Provisional Logistics

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Society: All of the living communities in which human beings must participate during their lives. It is an assembly of people who work on others and are worked on by others in a sustainable manner. When a human being is born, he or she is already a member of a society called a family and eventually becomes a member of a local community. To live means to live in a society.

Power: The power to control and subjugate others to one's will. It is also the power to control people with the backing of physical coercion. A person who has or exercises this power is called an "authority figure.”

Political power: Power that is exercised in the context of political activity. This power is coercive, and it targets the people. Unlike violence, political power is essentially supported by the consent and approval of a majority of people.

State power: The systematic coercive power of the state. It can be expressed in the form of coercive power over the people, such as the right to govern, the right to police, and the right to collect taxes, as well as in the form of coercive power over foreign countries, such as the use of force and economic sanctions.

Max Weber (1864-1920): German sociologist and economist. In his book "The Sociology of Domination", he explained the legitimacy of domination by state power by classifying it into legal domination, traditional domination, and charismatic domination. In "The Ethics of Protestantism and the Spirit of Capitalism," he criticized Marx's assertion that religion is defined by the economy, and argued that the driving force that led to the development of capitalism was generated by religious ethics.

Coup d'État: Illegal use of force to gain or consolidate power within a political ruling class. French for "blow of state."

Revolution: A fundamental change in a political system by replacing the ruling power by force in a relatively short period of time.

Absolutism: A political system of tyrannical rule by an absolute monarch with powerful political power, backed by a strong standing army and bureaucracy, based on the divine right of kings. Also called "absolute monarchy," it was a political form that emerged during the transition period from feudalism to capitalism in Europe around the 16th to 18th centuries.

Tyranny: A form of government in which an individual, such as an absolute monarch, has absolute power and rules arbitrarily without restriction from others, such as the people. A concept that is opposed to the modern "constitutional politics."

Liberalism: A modern ideology that respects individual freedom and seeks to eliminate state regulation and interference. It became the basis for such ideas as the right to liberty and democracy in politics, and capitalism in economics. In contrast to classical liberalism, which emphasizes individual freedom and small government, modern liberalism is oriented toward social justice, respecting the freedom of the self as well as that of others.

Nationalism: An ideology that aims for national unity and national independence during the establishment of a modern state.

Aristotle (384-322 BCE): Ancient Greek philosopher. Learned from Plato and compiled various studies. He pointed out the social nature of human beings, compared political systems, and analyzed the concept of justice. His major works include "Politics" and "Metaphysics.

"Man is a social (polis, political) animal": Aristotle's words. It means that human beings by nature cannot live in isolation but live in a group (polis). A word that indicates that humans are social beings.

State: A system or organization that creates social order through power (state power) over people (citizens) living in a certain territory. The state is independent and free from foreign interference and control.

The three elements of a state: a certain territory (territory, territorial sea, and airspace), a people, and sovereignty. Jellinek, a German jurist, said that these three elements are necessary for an independent state.

Government: In a broad sense, it refers to the governing structure of a nation or local government that includes all the actions of the legislative, judicial, and administrative branches, but in Japan, it mainly refers to the cabinet and central government agencies in charge of administration.

Legislation: The act of governing a state by establishing codified legal norms. In a democracy, parliament is the highest legislative body.

Public administration: The function of government to carry out and fulfill the provisions of law. On the other hand, there is a reluctant definition that it is all the actions of politics except for legislative and judicial actions.

Judiciary: The action of the state to resolve disputes arising from social life by applying the law. Under the separation of powers, this role is played by the courts.

Nation: A group of people with a politically unifying organization within a certain territory, who form a nation and share common historical experiences and culture. It does not necessarily consist of only a single race or ethnic group, and is distinguished from "ethnic groups".

Sovereignty: The supreme power to govern the people within the realm of the state. Externally, it refers to the right to make independent policy decisions. It can also be used in the sense of "power" to determine the supreme will of the state, as in popular sovereignty and monarch sovereignty.

One of the most important things to understand about masochism and masochists is fear. That fear is both external and internal. There is the fear of being hurt by others and the fear of hurting others, which can be radicalized to the point of affecting sexual orientation. This fear is often correlated with helplessness, disappointment, and dysphoria, and is concurrent. It can be interpreted that masochists do not go to the hospital because they have a "disease" that prevents them from going to the hospital. In order to cure a disease, the person needs to try to cure the disease. Masochists are also characterized by their use of others for self-harm. They are much more selfish than sadists. They are socially hungry and troublesome, with a desire for self-destruction. Their contagious set of characteristics can be viewed as a virus. The tough times we face, regardless of our sexual orientation or ideology, prove that it is not just an imaginary threat. Perhaps the germ of that desire lies in a very insignificant and trivial opportunity. However, for those who are aware of a kind of suicidal mindset and self-loathing, the first thing they need to do is to improve their physical condition. Circadian rhythms, sleep quality, and nutrition should be reviewed to find one's personal optimum. Finally, keep in mind. What can be verbalized is refutable.

Prerequisite to know about >>358 and all previous statements: they're unscientific and I'm uneducated.

Many mathematicians in the field are drawn to the subject matter they are tasked with because they feel a certain aesthetic sense about it. We sometimes hear people say that philosophy should be left to philosophers and mathematicians should return to mathematics, perhaps because that is where the beauty of mathematics lies.

In his book The Golden Ratio, H. E. Huntley says that the desire to read and understand the proofs of mathematical theorems by others is like the desire to appreciate a masterpiece of art. The reader of a proof feels as exhilarated as the author when he or she can understand it as well as the original author who gave it. According to Huntley, this is similar to the way an appreciator of art feels the same exhilaration as the painter or sculptor who painted or sculpted the work. In fact, we can study mathematical and scientific works in the same way we study literature.

Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hirsch have noted that the sense of mathematical beauty is universal to mathematicians in the field. For example, there are two ways in which mathematicians prove that √2 is an impossible number. The first is the traditional method of proof initiated by Euclides (Euclid), which uses the backward method. The second method is a more direct proof related to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, but according to Davis and Hirsch, it is the one that gets to the heart of the matter. In other words, the second proof is closer to the essence of the problem than the first, and mathematicians find the latter more aesthetically interesting.

