I would let the user choose to see the new content vs old but upvoted. Also It is important to publish the ranking behind it, if it is not straight forward.
Good catch. From their website "Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations."
In addition to that, the physical experience works almost always. In the digital world, you might have a connection problem with your router, Spotify app (replace with your app of choice) freezes and so on. The reliability is what I miss most.
I think that there might be rose tinted spectacles in use here.
Tapes (both audio and video) wore out over time and could get chewed up.
CDs and Vinyl records could get scratched or could crack.
I can recall spending a long time trying to sort out problems with CDs or VHS in the 1990s or 2000s, but can't think of a time where Spotify didn't work for longer than a few seconds.
Most of all they got lost. My family had an entire spindle for lost DVDs, that we'd set the cases down somewhere and couldn't find where. When we did find those cases, we usually just replaced one DVD on the spindle with another that was misfiled in the discovered case.
Every good classicist has heard the story why unlike every other Greek tribe the Makedonians did not erect tropaia on the battlefield. They used to, but after a major battle a lion came down from the hills, found the new scratching post, knocked it over, and left. They considered that a message from Zeus and stopped.
Lions are mentioned in the Odyssey, implying that Greek listeners would have been familiar with them. I'd always assumed these were some sort of mountain cat, but that map suggests no, actual lions!
if you scroll all the way East on the Tabula Peutengeriana (a medieval copy of an ancient Roman road map) you get to India where "in his locis elephanti nascuntur" meaning "in this place Elephants are born" and a little West of that the same thing for scorpions. Some detail pics in this blog post including the Elephants one, and you can find full size scans of it but I don't want to deep link to them because they're huge.
I think many artist interviews or respective wiki pages mention how their early taste in music was influenced by wondering through their parents music collection - be it tapes, vinyl or CDs. With everyone on their own Spotify account that sounds way more complicated.
Is it though? You can flip through a catalog that would put even great record stores to shame effortlessly. You could just choose to listen to your favorites over and over instead, but discs hardly prevented that.
But having all the music is essentially the same as having none of the music. Having access to parents’ music is about the curation more than the expanse. This is why I still buy my music rather than rent it with something like Spotify.
I don't find that's true at all. I've discovered quite a few genres this way that I might not have ever bothered to check out if I had to go buy an album first (after all you want to be pretty sure you are going to like it before you part with your money).
Anecdotally, I have 2 friends who are doctors in the kommun and both said the hospitals are short staffed, beds are filling up and they're seeing much more of the RSV/flu/Covid mix coming to the ER from people that are not in the listed "at risk groups". This matches what my best friends wife, who is a pulmonologist in the US, is saying.
Sweeden seems to be recommending further boosters to 65+. For those under 65, if you fall in certain categories.
People aged 18–64 who are medically at-risk due to:
- chronic cardiovascular disease, including stroke and high blood pressure (hypertension)
- chronic lung disease such as COPD, and brittle asthma
- other conditions that impair lung function or the ability to cough and clear mucus (for example, extreme obesity, neuromuscular disorders or multiple disabilities)
- chronic liver and kidney failure
- diabetes types 1 and 2
- conditions that severely weaken the immune system as a result of illness or treatment
- Down’s syndrome
- those who are pregnant with pregnancy-related risk factors such as being older than 35, high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, a BMI over 30 or other factor following individual assessment.
Same for Canada RSV especially but also influenza. I'm not sure about covid. And beds filling with those is bad since that doesn't even include the usual emergencies heart attack, cancer, car crash, births.
The provincial and federal governments here encourage all to get the bivalent vaccine.
"National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) continues to recommend that bivalent Omicron-containing mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are the preferred booster products for the authorized age groups. (Strong NACI recommendation)"
Could not agree more. Most city infra is not built for bakfiets-style bikes so they clog bike lanes. Paired with an electric motor they are dangerous given the speed they can go and their intrinsic weigh.
Most of the time I see people carry a single child or a bag of goods at best. Quite similar to how often people use SUVs for actual offroad riding, like never. Don't get me wrong, if you are transporting stuff on a daily basis these are great. But it seems for the majority of time a normal bike plus backpack or child seat would have been sufficient.
I think killing civilians using laughable pretext (weapons of mass destruction anyone?) with the goal of taking over or ensuring control over resources is not particular a Russian thing. Like invading an oil-rich country over the pretext of weapons of mass destruction.
The Realtek Ethernet is know to cause issues. Based on reports on various Mac forums the most reliable option for Ethernet is Apple's own Thunderbolt adapter which uses the Broadcom BCM57762. For current Macs it needs to be used in connection with the Apple's Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter.
