"It doesn't teach the basic number facts, only to count faster," says someone as quoted prominently on wikipedia.
I suppose it can be fast, but the main use I've got out of it over the years is to count automatically using only my fingers while my brain is busy doing other things.
Yes, that is the type of monopoly they have. It's one that would probably not attract the attention of anti-trust regulators. If you're not coming from the free software world I guess it looks like that's the only way things can be.
In some web browsers, a mouse click gives the site permission to do things like open pop-up windows and play videos.
But it's still probably more often about collecting data to add to your profile, recording which topics interested you sufficiently to get you to click the button.
Maybe you could mention a few examples of times they got it wrong, what specifically they said that "didn't stand up to scrutiny", and how if at all they responded upon learning about it?
If whichever nation gives it a try next bucks the trend and learns from the mistakes of the past instead of doggedly repeating them, it could go well for them.
I check in on hbomberguy's channel once in a while hoping that some day we might learn whether he's retired, or whether he's just taking his time making a 14-hour video about the history of the smiley face.
Don't worry about it, other than being in the wrong spot it looks like a fine post to me. I'm not sure where, exactly, would've been better — I only subscribe to relatively few lemmy communities.
The thing they used to show kids to try and get us interested in computer programming back when I was in school about a hundred years ago was called Logo. Apparently there's now an online version called LYNX which might be worth a look.
That video came up in my youtube recommendations last night, and I watched it. Pretty good, although if you've used Windows in the past ten years there aren't going to be any real surprises in there. It sucks for all the reasons people usually complain about, and it's all getting worse lately.
It's not the same thing as slavery I think. But it's in the same moral category as slavery. It would be impossible for me to participate in such a thing in any way.
It's "social media platforms such as X or Facebook" that are driving people of all ages "to the right." By now you'd think word might've spread further that there's more to the Internet than that kind of disreputable backwater.
I dunno, I've just seen a few weird ones over the years. My search didn't turn up any better place to start than the wikipedia page on musical notation which does cover quite a few of them.
"It doesn't teach the basic number facts, only to count faster," says someone as quoted prominently on wikipedia.
I suppose it can be fast, but the main use I've got out of it over the years is to count automatically using only my fingers while my brain is busy doing other things.