In Paul Erdesch's famous example, it is assumed that there is one "book" that contains the most elegant or most aesthetic mathematical proofs. As a result, there is disagreement as to whether there is a single "most elegant" proof. Gregory Chaitin disagrees with this idea.

Philosophers have repeatedly criticized mathematicians' sense of aesthetics and elegance, saying that it is apparently ambiguous. Nevertheless, philosophers of mathematics have likewise sought to find reasons why, if two proofs are both logically true, one can be said to be preferable to the other.

Another aspect of the aesthetics of mathematics is the mathematician's view of the possible use of mathematics for purposes that are considered unethical or disturbing. The most famous exposition of this view can be found in G. H. Hardy's book, A Mathematician's Apology. According to Hardy, pure mathematics is aesthetically superior to applied mathematics because it cannot be used for war or any other purpose.

Yup, structural analysis is required.

No, you're probably not going bald. Women can have thinning hair, but they don't go bald.

According to the share and ranking of suicide in Japan by cause of death to the total number of deaths in the Vital Statistics published by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in fiscal year 2017, the first was cancer at 27.9%, the second was heart disease at 15.3%, the third was cerebrovascular disease at 8.2%, the fourth was senility at 7.6%, the fifth was pneumonia at 7.2%, the sixth was accidental Accidents account for 3.0%, aspiration pneumonia 2.7%, renal failure 1.9%, suicide 1.5%, and vascular and other dementias 1.5%.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics for 2016, Japan's suicide rate per 100,000 population and ranking in descending order in the world is 18.5 for men and women combined, ranking 14th; 26.0 for men, ranking 17th; and 11.4 for women, ranking 8th. The OECD estimates that depression-related suicides cost Japan $2.54 billion in economic losses.
According to WHO, the leading cause of death among young people aged 10-19 worldwide in 2015 was road traffic accidents, followed by respiratory diseases due to air pollution and other causes, and suicide. It is the number one or number two cause of death in the region including Europe and South Asia.
According to the WHO's public information on Japan's suicide rate, the total suicide rate for men and women per 100,000 population by age group in 2016 and the world ranking in descending order is: 53rd with 4.8 for 10-19 year olds, 24th with 18.6 for 20-29 year olds, 24th with 18.6 for 30-39 year olds, and 21st with 20.7 for 40-49 year olds. The number of people aged 40-49 was 20.7, ranking 21st; the number of people aged 50-59 was 23.9, ranking 31st; the number of people aged 60-69 was 20.8, ranking 60th; the number of people aged 70-79 was 25.7, ranking 69th; and the number of people aged 80 and above was 27.8, ranking 94th.
The number of suicides in Japan has been rapidly decreasing since 2012, but if the WHO's statistics are limited to the G8 (Group of Eight) countries, Japan is ranked as a country with a high suicide rate, so the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and other government agencies are continuously taking measures to prevent suicide.
However, in 2020, the number of suicides began to increase again due to the COVID-19 calamity and other factors.

The Power of Video Game HUDs
With just eight months left before The Last of Us was finished, Naughty Dog finally got to work on the game’s user interface. “While some of the UI elements had already been roughed out,” explains designer Alexandria Neonakis, “an overall design of the heads up display had not been established, and many things were still undecided”. I think that’s testament to the fact that the user interface can be one of the most under-appreciated parts of game development. A nuisance after thought, thrown together at the last minute. But, if you ask me, it should not be undervalued, because the UI can have a tremendous impact on the way a game looks, works, and feels. And so in this episode of Game Maker’s Toolkit, I want to explore the intersection of UI and game design, to figure out how health bars and stamina meters can change the way we play. Now, UI encompasses a lot of different things. Like online lobbies, inventory screens, dialogue trees, crafting menus, store pages, and so on. But for this video, I want to focus on one specific type of UI: the heads-up display, or HUD. That’s the stuff that’s laid on top of the gameplay, while you’re in the middle of the action. And so the first question, I guess - is: that is the purpose of the HUD, and what benefit does it provide to the player? To help answer that question, let me break the HUD down into two distinct parts: which I’ll call gauges and previews. Gauges are the ones we usually imagine when we think about HUDs. These are about taking information that would normally be invisible, and surfacing it to the player. So, a character’s health is typically a number hidden in the game’s code - but a health bar can reveal this to the player. AI behaviour can be inscrutable without visual aids like view cones, movement ranges, and attack indicators. And because of camera limitations, critical info may be hidden off screen - unless it’s highlighted with indicators or a mini-map. Gauges are all about helping the player understand the current or future state of the game world - which allows them to make intentional plans and moves. Here’s a case study from the addictive deck builder Slay the Spire. Early in development, enemies would give you no indication of that they were planning to do. So players didn’t know whether to block or attack on each turn, and ended up playing pretty much randomly. To fix this, developer Mega Crit added these indicators which show you what the enemy will do next. Now the player can make smarter decisions about how to use their hand - and concoct satisfying synergistic strategies. So that’s gauges. Previews, on the other hand, are about showing you what will happen if you press a button or take an action. In their most simple form, it’s those pop-up button icons for contextual actions - you know, press Y button to open door, press X to get in vehicle, press E to jump in mass grave. What. Uh. But a preview could also be something like an arc that shows you the trajectory of your grenade throw. A indicator that shows you when you’re in range of a grapple point. A lock-on to show you which enemy you’re targeting. Or this like that shows you exactly where your unit will run in XCOM. Previews are all about giving the player a heads up about the consequences of the actions they might take, before they commit to them. This allows players to act with confidence, instead of blind faith. For this case study, let’s turn to Shovel Knight. In the third DLC campaign, Specter Knight has a dash slash move - which allows him to slice through certain objects and rocket out the other side. Initially, Yacht Club Games highlighted this interaction with a simple change in the character’s pose, but found that this didn’t adequately explain when or where this contextually sensitive action could happen - or where specter Knight would end up when it finished. In the end, the team slapped on a simple indicator which shows up when you get close to objects.

