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I started to watch him as he never pulled punches and picked some great match ups of guests and hot topics.

I stopped because his insufferable ego kept compelling him to continuously talk over everyone with his non-stop opinionated smug. Once I noticed I was just watching one man listening to the sound of his own voice while guests that I wanted to hear from get repeatedly cut off at every third word by his desire to manufacture Jerry Springer type drama, I realised how punchable I truely found him to be.

I don't think that's the full story.

How often do you think people ask Google a question, either to the assistant or just in the search bar and get served the answer scraped directly into the search results, and never need to actually click into the article at all?

Facebook does this too.

Between that and needing to adjust ones journalism style to appease click throughs and the algorithm just to get eyes on ads, dilutes the quality of the write ups as an added problem.

I think making social media pay might be misguided, but there is definitely a problem, maybe even a form of plagiarism committed by alot of these social media giants by taking other people's work and serving it up directly, and summarized on their own sites next to a link that many people won't click on. It is after all in their best interest to get you to stay on the feed feeding.

Reddit is absolutely guilty of this too. It's just that we happily do it for them and create TLDR bots and the like.

It's absolutely fair if Google is populating their feeds with weather, news and other content from other peoples hard work, and then having the balls to serve up ads, that these websites should have a right to claim a cut of the advertising or not have the information shown.

Amazing

Coincidentally Ive gotten back in to Star Craft 2. Still a banger of a game! I hope that the franchise survives.

Haha! I think I've convinced her that the colour doesn't matter as much as she thinks.

Yeah. I imagine the Global's are less of a hassle. The Chinese ROM was horrific. Got most of it to work eventually but could never get the assistant to work at all pretty much. MIUI in general I found to be a bit of a hack experience.

Good shout. Yeah I'm struggling to comprehend that people pay top tier laptop / second hand car prices for a phone. The 8 pro is basically perfect otherwise. 7 or maybe 8 vanilla could be the way to go.

Thanks. Added to my research pile!

From my understanding, yeah kinda. Will preface this by saying I'm not an astrophysicist in even the broadest sense.

But for time to exist at all, we have to assume there was a zero. And seeing as time is a measure of space, if time was zero, then space was too.

We can also 'see' the age of the universe. As we can see the earliest cosmic soup behind our stars, and through red shift (the way light shifts it's wavelength over time) can calculate the age of this background to 13 billion years. So we can say the age of the universe was 13 billion years ago (relative to our viewing angle of our telescopes.)

We also know that even though that light itself took 13 billion years to reach us, The universe, and space it occupies, is expanding and we theorise that it could be as much as 89 billion light years wide. This doesn't mean the universe is now 89 billion years old though. If you drew on a balloon and blew it up, the drawing would get bigger but there wouldnt suddenly be more ink. It's just expanded in all directions.

We also know that space and time is affected by gravity. Space shrinks around black holes, and so does time. It's not a clean straight line, but waves, stretches and curves as it is affected by the masses around it. From the relative positions of these black holes time and space will still appear the same and light will still travel at the same speed, it will still cross the same distance even though that distance has been compressed.

In other words from an outsider looking in it would appear that light has slowed down, and from an insider looking out it would seem that the universe outside is moving faster than it does to us on earth but this is warping nature of time and space. It doesn't make the universe older or younger, It makes the time it took light to reach them appear different.

So for a person living in a black hole today, the red shifted light of the cosmic microwave background may look much much older, or may not have reached them yet as space has compressed, and as such the background is also further away (in raw space) and the time would be older. But thats relative to them and not ACTUALLY longer ago. Only because we're still measuring that time scale in earth time units from our perspective in this conversation.

When I say living in a black hole I mean off the edge of the event horizon where time and space can still work according to our known principles of course!

Astrophysicists in this thread please correct me. This is a layman's attempt at an ELI5 and is likely riddled with slight misinterpretations.

Holy shit what a bunch of blistering thunder cunts. I hope Microsoft guts them.

It's got to do with a poor sleep routine mixed with the stress and caffeine that it often comes with.

Cut out caffeine three hours before bed, don't eat too soon before bed, try get into a regular sleep and wake up routine and try get at least 6 hours minimum. And don't go to bed with your phone in your face!

Getting some exercise in the day helps a lot too!

Invert this graph for Londoners.