That is just amazing. How the human mind works is so bizarre at times. Even when there’s a good deal, people just don’t take it? Wasn’t it enticing enough?
Either way, some companies exploit the same mechanics to sell trash for a high price. It’s so weird and pretty dark.
Others might call it straight-up lying, deception or even misleading. Calling it “Amazon sales policy” just makes it sound nicer.
If you’re really good at customer service (i.e. manipulation), you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but you’ll get a discount of the same amount, because you’re such a great pal. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.
I suggest we switch to Planck based units. Just slap on a suitable multiplier to make the final unit practical in normal life and engineering. Basically like the mol unit but with a more precise and natural foundation.
If the fundamental constants of the universe aren’t exactly constant, we’re screwed and there are no good units.
Yep. This stuff is surprisingly complicated, and that’s why we need to measure the day using a standardized unit instead of defining the unit with the day.
Incidentally, Wikipedia has a nice graph about the variation of the length of day. It’s surprisingly messy and pretty far from the ideals of antiquity.
Best of all, none of those natural reference values are constant. They drift gradually, and lunar months won’t be 30 days forever just like a day won’t be 24 hours in the future.
What could possibly go right.
In my area, pretty much every TV channel has narrowly dodged extinction by starting to offer streaming services. They have a mix of American reality trash, Icelandic crime drama, British comedies etc.
I really like the idea of having my own server, where I could have a bunch of cool stuff like email, VPN, Nextcloud, and so much more. The primary reason why I don’t have a server like that, is because I can’t trust myself to follow the best practices. For a while now, I’ve been thinking that I should hire a proper professional to take care of all that.
The classic “I didn’t have the time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead” excuse doesn’t really apply any more. Ramble as much as you feel like and let the LLM worry about refining it into coherent communication. Minor tweaks are also welcome, if the original post is short enough.
On the downside, they probably ended up spending more money and receiving less in return. If they bought their junk from Amazon, they also contributed to upholding poor labor practices. Nobody wins in this situation except for the corpos.