This clearly tells you that the dash slash will happen when you hit the relevant button - and shows you exactly where you’ll travel to when you press it. The reticule was “the most important change we made to make the Dash Slash understandable,” the developer says. So gauges and previews are very handy tools for giving players information - either about the current state of the game, or a glimpse into the near future. This allows players to interact with confidence and comfort - and make specific and meaningful plans. But here’s the thing - behind the curtain, games are tracking hundreds of variables and the UI could surface any number of them to the player. And you could show a preview of any action before it happens. So why don’t games show you all of this information? Well - just as there are benefits to revealing this info to the player, there are also advantages for holding some of it back. If you look into UX design - UX being the experiential and psychological backbone that guides UI - you’ll come across the term “cognitive load”. This is about how the human brain can only juggle so much information in working memory. And so the more junk shove on the screen, the more taxing the game is to parse. Eye-tracking tech can show just how much our eyes must dart around the screen to keep all of this information in mind. Therefore, cutting back on UI - by ditching stuff that’s extraneous or repeated or just window dressing - can reduce cognitive load. But - it’s not just about getting rid of things. And, in fact, UI can sometimes help with cognitive load. If you had to remember how many bullets you’ve fired, well in all the excitement you might lose track of whether you fired six shots or only five. An ammo counter is more efficient in this case. So, instead, it’s about being clever with the layout to ensure that the information that is on screen is relevant and easy to digest. One way to achieve this is to think about visual hierarchy. This is when we use techniques like font weight, colour, scale, position, and motion to make some elements stand out more than others. If everything on screen is screaming at you with the same intensity, it’s hard to know what to focus on. And if nothing is given prominence, critical information can go unnoticed. Consider, for instance, the trespassing pop-up in Hitman. This is a vitally useful alert but in Hitman 2016, you might not even see it - it’s just a simple label that appears under the mini-map in the corner of the screen. So it’s much improved in Hitman 2, where the label is yellow, and it flashes across the map to grab your attention. It’s even better in Hitman 3, where this state change is backed up by an obvious sound cue. *Audio flare* To help think about visual hierarchy, designer Zach Gage talks about the principle of “The Three Reads” - which is three levels if visual information, ranked from most important to least. So, Zach explains this with one of his own games: SpellTower. The first read will be the main game elements - the letters you use to spell out words. The second read will show big, critical rules that are vital to gameplay like columns that are getting close to ending your game and blue bonus letters that will clear an entire line. And the third read will show smaller, less important stuff like small contextual rules, such as these tiles that can only be used in longer words. Developers can rank information in order of importance, and then use design to ensure the most relevant stuff sticks out. And because games are dynamic, it’s possible for information to move between the different reads at different times. Zach points to Hearthstone as a “constant wave of things being brought to your attention in the first read, and then fading back into the second or third reads”. Another way to reduce cognitive load is to ask the question: do all of these UI elements need to be shown all the time? Like, back in Castlevania 1 you could see the boss’s health bar throughout the entire level, for some reason.

Nowadays, that just shows up when you start the fight. But the principle can extend to pretty much any UI element. In Ghost of Tsushima, you’ll only see your health bar when you unsheathe your sword because it’s only relevant to combat - and not general exploration of the island. Okay, So, another reason for ditching the HUD - and this one is becoming more popular all the time - is in term of presentation. A desire to make games look more cinematic and immersive, and to not mess up those lovely 3d visuals with boring 2D assets. Though, anyone who thinks UI has to look boring has obviously never played Persona 5. ♫Music from Persona 5♫ Now, this is not about simply deleting all of the HUD. This is not something that should be done at the expense of readability or comprehension. Instead, it’s about being clever with how this information is presented. So, like before, developers can hide information and only show it when strictly necessary. But another solution is to make HUD elements diegetic. This is when the UI actually exist, physically, in the world of the game. The most popular take on this is, of course, Dead Space. To try and increase this survival horror game’s immersive qualities, Visceral Games removed the HUD and put the same information inside the game world itself. So Isaac’s health bar and stasis meter are built in to the pipes and gauges on his suit. Each weapon’s ammo count is shown on the gun itself. Even things like the inventory are styled as holographic projections in the world. We can see effective examples of this in other games too - in Metroid Prime, the HUD works exactly like every other shooter but by putting it on Samus’s helmet visor, and by making it realistically jiggle and steam up, it increases your sense of presence and your connection to the character. But it’s not just about style and presentation. Making this information diegetic can lead to interesting gameplay consequences. In Alien Isolation, you can hold up a gizmo to see a motion tracking read-out. It’s similar to the mini-map in a game like Call of Duty, but because it’s a physical tool - it means you have to choose whether you want access to this information, or whether you want to hold a weapon. You can’t have both. Now a diegetic HUD doesn’t just have no mean normal health bars and ammo counters, but rendered in the game world in a clever way. Because if you take the idea even further, you can use elements that we wouldn’t usually think of as UI to express this same information. Like, you don’t really need a health bar in Wreckfest to know how close your car is to being written off - you can see it on the car itself. And do you really need an indicator to tell you if Link is too hot or too cold in Breath of the Wild? We can trace this back to Super Mario Bros., where Mario’s health is represented through the size of his sprite. Okay, so one other reason to hold back the HUD is to intentionally make the game less readable. In The Last of Us Part II, the first human enemies you encounter will verbally call out their intentions and plans, giving you an idea of what the enemy is thinking and allowing you to plan around them. But later, you encounter a new faction of enemies who converse exclusively in harsh, high-pitch whistles. *Whistle* *Arrow impact* *Ellie yells* These whistles are intentionally designed to be impossible for the player to parse. And so I found these foes to be significantly more intimidating and difficult to fight - in large part, because of a lack of that information. Going further, the amount of information we have as a player will completely change our behaviour. The developers of reigns came to this realisation while making their Tinder-inspired management game. Originally, the game showed exact numbers for all your stats, and how your choices would impact them. But in testing, players focused almost exclusively on trying to optimise these numbers - and ignored most of the text.

