I found a small continuity error in #DoctorWho!
In the episode Space Babies, after The Doctor enables Universal Roaming on Ruby's phone.
Can you spot it?
@Edent it's not a continuity error. The Doctor can just change the orientation of objections instantaneously. It's how 12 managed to keep a filled cup of tea in his pocket.
How can they do that you ask?
Something something wibbly wobbly wooweeeoooh
Just read a take that “30 years ago we’d have to wait days for pictures of the Aurora”.
I think this is a case of “mysterious old technology mythical tales”.
First of all, digital cameras or the ability to convert analog video to digital stills existed, widely, since the 1980s. For consumers digital cameras were available in 1994.
For film, the fact is that in the 80s/90s there were 1-hour photo places literally everywhere.
Newspapers had photos of current events since the 19th century.
Unless Apple is about to announce that you can choose to install macOS on iPads at WWDC (or a huge overhaul of iPadOS), the pricing of the new iPads is pretty wild.
@Edent I had to look up what Chase is. As sophisticatingly horrifying as this is, I guess those of us who aren't with Chase are not vulnerable to this?
story prompt: alternate universe where we still have iPhones/smartphones that are functionally identical to our versions of those things but due to a quirk of product development we call them "QuickTakes" and "cameras" rather than "iPhones" and "phones"
@sundogplanets I voted yes but it took me a while because I knew it as the "Kessler Effect" instead of Syndrome. For a second I thought it was some medical thing 😅
I think Europeans tend to refer to it as "Kessler Effect" more. Idk if this is of any significance
What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?
@RickiTarr not a US highschool. We call it Sixth Form and it's optional technically i.e. by 16 you can legally work full time so this school is only if you wanna go to uni
There were no social dynamics similar to US ones I see on TV. Popular and unpopular doesn't really mean anything. Everyone knew each other and hung out but you'd tend to stick with the ones you got along with the most but still would occasionally hang out with other groups
Holy fuck I have just discovered that the phone app in Android 13 [EDIT: no; see below] vibrates when an outgoing call connects
An outgoing call
There is no way to turn this off except to disable all vibration on your phone
So you make a phone call, you put it up to your ear, and then this thing that you've put up to the side of your face vibrates intensely. It is the most deeply unpleasant, unnecessary thing. I already knew I was making a fucking phone call I pressed the button
@lzg didn't even grow up with bunnies and eggs as a kid. It's definitly a very recent cultural import in my country. Easter was about finally being happy for Jesus after 40 days of forgoing the stuff you like but it had to be important enough that it hurt
'Diversity, equity, and inclusion (usually abbreviated DEI) are organizational frameworks which seek to promote "the fair treatment and full participation of all people", particularly groups "who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination" on the basis of identity or disability.' (Wikipedia)
I guess it depends on the reliability of the record keeping of the country? I mean ... if I were to look at my family tree, I'd go to the citizenship office and look up birth certificates of my family members. Sure people lie and there is definitely a cutoff point where things start getting less reliable, but I'm pretty sure I'd be able to track my family back for 100 years ... maybe 120 where I'd say it's pretty reliable
