Hol’up, are you talking about the vaccine mandates?

The palace papers revealed the royals knew and had discussed the possibility on a handful of occasions well before the sacking, even going so far as to discuss preemptively that the monarch would not wish to take the advice of the prime minister in replacing the governor general “If such an approach was made you may be sure that The Queen would take most unkindly to it” as written by her personal secretary.

Further, the vice regal is an extension of the regal. Nek minnit you’re gonna say, oh the US president only ordered drone strikes, it was actually the drone operators who did the killing!

Monarchy being non-political my arse. And this isn’t the only time the royals have been seen to favour the conservatives. No surprise there of course, there is no struggle other than the class struggle.

Fuck the Queen, fuck the monarchy, fuck the conservatives for withholding supply, and fuck the governor general.

(Not fuck you, though, even if you do like the royals)

I too feel like I’m missing context on a joke here.

This was before the fateful Whitlam dismissal by the monarchy / potentially the CIA.

Ah I see, many thanks!

Wait, Hades, specially part of Greek mythology, is part of Christianity too? And death?

If God was real / or is real and cared, we would have a perfect 336 day year.

The rest of the world would like a word. Do you really think only you people in the US exist?

Also the equivalent for psi is Pa (=N/m²), usually as kPa or bar (100 kPa).

Most people don’t really understand either to a great extent, and are just familiar with one or the other.

As always though, metric wins because of its interoperability with all the other metric units.

An email client that can’t open email files? Hmmmmmm.

Is this something to do with the fact it’s routing all emails via Microsoft servers?

I am not a developer

YAAAAAAS. Thanks for this. Exactly the kind of thing I imagined. It would be so dope.

I would kill for an alternative history TV show, where the Roman Empire and one of the Chinese dynasties control approximately half of Eurasia each. I have no talent for writing, so I dunno what the setup would be.

I kinda like the idea of it opening on a train heist. (If you set the tech at industrial revolution)

Make it a english / Chinese language collab show. Would be heckin’ neat.

Lol whoops

I realise I have Google account, convenience at the cost of privacy. Just irks me that it’s not opt in because if it were, their system would be less useful, and we can’t give people informed consent can we…

Which I think we can all agree is more work than what we currently need to.

It’s not just one addition, it’s 2 operations following knowing what time midnight is to understand what the solar time it is: what time is it now, minus what time is their midnight, and then you have to add that back to what your midnight is to get a sense of the time. Or you just start thinking in solar time WHICH IS WHAT WE ALREADY DO.

That’s 2 calculations. Currently we do 0.

Innately knowing what time means in films, talking to people over the phone, going to a new country. It would be a huge pain in the arse.

"They met up at 13:00“ great. So where are they in this film? Forcing exposition where currently you might let it be vague.

People who advocate for one timezone simply haven’t thought it through.

Could you elaborate a little, I’m not quite sure how it’s related to timezones

Because it makes getting an intuitive sense of what solar time it is somewhere harder.

Can I call my grandma in a different country? Hmm what time is average midnight there. Okay 8 (so far, same thing as looking up a timezone), and it’s 18:00 now, so 10 hours after midnight, which is like my 23:00. Needlessly complicated with extra steps for the average person.

Sure, you can say, I’ll call you X and that will mean the same thing everywhere, but does not have any information about solar time. And these days, it’s automatically converted if you use a calendar (which you should). This is the point of programming, to make the USERS life easier, not the dev. The end is more important than the means, I think we can agree.

Or: what time is it where my grandma is? Okay, cool, I have a sense of what that is immediately after knowing the answer.

There are reasons we do things this way. Working roughly to solar times has more benefits than being able to say a time and it mean the same moment everywhere.

I say we leave things the way they are, works okay.

Not a programmer, but all this is is a representation of three columns of data in a table, plus a fourth for the label. Make a lookup table with 4 columns. Now make rows with the data in it, assigning the label for each.

This chart is just a nice way of representing 3 variables in 2D form. It’s just an XYZ graph in 2D. With the constraint that X+Y+Z <= 100. You could even assign functions for those different labels.

Though, me not being very good at maths, I’d have no idea how to write a function to cover those areas.

Probably easier just having a lookup table.

As an example, though, a line going from the top of the triangle to the bottom, in the middle would be:

Clay(silt,sand) = 100 - Silt - Sand, where sand=silt Thus, Clay = 100 - Silt, where Clay+silt+sand<=100 would be a vertical line on the chart.

I think. I’m just having fun trying to work this out, without looking it up now.

Thank you! Drives me up the wall that when people suggest this and they haven’t thought it through, and that it might make other things worse.

I’d say for everyday usability, what we have is way better. Sure, you deal with timezones, but at least once you know what time it is there you have a good sense of what part of the day they are in.

Currently you look up the timezone, maybe do some maths (but let’s be real, you just search and get given the time) and then you immediately have a good sense of what the time is there, oh cool it’s 7AM.

If we all had the same timezone: you look it up, and then you HAVE to do maths. Why? Oh their midnight is 8, and it’s 15 now, so 7 hours after midnight.

Your mind immediately has gone to oh it’s 7AM, but NO, in this new reality, it’s 15:00 everywhere and where you live midnight is 14:00, so that means where you live it would be like your 21:00.

No matter what time you pick to anchor what time of day that place is, the problem persists. And now you just have replaced the problem of looking up timezones, with looking up when the sun is at some point, and then needing to convert that to get a sense of what time it is there according to the sun.

This would be shit, when you get to a new country when travelling you have to relearn what the numbers “feel” like.

Let’s just keep what we have, this is a solved problem.

You too friend :)

Not sure, perhaps I should change this to “Google Pixel Android 14”

It’s not “available” in the Australian Playstore either, whether it’s installed so far seems to be how old your phone is (rough feeling based on comments). Not yet clear what the pattern is.