After changing the UI to vague bars, players went back to reading the story, and acting on more of an emotional level - rather than an analytical one. I think this proves that developers don’t necessarily need to remove the HUD entirely, but should at least consider the precision of the HUD. Do you want the health bar to be an exact number, a meter, or just a vague red splodge in the centre of the screen? It really depends what the player’s going to do with this information - is it for calculation exact differences, or is it just a warning to hang back and find cover? Now when it comes to those preview HUD elements I talked about... well, the further into the future, and more precise that information is, the more specific plans you can make. Like in Mark of the Ninja, where it shows you exactly what will happen when you throw a knife into this lamp. But if you reduce the future-ness of that information, or make it fuzzy and imprecise, it forces the player to learn and internalise how the game’s mechanics work. Consider Peggle for a moment. By default, the shot indicator shows you where your ball will go... up until its first hit. So it’s on you to mentally calculate the ricocheting trajectory after that. That’s part of the leaning curve. I mean, there is a way to push that preview further into the future - but that’s a power-up, which just goes to show how powerful this information can be. Also, did you know that there’s a patent for Peggle’s gameplay? Because, I guess that’s a theme for the channel, now. Because UI is so powerful, then, it can be tied to things like difficulty or assist modes. Consider how racing games often show an optimum racing line on easy mode, but ask you to fend for yourself at higher difficulties. UI can be used to change a game’s difficulty between modes, or over the course of the adventure - just like any other gameplay element. So I think this all goes to show that UI can have a really powerful effect on a game. And if used effectively, UI can support and advance the goals of game design. But... what about the other way around? Not game design influencing UI, but UI influencing game design. For a final case study, let’s look at the deterministic tactics gem Into the Breach. This game shows you what every enemy is about to do, at the same time, on a small and claustrophobic grid. The result is a complex web of arrows and icons that give you a complete picture of what the enemy’s army is planning. But developer Subset Games discovered that for this system to work, certain enemies and weapons had to be removed from the game - simply because they were too hard to show. Things like weapons with a long chain of cause and effect, or enemy attacks that would impact a large area. Co-designer Justin Ma says “just as a game design principle, we would sacrifice cool ideas for the sake of clarity every time”. And this isn’t the only game where this happened. In Hearthstone, the reason why you can only have seven minions in play at once, is because that’s how many fit on the screen. And certain hero powers were changed because they were too complex to show through UI elements. Ultimately, if something can’t be made clear to the player then maybe it’s not a good game mechanic and should be simplified. UI isn’t a band-aid to fix broken game mechanics - and this is why it’s important to design the HUD in tandem with everything else - and not throw it together at the end. Because just like everything else in game development, UI isn’t something to be done arbitrarily, or “because that’s how other games do it”. It should be done with clear thought and intention. Let me know which games you think have awesome UI in the comments down below. It’s indie game recommendation time! This is Room to Grow - a grid-driven puzzler about a cactus that can grow in order to shunt plants into the goal. It quickly gets more complex as you push against the wall to move your entire spiky body. And then more mechanics get thrown on top of that. 　 　　　　　　　　　　　

It’s a thoughtfully made little game with lots of charm and some devious meta-level challenges. It’s out now on Steam.

Well, it seems that people who are incompetent as members of society are competent as human beings...?

Oath.
We, the undersigned, do solemnly swear that we want to eat a giant corn.

I want a giant corn! (Loudly)


In this early spring season when the floorboards are cold, I hope that all the users of the Casfy shelter are doing well. We, the executive officers of General Home Security, are all working hard and loving Lori with all our hearts. Now, our Macintosh-type ultra-high-powered attribute-release computer has been malfunctioning for about five years for unknown reasons (most believe it is due to aging and mishandling). For those of us for whom the Internet is one of our identities, this is a dubious situation, and now that we have the Aiphone, it is no different. So we made the wise decision to set up an escape from reality committee and pass a plan to ignore the PC and play with the phone when it freezes. Now that I've been prevented from watching the documentary and forced to watch the Rekishi Ou equipment collection, I'll be thinking about pork miso soup and chicken kuwa-yaki as I remove the pieces of bread from my teeth.

A developmental disability is a condition in which a child is born with behavioral and emotional characteristics due to differences in the way the brain works. As a result, caregivers may have trouble raising their children and the children may find it difficult to live.
Even if a child has a developmental disability, it is possible to make it easier for the child to make use of his or her abilities and reduce difficulties in daily life by devising ways to spend time in daily life, at school, and at work that are appropriate for the child, his or her family, and the people around him or her.

What is "developmental disability"?
It's a trait you are born with.

Developmental disabilities include autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities (learning disorder), tics, and stuttering.
These share a commonality in that they are born with differences in the way the brain works. They may have the same name but show different characteristics, or they may have several developmental disorders together.

According to DeepL, Yes in Italian is contatore per navi, polpi e calamari.

Per quelli di noi che, da bambini, si sono rotti le dita per contare, hanno lottato per memorizzare una tabella di moltiplicazione e ripetuto esercizi monotoni per essere finalmente in grado di calcolare, il calcolo sembra essere un compito altamente intellettuale. Il fatto che possa essere fatto da una macchina senza intelligenza è una meraviglia se ci si pensa. Pertanto, in questa sezione, spiegherò come le macchine possono fare calcoli. Lo schema è il seguente. In primo luogo, confermeremo che le operazioni logiche possono essere realizzate con un semplice meccanismo di dispositivi di commutazione. Poi, si mostrerà che l'addizione binaria può essere costruita combinando le operazioni logiche. Poi, sarà mostrato che anche la sottrazione, la moltiplicazione e la divisione possono essere eseguite usando queste operazioni.

When we feel "difficult," we are confronted with an acceptable level of difficulty.
When the difficulty is outside of the acceptable range, we feel that we don't know what it means or we avoid considering it as obvious.
Therefore, all the "hard problems" are theoretically solvable, but because they are compounded, there are a lot of unsolved problems in reality.

The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
What is the largest star in the universe and why is it that large? And what are stars anyway?

