Funny political comment aside - As a European I only knew about the New York style before. Although usually with roasted onions. Which is a shame, because especially the Chicago one looks awesome! What is the filling in the Miami variant?

l often think the same until I actually have a chance to talk to the people in question.

Most times it turns out they are quite similar to me.

You are probably better than you think you are!

You might be interested in this TED talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39x_WTPix0&t=0

Partly yes, but also of culture/history.

E.g. England that invented it having a really high density or Eastern Germany being basically blank (main tennis hype has been in the 80’s in Western Germany).

I don’t get the meme… They throw it all in the rectangular hole?

But the thing with the dying bees is just the marketing simplification, everyone involved knows that.

I thought the same after writing the gravity wave comment. Really not sure what the effects would be and the equations involved are far from intuitive…

Is Randall doing new What-If stuff? I have only seen old articles on his website recently.

I wonder if you had the opportunity to do so leisurely.

A suddenly vanishing sun would also mean a spectularly high energy gravity wave hitting the earth. You might be dead before even realizing that anything is off…

There is a really great short story by Larry Niven based on a similar premise:

“Inconstant Moon”

There is also an “Outer Limits” episode based on this. I watched that before knowing the short story and it is one of only 2 or three OL episodes that I still have an active memory of…

Anybody watched the video? What’s the verdict?

Yes, Orangina is definitly in another league. My first bottle of it practically ruined all other soft drinks for me, can’t stand them anymore. Besides certain kinds of sparkling mineral water it is practically the only carbonated stuff I drink once in a while. Oh, and I also like Bionade which is also not so sweet and slightly bitter tasting because of its malt basis. But Bionade is probably even harder to get than Orangina in most parts of the world…

Remember playing this quite some time at a friends. But I think we played Wing Commander even more for some reason.

And way before that: Elite on a C64. That blow my mind at the time. Connected lines in 3D! Wow. And yes, I am old.

But my favorite of all time has to be Privateer II - The Darkening. Relatively open world with a cool background story and incredibly immersive with fitting prerendered cutscene visuals and lots of real actors doing the keyscenes.

Finally, I am not the only one! Feels good.

What a phantastic thread!

We have had linguistics, sociology, physics and now biology in the form of colour perception so far.

Cross domain discussions are great! :-)

Well in my case it’s more about where to draw the line between blue and green.

I can differentiate the colours but just still call things blue that my GF (and most of the rest of the world, apart from Japanese and the german dialect I grew up with as it seems) already calls green.

Yes, exactly.

E.g. in Germany I don’t have heard anyone using Indigo and Purpur as major colours but only in combination with blue : “Purpurblau” and “Indigoblau” describing certain forms of blue.

So only blue and violet in german rainbows. And ultraviolet because most of us are more engineer than poet nowadays ;-)

Interesting point.

And I am a little bit with the Japanese in this regard. At least my GF always complains that I am unable to correctly distinguish between green and blue ;-)

I’m confused…

Doesn’t a rainbow contain all colours by definition?

lf it is a region lock than even if you use a VPN you propably won’t be able to buy anything.

Unless you also happen to own a japanese credit card. And a shipping address in Japan for physical stuff.

(Sad European noices…)

Should have kept the original name though.

“Bierstadt” would have been awesome!

But that’s exactly the point.

E-Ink Displays would have been unable to explain for me from my thoroughly * informed * perspective as an HF and digital communications student.

Active displays in one form or another had been around for 50 years or so at that time. So have been practially all base technology concepts of the much mentioned smartphones. Nothing magical about an optimized version, just extrapolation.

But E-Ink? A * brand new * technology * without prior art * rapidly emerging from obscure theoretical concept to widespread use within just 15 years or so…

I am actually still a little bit awed each time I switch on one of those…