. Otherwise, you end up with bloat.

> Modularity would be great too.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't pad the car companies' margins. What's best for th consumer is generally worse for the company.

Me neither.

DuckDuckGo has a js-free version of their website at https://html.duckduckgo.com/

Both channels were started because of enjoyment and a sense of purpose, and in his latest video, Derek from Veritasium mentioned that he continued doing it, even after money began rolling in, because it was fun and it helped improve people.

People still do this here.

I live in India and what I've noticed is that the position of the "refuel your car" fuel pump icon shows where the inlet is.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2270/

> In December 2023, researchers identified four categories of teen who had not yet joined the site.

Does anybody know which study or paper this is referencing? Or is it an internal study by Instagram?

This link doesn't seem to work for me. I tried it with archive.ph and then it worked.

I did! It took me a few months though. You just have to work at it a lot and be very conscious of your speech.

Oops, I forgot to mention the cost. That is what I meant, I just didn't get it into the comment properly. :)

I feel like this advice could also somewhat apply to your manner of speaking. I'm a pretty fast speaker, and I've noticed that when I try my best to go slower, I understand what I'm trying to say better, I figure out gaps in logic and errors in the sentence while speaking, instead of after, and I get the message across better. And when I'm giving an impromptu speech of some sort, if I slow down and think about every sentence I say, the sentences stitch themselves together in a better-flowing way, and I enjoy speaking because it sounds better.

Would the retired reactors still be safe enough to use for power generation?

This is an amazing idea, with many potential use cases, but I feel like, for the layman, a major use case of cloud storage systems like Google Drive and iCloud is the ability to access the same files from multiple devices. This, while being a pretty cool system for backup and restore (and very economical!), is not really as much of a concern for the average user of Google Drive and iCloud, because based on what I've understood, it doesn't allow other devices to read data from the cloud for local viewing. Then again, I might be wrong, and it might be pretty useful for the average user.