Things That Would Like To be Stars
We begin our journey with Earth. Not to learn anything, just to get a vague sense of scale. The smallest things that have some star-like properties are large gas giants, or sub-brown dwarfs. Like Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system. Eleven times larger and 317 times more massive than Earth, and more or less, made of the same stuff as our Sun. Just much, much less of it. The transition towards stars begins with brown dwarfs, failed stars, that are a huge disappointment to their moms. They have between 13 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter. So even if we took 90 Jupiters and threw them at each other, although fun to watch, it wouldn’t be enough to create a star. Interestingly, adding lots of mass to a brown dwarf doesn’t make it much bigger, just its insides denser. This increases the pressure in the core enough to make certain nuclear fusion reactions happen slowly, and the object glow a little. So brown dwarfs are a sort of gloomy gas giant, that don’t fit into any category very well. But we want to talk about stars, not failed wannabe star, so let’s move on.

Main Sequence Stars
Once large gas balls pass a certain mass threshold, their cores become hot and dense enough to ignite. Hydrogen is fused to helium in their cores, releasing tremendous amounts of energy. Stars that do that are called main sequence stars. The more massive a main sequence star is, the hotter and brighter it burns, and the shorter its life is. Once the hydrogen-burning phase is over, star grow up to hundreds of thousands of times their original size. But these giant phases only last for a fraction of their lifespan. So we’ll be comparing stars at drastically different stages in their lives. This doesn’t make them less impressive, but maybe it’s good to keep in mind that we’ll be comparing babies to adults. Now back to the beginning, the smallest real stars are red dwarfs. About 100 times the mass of Jupiter; barely massive enough to fuse hydrogen to helium. Because they are not very massive they are small, not very hot, and shine pretty dimly. They are the only stars in the main sequence that don’t grow once they die but sort of fizzle out. Red dwarfs are by far the most abundant type in the universe, because they burn their fuel so slowly, it lasts them up to ten trillion years - a thousand times the current age of the universe. For example, one of the closest stars to Earth is a red dwarf star, Barnard’s Star, but it shines too dimly to be seen without a telescope. We made a whole video on red dwarfs if you want to learn more. The next stage are stars like our Sun. To say the Sun dominates the solar system is not doing it justice since it makes up 99.86% of all its mass. It burns far hotter and brighter than red dwarfs, which reduces its lifetime to about 10 billion years. The Sun is 7 times more massive than Barnard’s Star, but that makes it nearly 300 times brighter with twice its surface temperature. Let’s go bigger! Small changes in mass produce enormous in a main sequence star’s brightness. The brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, is 2 solar masses with a radius 1.7 times that of the Sun, but its surface is nearly 10,000℃, making it shine 25 times brighter. Burning THAT hot reduces its total lifespan by 4 times to 2.5 billion years. Stars close to 10 times the mass of our sun have surface temperatures near 25,000℃. Beta Centauri contains two of these massive stars, each shining with about 20,000 times the power of the Sun. That’s a lot of power coming from something only 13 times larger, but they’ll only burn for about 20 million years. Entire generations of the blue stars die in the time it takes for the Sun to orbit the galaxy once. So is this the formula? The more massive, the larger the star. The most massive star that we know is R136a1. It has 315 solar masses and is nearly 9 million times brighter than the Sun. And yet, despite its tremendous mass and power, it’s barely 30 times the size of the Sun! The star is so extreme and barely held together by gravity that is loses 321 thousand billion tons of material through its stellar wind every single second. Stars of this sort are extremely rare because they break the rules of star formation a tiny bit. When supermassive stars are born they burn extremely hot and bright and this brows away any extra gas that could make them more massive. So the mass limit for such a star is around 150 times the Sun. Stars like R136a1 are probably formed through the merger of several high mass stars in dense star-forming regions and burn their core hydrogen in only a few million years. So this means they are rare and short lived. From here the trick to going bigger isn’t adding more mass. To make the biggest stars we have to kill them.

Red Giants
When main sequence stars begin to exhaust the hydrogen in their core it contracts making it hotter and denser. This leads to hotter and faster fusion which pushes back against gravity and makes the outer layers swell in a giant phase. And these stars become truly giant indeed. For example, Gacrux. Only 30% more massive than the Sun, it has swollen to about 84 times its radius. Still, when the Sun enters the last stage of its life, it will swell and become even bigger; 200 times its current radius! In this final phase of its life it will swallow the inner planets. And if you think THAT’S impressive let’s finally introduce the largest stars in the universe:

Hypergiants
Hypergiants are the giant phase of the most massive stars in the universe. They have an enormous surface area that can radiate an insane amount of light. Being so large they’re basically blowing themselves apart as gravity at the surface at the surface is too weak to hold on to the hot mass which is lifted away in powerful stellar winds. Pistol Star is 25 solar masses but 300 times the radius of the sun; a blue hyper giant aptly named for its energetic blue starlight. It’s hard to say exactly how long Pistol Star will live but probably just a few million years. Even larger than the blue hypergiants are the yellow hypergiants. The most well studied is Rho Cassiopeiae; a star so bright it can be seen with the naked eye although it’s thousands of lightyears from Earth. At 40 solar masses, this star is around 500 times the radius of the Sun, and 500,000 times brighter. If the Earth were as close to Rho Cassiopeiae as it is to the Sun it’d be inside it and you would be very dead. Yellow hypergiants are very rare though. Only 15 are known. This means they’re likely just a short-lived intermediate state as a star grows or shrinks between other phases of hypergiantness. With red hypergiants we reach the largest stars known to us. Probably the largest stars even possible! So who’s the winner of this insane contest? Well the truth is we don’t know. Red hypergiants are extremely bright and far away which means the even tiny uncertainties in our measurements can give us a huge margin of error for their size. Worse still are solar system sized behemoths that are blowing themselves apart which makes them harder to measure. As we do more science and our instruments improve whatever the largest star is will change. The star that is currently thought to be among the largest we’ve found is Stephenson 2-18. It was probably as a main sequence star a few tens of times the mass of the sun and has likely lost about half its mass by now. While typical red hypergiants are 1500 times the size of the Sun, the largest rough estimate places Stephenson 2-18 at 2150 solar radii, and shining with almost half million times the power of the Sun! By comparison the Sun seems like a grain of dust. Our brains don’t really have a way of grasping this kind of scale. Even at light speed it would take you 8.7 hours to travel around it once. The fastest plane on Earth would take around 500 years! Dropped on the Sun it would fill Saturn’s orbit! As it evolves it would probably shed even more mass and shrink down into another hotter hypergiant phase, accumulate heavy elements in its core, before finally exploding in a core collapse supernova, giving its gas back to the galaxy. This gas will then go on to form another generation of stars of all sizes. Starting the cycle of birth and death again to light up our universe. Let’s make this journey again but this time without the taking.

