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Likely Jan Lukas

@byteseu

Indeed. #Shrinkflation is showing up everywhere. 😡

I can't prove my lip balm has reduced contents as I didn't keep any old ones for comparison (but what used to last a month or more is now gone in 3 weeks, and my lip-chappedness has not increased!), but just last week I spotted it on the XL package of paper towel I routinely use. 😡😡😡

mstdn.ca/@likelyjanlukas/11449

#products
#size
#weight
#volume

Two paper towel bales with the total square metres of each listed. The package sizes are identical but one is physically lighter to carry. The older package notes 44.8m^2 whilst the newer package notes 40.8m^2. IOW, four metres of paper towel gone. Price remains the same at ~$30/bale. My comment below these images: Sooo, NOT my imagination that the new bale of paper was a LOT lighter: 4 metres lighter!!!
Mastodon CanadaLikely Jan Lukas (@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca)Attached: 1 image Truth can be found in the strangest of places: in this instance, #shrinkflation on the shrinkwrap! Bought these two bales ~2 weeks apart from the same location/retailer and the most recent one felt suspiciously easier to carry than usual. (At this time I rely a LOT on disposable towels for all cleaning etc as one of several means of reducing risks of infections whilst remaining on oral #chemo.) #yeg #PaperTowels #disability #ChronicIllness
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leChris :mastodon:

@flugarzt ... Hier der Link zur Webseite mit der entsprechenden Kartendarstellung, auf der man sich selbst ein Bild machen, wie die Größe bzw. die Verzerrungen eines Landes mit dem Abstand vom Äquator in Richtung der Pole zunehmen: thetruesize.com/

The True SizeCompare Countries With This Simple ToolDrag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.
#thetruesize#map#country
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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visualcapitalist.com/mercator- <-- shared technical article
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equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines

map/graphic - Greenland shown on the globe
map - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries
map/image - Greenland shown on the globe
map/graphic - Russia shown on the globe
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@bagder Problem with that is (besides occasional bugfixes), most people including myself would see #curl to be functionally complete and anything "nice to have" would be considered not worth the balooning in #complexity and #size.

  • I mean, does curl need to be able to do #BitTorrent (magnet:), #IPFS (ipfs://) or god forbid #blockchain (i.e. #EVM) support?

  • Do you really want to integrate @torproject / #Tor support natively into curl when using #HTTP (localhost:8118) and #SOCKS5 (localhost:9050) #proxy allows for the same and doesn't necessitate having to handle and ingest Tor arguments as well??

In fact if #toybox didn't have a #wget implementation that I could use for OS/1337 I would've merely chosen tiny-curl -o as a global alias or if #tinycurl wasn't an option, curl -o instead.

  • Maybe someone who wants to have said functionality like tor support built-in will go and IDK make i.e. #neocurl or sth. along those lines or build something like #ethcurl or #torcurlor #ipfscurl or whatever...

That being said I am glad curl isn't solely maintained by you but has other contributors (give them a shoutout!) but I also am glad you maintain that vital software that most "#TechIlliterate #Normies" most likely never heard of but propably use on a daily basis as part of all the #tech they use to #consume media with...

  • I consider curl to be "the #vim of downloaders" (tho that's kinda insulting and limiting since curl is more than just a downloader and more intuitive than vim) with wget being "the #vi of downloaders" (tho wget is even simpler to use than vi)...

Either way, curl is awesome...

curl.securl
#neocurl#ethcurl#torcurl
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The greatest moment in [Barack Obama's] speech wasn’t a quotable line but rather an exquisite and petty dick joke he unsubtly made with his hands to mock Trump’s obsession with crowd 'sizes.' …

I'm glad the Obamas finally let loose. The first Black family that ascended to the White House had to bite their tongue for nearly 16 years as the GOP and Donald Trump unleashed racist and Islamophobic dog whistles against them."

~ Wajahat Ali

#BarackObama #Trump #DNC #Size
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/the

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali · The Obamas Have Earned Their PettyBy THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali
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