Jason Fried, Basecamp’s chief executive, detailed the policies in a blog post on Monday, calling “societal and political discussions” on company messaging tools “a major distraction.”
and now the cofounder is writing anti-DEI screeds and publishing them to the company blog. no distractions here
theres a lot of names in anatomy that are like, some guy looked at this and compared it to x so now it's named after x. the atria of the heart have little appendages that are called auricles (which literally means ear) because the first guy who decided to crack a guy open and look at his heart thought that they looked like dog's ears from the ventral view
something else that is funny is the concept of the motor/somatosensory homunculi. the motor/somatosensory cortices of the brain are disproportionately dedicated to different regions of the body so physiologists decided that the best way to describe that was to make monstrosities where body parts were proportional to their representation in the motor/somatosensory cortices eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensory_and_motor_homunculi.jpg
here in new zealand i always thought that a frown was kind of... both??? but i dont remember ever like, learning what expressions were other than like happy :) sad :( angry >:( i feel like its one of those words i picked up from context in books and understood as a thing you do when you're sad
i dont know anything about programming but are you saying that this person looked at your code, didnt bother running it, and was like "🤔 looks like its not good enough"
Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes
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neku wrote
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Isn't that what a television or monitor does?