The universe is BIG. There are many large things in it. If you want to play a bit more with size stuff we have good news! We’ve create our first app, Universe In A Nutshell, together with Tim Urban, the brain behind Wain But Why. You can seamlessly travel from the smallest things in existence, past the coronavirus, human cells and dinosaurs, all the way to the largest stars and galaxies, and marvel at the whole observable universe! You can learn more about each object, or simply enjoy the sheer scale of it all. The app is inspired by the Scale Of The Universe website by the Huang twins, that we spent a lot of time with when it came out years ago, and felt that it was finally time to create a Wait But Why and Kurzgesagt version. You can get it in your app store, there are no in-app purchases, and no ads. All future updates are included. And since this is our first app we’d love to hear your feedback so we can improve it over time. If this sounds good to you download the Universe In A Nutshell app now and leave us a 5-star review if you want to support it. Kurzgesagt and all the projects we do are mostly funded by viewers like you! So if you like the app we’ll make more digital things in future. Thank you for watching!

Cool Authority and Cute Freedom

God is the authoritative paraphrase and objectification of the unknown.

From the perspective of the ultimate achievement principle, all present humans are worthless.

The phrase "don't say it, don't say it" is a corruption of "don't say it, don't say it, don't say it. The phrase "I told you so" is an emphatic double negation of "I told you so," which in essence means, "I told you so. When someone ignores your advice and makes a mistake, you say, "Look at that, that's what I said," probably with a feeling of "Suck it up. However, the "advice" given in advance by the person who says such a thing is often a light-hearted word that comes out of his mouth, such as "You should be careful here. If you are a serious person, don't get too depressed if you hear someone say, "I told you so," in a pompous manner.

If you want to have a clear concept of an object, think carefully about what effects that object is supposed to have, and what effects you think it might have on your behavior. Then your conception of these effects will be consistent with your conception of the object.

Got it, i.e., is what seems at first glance to be a backward compatibility a kind of sacrifice of a higher-order hard magnetic material?

Almost everything is useless except for favorite thing.

>>384 Shut your stinky mouth.

Becoming hermaphroditic would solve the problem...?

Japanese leek (Allium chinense)

I would like to think about whether or not I should weaponize both Nergigantes. However, to be honest, I don't think we can come to a definitive conclusion. I don't think I'll ever be able to come to a definitive conclusion, because I can't predict when and to what extent the demand for skib weapons will increase. I have two Nergigantes at the moment, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to use them in randans (skive weapons will definitely be needed in some randans). The reason is that with the time limit, you will inevitably fall short of one skive and not be able to activate your skills on the floor you need. In the attack, well, first of all, I don't need it. If you don't have the skills, you can just accumulate them. There are almost no serious dungeons where you need to supplement your skivvies with weapons to live or die. At least not until now. There are few dungeons where you can't go around without skive weapons, although you may need them to build the perfect, theoretically fastest party for going around. If there were, I wouldn't be going around them.

Die Erfahrungen von Frauen im Prozess des Eintritts in die Gesellschaft bieten uns die Möglichkeit, über die Schwierigkeiten nachzudenken, die mit der Verallgemeinerung der Homöostase verbunden sind.

Ich bin es nicht gewohnt, zu pauken... und ich weiß, dass die heutige Klassenansage eine Katastrophe sein wird.

Wenn Sie einmal eine Pause machen, wollen Sie nie wieder leben. Ich kann es nicht tun...

Parents rush their children because they are impatient.

The view of the linguistic catalog of names is that there is existence first, and then the names of things, so to speak, words, are established and exist as if labels are attached to each of these existences. Since the advent of Saussure's theory of language (human perception of the world is based on "words"), this idea has been rejected.

There are two things I'm not good at, but don't hate: socializing and math.

Intentionally Generated Arbitrariness—We Love It.

A masterpiece that painstakingly depicts the process by which sexual desire destroys reason.

1: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:11:21.23ID:jiRsIc2n0
Take gingerbread with pork as an example.
[Self-cooking] Total: 1080 yen
Pork 300 yen
Onion 50 yen
Ginger 130 yen
Rice 30 yen
Other seasonings 50 yen
Utility fee 20 yen
Labor charge (30 minutes, 1000 yen per hour) 500 yen

[Not self-cooking] Total: 540 yen
Bento 420 yen
Salad 120 yen

2: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:11:27.24ID:jiRsIc2n0
This is the reality...

3: What J-God sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:11:31.14ID:jiRsIc2n0
And I have half-price lunches, and I buy salads...

4: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:11:43.04ID:lgZ6A6VV0
It's too expensive.

5: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:11:54.15ID:hDQsjIlx0
Hobby.

6: I'll send you some J-gods.
What is the best place to eat out?

7: I'll send you some. 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:06.54ID:72+dfx280
Don't buy a 420 yen lunch box.

8:What a J-God sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:09.92ID:1ZLelcUp0
Make two portions and freeze them.

9:What the J-God sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:17.67ID:mYy+bjX/0
It's even cheaper at Sukiya.

10: What the J-God sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:20.84ID:BAScX4Eta
No, you're not going to use up everything at once.

11: NANJIGOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:27.27ID:fyT/7QUG0
A lot of ginger

12: This is sent by Nanjgod 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:32.24ID:W5yVHmZl0
How many people is that...

13: What JGod sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:38.96ID:vYsBw/xZ0
What if I can make it in three minutes?

14: What a J-God sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:50.98ID:AMurvYhI0
Oooohhhh!

15: What JGod sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:12:54.49ID:+QUPN4vV0
Don't count on the hassle.

