When Apple announces a feature that Samsung phones don’t have, Samsung also trolls them because that feature is bad. And then a year later, Samsung advertises that they also have that feature.

So, all the uploaders deserve a ban?

Plot twist: the toddler has a multi-year marketing push worth tens if not hundreds of millions, which convinced a lot of people who don’t know the first thing about chess that it really is very impressive, and all those chess-types are just jealous.

This came out in the wake of a different story, where Cobb County put stickers in the biology textbooks that warned that “evolution is just a theory.” So yes, while satire, it’s not as big of a stretch as it seems twenty (?!?) years later.

Damn I feel old.

As a bonus, I found a higher res version of the base image while trying to jog my memory.

The CTO at my last job was pulling down millions a year despite barely knowing anything about anything, and being little more than a glorified bully. He got there via project management, after all.

Relevant CGP Grey

I’m, uh, just gonna go back and grab a coat real quick.

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I used to enjoy the old Joystiq site. Followed them to Engadget. Hell, I used the Joystiq url redirect bookmark until it stopped working. Might as well just delete the bookmark now, no sense it watching it slide further into irrelevancy.

That’s what she said.

I laughed way too long at this.

SciShow did a piece (partially) about this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEFQH5UXHQ

And Veritasium did a deeper dive a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA

The whole situation is thoroughly fucked up, but hey, as long as people are making money amirite? 😑

Getting a heat pump has been on my want-to-do list for years. But even though my furnace is aging, it still works so it’s been hard to justify while there were other issues going on. Accelerating adoption is only going to make the process easier when the time comes.