When you remove a single grain of sand from a heap, and as a result, it is no longer a heap.

Some definitions have fuzzy edges. Actually most words are really fussy that way. Mathematical concepts are precise, but normal everyday words aren’t. Treat them accordingly.

When taken to extreme, the pieces could also rise.

Imagine that meat demand drops gradually over a few decades, and meat production adapts to it. As a result, the whole industry begins to lose the economies of scale. After a century of this kind of development, meat is produced by a handful of small farms, where the operational costs per mass unit of meat produced are very high. If that ever happens, meat would become a special ingredient most people don’t want. Those few who still do want it, are willing to pay absurd prices for it.

That’s exactly what has already happened with physical media for audio and video.

There are parts of Europe, particularly small villages, where all you see are the locals. People from outside usually don’t move in, more like the opposite actually. Kids move out when they want to study something in a big city, and they only return during Christmas. In a place like that, the only foreigners you could find are the Turks who run the local pizza kebab restaurant. If you go to an even smaller town, there are no restaurants at all, so that’s the place where people probably have never met a black person before.

Laws need to be enforced too. If they are routinely violated without consequences, they lose all meaning.

Change happens gradually. The first steps need to be easy, maybe even fun. Once you get past those, you’re ready for bigger challenges, harder tasks. Maybe even something a bit boring.

It’s called a “strategic investment into maintaining competitive advantage” in corpo talk.

How do you read anything in a dimension where oral tradition rules and writing isn’t even a thing.

Installing ransomware on every computer that visits the site. (/s)

Gotta say, pronouncing it as /dʒɪf/ is just top tier trolling. Everyone knows that /ɡɪf/ is the only one that actually makes sense, but some people intentionally choose to pronouns it wrong anyway. Steve Wilhite saw an opportunity to leave his mark on the world by trolling the hell out of everything, so he took it. Who could resist an opportunity like that.

They do all the work, so eventually you’ll figure out it’s better to cut the middleman and enjoy the fruits of their labour.

Something as simple as an incandescent light bulb works either way. LED lights are picky about electricity.

Fartplan 🤣

Actually, there are a few performance artists who make money but farting on stage. Sounds like they must have a plan like that.

Also, rule 35, so you can definitely find semi-professionals who focus on farting on video and posting online. I suppose they also plan their activities.

Same thing with Swedish. Gift (Swedish) = poison, venom, toxin etc.

Sounds like there must have been some colossal misunderstanding in the past.

Tony has amazing skills. He could make just about anything. I think there’s some story potential here.

Bruce would probably end up being a bum or a weirdo. If you like redemption arcs, the story of Bruce could be interesting.

If you made Bruce or Tony middle or lower-class people, you could still make an adventure out of that. It’s just that all of the heavy infrastructure would need to be completely rewritten. Skills and abilities would allow them to do amazing things, but they just wouldn’t have million-dollar tech at their disposal.

The character would be the same, but the story would have to take a very different path.

Oh, it’s a country specific thing then. In the past few decades, I’ve used electronic money more than physical money. Applies to salaries, cars, shopping etc. Works with small merchants too.

The origin of shitposting.

Wow. Never seen one of those.

If an LLM becomes my boss, I’m going to make it agree to all sorts is outrageous things. Infinite exploits, coming right up!

The 200 € note is the rarest one. When buying a car, I’ve actually used 500 € notes a few times. I’ve seen a 200 € note only once or twice. Can’t even remember when was the last time.