16: What J-God sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:01.97ID:TsiaCF4T0
I'm going to make egg rice.

17: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:06.38ID:O2GBgP1P0
Ginger is too expensive.

18: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:13.65ID:qB3BpJLZ0
What is it?

19: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:24.97ID:leDp0oYBM
What is the point of an hourly rate?

20: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:25.76ID:CyEBYGRq0
Onions are cheap and grass

21: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:27.36ID:J3Ge0cuga
What about the cost of going to the store to buy it?

22: What JGod sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:27.96ID:ApIJSgVpa
It looks like it only tastes like ginger.

23: NANJIGOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:35.42ID:gTfpUgrnM
I'm not sure if you can find a lunch box that uses 260 grams of pork for 420 yen.

229：Nanjugod sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:30:53.63ID:GRlJ4Srx0
>>23
The reason why it's so expensive is because you can eat that much in one sitting.

24: What J-God sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:39.34ID:ooVeV78B0
Well, if you also consider time, it's not very cosmopolitan.

25:What JGod sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:51.11ID:41J6fEmZ0
Your half hour isn't worth a thousand yen.

29: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:14:06.56ID:ScF0t3SQ0
>>25
Gaiji

26: NANJ-GOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:54.08ID:J9SCMemR0
How much ginger do you use?

27: NANJIGOD sends you 2021/02/10(Wed) 16:13:55.61ID:z8IY+fR40
It's not fair to put in time.

Back when I was around 14. Puberty was doing some high kicks and I suddenly became more aware of girls than ever before. All of a sudden I’m thinking things like the girls around me are very pretty and I like them and I don’t know what to do about it. So my response to this was to become very afraid of girls. I would get awkward speaking to them and I would start sweating if I sat next to one. But I thought I could hide it pretty well, or at least I thought so until a friend asked me Hey, are you angry at Johanna? She told me you sit really far away from our during homeroom, and she thought maybe she had done something wrong. And that’s how I found out I’m not very subtle. One night during a LAN party (Which was the big craze back in the 2000s) I some how started talking to a friend of a friend an actual real-life girl. Except online. Through MSN Messenger. And we just happened to have a lot to talk about. I stayed up all night the entire LAN party just talking to this girl. And we ended up talking a lot. I can’t remember what we talked about, but maybe it was about anime. I don’t know, but we became online friends. And one day she messages me. I’m coming to your school tomorrow. And I reply “haha, you’re joking right?” No, I’m coming to your school tomorrow. And I think… that’s a weird thing to say. But whatever that’s not happening. So the next day I’m at school heading for lunch and I walk outside the building and I see her and she’s standing there and I’m standing there and we’re looking at each other and I just bolt. I cover up my face and I started and I start running away straight past her because you know. She definitely won’t recognize me then. And I just run to the school lunch building and that’s when the shame starts to settle in. I don’t know what to do now because I just made a complete fool of myself. My only option is to have lunch or go back I guess. So I go back and she’s still standing there. And she gives me a hug. And it’s kind of fine. She was a bit hurt, but we sit down to talk and I skip the class to make up for it. I will say though in my defense. I didn’t expect this. I never gave out any personal information, or what school I go to, but despite that extreme initial, awkwardness, somehow everything worked out fine. Some week later or so. I’m sitting at home and my dad comes into my room and says “Uhm, Mattias there’s a girl here asking for you” And I’m thinking… I guess my parents are up to something because that’s not real. But I go to the door and she is there. So, okay. I invite her in because that’s the polite thing to do. And I’m not sure what to do now. I never expected this so we just sit and talk and watch TV and it wasn’t that great. But in my defense… I never told her where I live. During summer break, she invited me out to a cafe and that was pretty nerve-wrecking because now I had to make the effort to meet her. I tried to get out of it by saying “I’m sorry I don’t know if I can go because it’s just so hot today and I’ll sweat too much” and she wasn’t having it, she was like, “okay, what? Just get a deodorant” We went to a cafe and talked and I can’t actually remember much of what happened. So I guess it was fine, except I remember one thing. I found out cafes are very expensive. After that, meeting her was fine.

We hung out. We went to see movies. One time we went to Liseberg, the theme park here in Gothenburg. And she insisted the entire time that we go on a free fall ride called “Höjdskräcken” which literally translates to “the fear of heights”. And I thought, “you know what? This is actually my time to shine.” “I can finally show her what a badass I am.” So we get on it and it’s going higher and higher and I’m slowly beginning to realize just how much of mistake this is. I can see the entirety of my city from a perspective I have never seen before. And then there’s just a second where you are without gravity and you fall down, and I let out a high-pitched scream. And gravity is pushing my head down and my left shoe is almost falling off, and I just closed my eyes for a rest of ride. We get off, I’m disheveled and she’s like, so do you want to do that again? Eventually the time came where we had done a lot of things together and she admitted that all this had not been for nothing. She confessed that she actually liked me and I wasn’t sure how to feel about that yet so I didn’t do anything. And then it stopped. It’s raining now. So this is a weird story that I don’t often tell firstly because it’s very cringy and secondly because it feels like a bad story for an anime. You have a weird loser protagonist who has no reason to be the main character and you have the Manic Pixie dream girl who shows up to solve all of his problems. And it was really helpful. I had someone pushing me to confront my social anxiety and I came out of that not being afraid of girls anymore. I had someone pushing me and helping me but then when it came to a relationship I couldn’t do it. I think that whether you’re in a friendly or a romantic relationship you can’t have one person whose role is to push and help the other person. That’s a bad relationship. It wears you down to have to be someone else’s support. And a good relationship is when two people are able to support each other. I had a very anime moment in my life, but in the final moment when everything was supposed to magically come together, instead, reality settled in. In the end things didn’t come together and instead there was a final lesson to learn. That someone can help you the entire way, but that person can’t make you stand up for yourself. I don’t necessarily think the end point should have been that I ended up with a relationship. But rather I could not say no and I could not say yes. It was a final lesson where I could look back at all of this and all I learned and all the things that came out of this and I could finally say Thank God life is not anime.

Know your enemy before you fight.

