Soen

@ohsoen.bsky.social

Autistic Iconoclastic Polymath: Award-winning Software Developer, Neuroscientist, CAA Qualified Drone Pilot, Go-go, Viking, DJ and Podcaster #LGBTQIA

I do wonder if the people that consistently lie, e.g. Trump, Farage etc, know about Google? Facts can easily be checked in seconds. Of course they'd then say (whatever source) is lying. It's just lies and denial all the way down.

TIL that Donald Trump has bankrupt his companies 6 times; and was almost personally insolvent in 1990. He's got a lot of personal debt, and using his presidency to make illegal money to bail himself out. Certainly not someone you want as president.

Funny moment there, I typed in "orange narcissist" into Google and Google told me that it was a synonym for "Donald Trump". I love that for him 😂

When Uber Eats and DoorDash hid the tip button, delivery workers paid the price. Tips fell by 79%. In January, we changed that. Since then, more than $104 million has gone back into the pockets of the delivery workers who keep New York City fed.

Title: Deceptive design. 
A graphic meant to look like a color-blindness test obscures the number of”550”

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons on their apps. As a result, delivery workers saw reduced income of almost $550 million The tipping point. 

A graphic meant to look like a color-blindness test highlights the number of”104”

In January, we required billion dollar tech companies to make the tip feature visible. Since then, $104 million dollars have gone back into the pockets of workers who keep this city fed.

There's a balance to be struck between "If it's not broken, don't fix it" and "This is the way we've always done things". Either way, entropy and lack of innovation will get you!

Sleeping much better thanks to phosphatidylserine. It appears that it's able to bring my cortisol level down acutely so that I can get to sleep without having to resort to sedating medicines or supplements.

There's a certain schadenfreude that the person that mistreated you and misinterpreted the situation may have committed a legal, criminal, offence.

So good news is I retrieved my drone! bad news is that it was upside down in a river for 5 hours. Gently drying it with silica dessicant now. 😑

Having a disasterous day; drone was knocked out of the air into thick undergrowth near a stream. Initial GPS data was wrong so I spent an hour looking in the wrong place, and I'm hoping it's not actually in the stream.

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My robot lawnmower crawled back to it's base station and wondered what was wrong with it. Apparently a moth had decided to hitchhike on it, and cover it's lens. 😬