To get YouTube to work you need to curate your watch history. Any video you regret watching should be deleted from history so that it won’t be used for recommendations.

If your history is filled with these bad videos then you’re better off wiping your history entirely. Then start from scratch watching only videos that really interest you and your recommendations will all be based on those.

Like the internet itself, there is a TON of great content on YouTube. The trouble is finding it! For me, the internet has been gradually reverting to the situation I remember from the mid-90s (before Google existed). There were lots of search engines but they were pretty much all bad. I relied a lot on word of mouth (and site-to-site links) to find things.

You could say this about most standup comedians. The sober ones are the weird ones!

They’re not just random examples for some people though. For some indigenous peoples these items are a foundational part of their cultural practices.

They’re actually not hard to replace at all. Just look up “shower cartridge replacement” on YouTube.

How about using birds’ discarded feathers for decorations? Discarded seashells? Pearls from clams that died naturally?

Wow! I’ve been using the internet since 1995 and I’ve never heard of this site. Thanks! I’m actually interested in learning about mixing drinks!

Gravity wells don’t have breakpoints like that though. They extend out to infinity, decreasing with the reciprocal square of the distance (Inverse-square law).

What you may be thinking of is the event horizon, but the way that works isn’t nearly as magical as people might think. As your orbit spirals in closer to the black hole (which takes an extremely long time from a stable orbit) your escape velocity gradually and smoothly increases. The event horizon is the point at which your escape velocity reaches the speed of light. What this means in practice is that you disappear from view, as the light reflecting off you can no longer escape.

The really weird part though is the gravitational time dilation effects near a black hole. To an outside observer, your approach to the event horizon (during spiral in) slows down more and more. That observer never sees you cross the event horizon because time dilation extends your descent time out to infinity. So you’ll end up appearing frozen in time, never reaching the event horizon.

Pretty funny but not accurate. Black holes do not suck you in like some kind of giant vacuum cleaner in space. You orbit a black hole just like you would any other large object (star, planet, etc). In fact, if you were in orbit around a star that spontaneously became a black hole of the same mass, your orbit wouldn’t change at all!

If you want lowest possible cost then canned stuff is out. Buy beans and rice in 20 lb bags. Hard to beat that!

I think it’s susceptible to the same problems we have now. Elites gonna form and do their thing. Whether they’re in the party or on the board of directors, the effect is the same.

I think we’re just way too naive about systems. We expect them to work for us without putting in any effort. We should stop focusing so much on systems and start focusing on communities and cultures.

The best societies have tight-knit communities and a culture of cooperation. You can’t achieve that by passing laws or writing a new constitution or whatever. You have to get buy-in from everyone.

From what I’ve heard, wild animals that lose their fear of humans are much more dangerous than ones who aren’t used to us.

Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

Yep! And people have different sized feet, so measuring distance in feet is silly and arbitrary!

No. The comic is talking about airspeed: speed relative to the wind.

It records an air speed of 0. Isn’t that working exactly as intended?

Sure you can. Just need a pitot tube!

The issue with prions is they’re not that contagious. An infected person is not a danger to other people. This means you need to contaminate all the meat in the food supply because you can’t rely on transmission.

It lubricates the skin for a smoother shave!

I just use a few drops of oil from my squeeze bottle and then spread it around. Oil is easy to spread around and it sticks to everything (which is why we need soap to wash it off).

The soap is the source of the lather. Shaving cream is literally a soap lather/foam. Loads and loads of microscopic bubbles.