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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • When western governments don’t give a fuck about human rights anymore, they have no standing to criticize China over it.

    I would expand this idea further… since all governments occasionally violate human rights, they shouldn’t be very much in the business of calling out human rights violations by other governments. That should mainly be the role of citizens or private organizations, not governments.


  • The etymology is that a “datum” (the plural of which is data) is something that is “given”.

    So data is information that has been given.

    In computers, data (information) is stored in bits (zeroes and ones). Eight bits are a byte, a billion bytes are a gigabyte, so the plan you describe allows you to download (or transmit overall?) 2*8*1000000000 = 16000000000 ones or zeroes that are used to encode data for computers (which they will decode into text, images, videos, whatever).


  • It’s the same for me honestly. Reading fiction isn’t enjoyable for me most of the time, though reading nonfiction (ie learning about the world) absolutely is.

    I remember this being somewhat different in my childhood, and my hypothesis is that the fact we got somewhat uninteresting fiction reading assignments in school killed my interest in it.

    It’s not screens vs books because I have tried reading fiction on my phone or tablet too, no difference.