The variance of work task durations is widening, so there are many tasks that take 15 mins and tasks still bottlenecked at their original speeds (due to systemic, or more rarely capabilities reasons). This incentivises people to do more 15 min tasks even if they're less essential
I was also just informed that "Butterfly" by Smile is not, as I had assumed in my childhood on account of their odd English accent, Japanese, but instead Swedish. Wow the Europeans were busy in the 90s.
I was just informed that the song about "I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world/ Life in plastic, it's fantastic" is not, as I had assumed in my childhood, United States American, but instead Danish-Norwegian.
I was also just informed that "Butterfly" by Smile is not, as I had assumed in my childhood on account of their odd English accent, Japanese, but instead Swedish. Wow the Europeans were busy in the 90s.
The US has a surprising tolerance to consumers not getting the best stuff, like with drones and electric vehicles etc, as long as the state and companies have the state-of-the-art
How will they enforce it???
I expect NDAA getting expanded next year and it will start covering Chinese models (rn it only covers Huawei's or ZTE's telecom system)
But this won't cover non American enterprises or non USG contractors
They will have to Treasury sanctions if they want to really ban Chinese models
Even then enforcement will be really hard
I knew a guy in college who said he lived in fear of his partner ever discovering northernlion because it would explain too much of his personality. unfortunately now this is becoming true of me as well
If I had a penny for every time a bubble tea shop scrubbed their franchisers' name in questionable ways I would have two pennies (my photo is from the former Yifang Tea in SF Chinatown that is just cats now)
The Yifang fruit tea in Chinatown abandoned the franchise and they're censoring the Yifang logo in the promotional video they play on loop, it's very funny
6 months ago none of them could even really output lilypond intelligibly without being given two or three examples and a mountain of rules, so this is actually incredible progress even if it's not exactly good.