In other words, you should find a material for assisting the arousal during masturbation before you start masturbating.

After saying goodbye to various cameras, I bought a Moment Lens to enjoy photography with my smartphone from now on. (More on this later).

Even though I use the Moment Lens, the quality of the photos on the phone itself is still important. I've used the Pixel several times before, and I've been eyeing the Pixel 4a for a while, but after repeated delays, I couldn't resist buying the iPhone SE. The iPhone SE is a great phone, but the photos on the iPhone SE are not as impressive as the photos on the Pixel series, so I bought a new one when the Pixel 4a was released.

I have always been an Apple devotee and have been using the latest iPhones from iPhone 3GS to iPhone 7, replacing them almost every year. However, I have to admit that I have not been thrilled with the design and new features of the iPhone since the iPhone 6, and I have not used the iPhone X or later. (I bought a used iPhone XR and tried it, but sold it soon after.) It was then that I came across the Pixel 3. It was the first Pixel to be released in Japan, and it was such a good device that many people in the gadget world switched from the iPhone to it. They all said that even though it was a monocular device, the quality of the photos was amazing thanks to the AI correction.

I had used a Galaxy phone once before, but it was so stressful that I had to buy my own iPhone and switch the SIM to use it. I was so anti-Android that I had to buy my own iPhone to replace the SIM. Even I could use the Pixel 3 without any stress, and it was nothing but a thrill for me as I was completely bored with iOS. (My love for Nana Komatsu is also a big part of my excitement.)

The Pixel 4a has just been released and I'm really in love with it. The disadvantages of the Pixel 4a are that it is not waterproof, it does not have wireless charging, it does not come in a variety of colors, and there are not many case options. I think that's about it. To be honest, I'd be happy with waterproofing, but I don't think there's much risk of submerging it in water. To be honest, I don't feel the other disadvantages as disadvantages.

Without further ado, let's take a look at my Pixel 4a.

For as long as I can remember, a motion of no confidence in the cabinet against the ruling party, the ego, has been submitted in the Diet of my brain, my highest decision-making body.

Polar colors include achromatic colors.

Good morning!

Actually I don't feel very good mainly because this fucking annoying red thread of fate brought to me by the devil, so I'm going to eliminate it.

It's nonsense to compare free and paid services, but the difference in usability between NicoBox and Spotify is like the difference in height between Challenger Deep and the top of Everest.

We have different personalities every day.
Wir haben jeden Tag andere Persönlichkeiten.
Nous avons des personnalités différentes chaque jour.

Sans m'en rendre compte, je parle peut-être pour le caractère de cet endroit!

Le dénominateur commun d'une école ou de toute institution ou installation éducative est-il "un espace fermé ouvert à tous"?

La théorie selon laquelle même si vous êtes extrêmement populaire, vous ne serez jamais heureux si vous n'avez pas la capacité de l'accepter.

Oh, vraiment ?

>>415 Si vous répétez l'erreur, la tragédie dans votre vie sera encore plus difficile à supporter. Cela peut sembler être une sorte de malédiction, mais il s'agit en fait d'un avertissement autoréférentiel.

Avec l'accélération de la mécanisation et de l'automatisation du travail dans la société moderne et l'externalisation du travail improductif conventionnel du système de travail centré sur l'homme, la charge physique des personnes a été réduite.
En conséquence, toutefois, la main-d'œuvre s'est transformée en une station de relais pour le monde extérieur, et le multitâche et le travail cérébral banal ont rapidement augmenté, ce qui a entraîné une multiplication des situations dans lesquelles le cerveau est surmené, et la fatigue mentale chronique est devenue un problème social.
Contrairement à la fatigue physique, la fatigue mentale est souvent méconnue dans ses premiers stades.
En outre, le repos physique est souvent considéré comme une solution à la fatigue mentale, mais cette méthode ne semble résoudre le problème qu'en surface, mais ne le résout pas en substance.
Pour résoudre la fatigue mentale de manière radicale, il est nécessaire de disposer d'une solution adaptée à la fatigue mentale.
En d'autres termes, il est nécessaire d'évacuer suffisamment le stress et de trouver un lieu de repos pour soi.
Lorsque vous trouverez un tel lieu de repos, vous direz naturellement: "Oh, mon coeur est si heureux!

Lorsque l'être humain se sent bien, le cerveau sécrète une hormone appelée ocytocine.
Cette ocytocine a pour fonction d'atténuer la fatigue du cerveau.
L'ocytocine sécrétée stimule le nerf sérotonine et la sérotonine est sécrétée.
Cette sérotonine est une substance qui a pour effet d'atténuer les tensions, de calmer l'humeur et de procurer de la joie. Elle est contenue dans le corps environ 1,5 fois plus chez les hommes que chez les femmes.
Les effets de l'ocytocine et de la sérotonine soulagent la fatigue mentale et apportent la paix de l'esprit et la guérison aux humains.
La phrase "Oh, mon cœur bat la chamade !" peut être l'expression du moment où les hormones du plaisir telles que l'ocytocine et la sérotonine sont sécrétées.

La fréquence vibratoire de l'énergie est augmentée et, avec le flux d'énergie, la guérison se produit.
Les êtres de guérison ont également une fréquence énergétique plus élevée, et lorsque cette énergie entre en contact avec une énergie de fréquence plus basse, l'énergie entre en résonance et la fréquence s'élève.
L'augmentation de la fréquence de l'énergie entraîne une libération fluide de l'énergie.
En nettoyant l'énergie indésirable, la peur, la douleur et les traumatismes disparaissent temporairement, et la fierté et la confiance surgissent dans la conscience de l'ego.
De là, nous déduisons que nous sommes dignes, uniques et complets.
“Ah^~ Mon cœur gambade^~" est peut-être un mot qui exprime une scène où l'on entre en contact avec une énergie d'une fréquence vibratoire aussi élevée.
Dans le monde physique, les réfugiés de Gochiusa, qui ont acquis une énergie de haute qualité dans leur corps, peuvent, selon les conditions, ouvrir leur troisième œil et faire résonner leur âme (ψυχή, psuche) avec la musique jouée par la nature (φύσις, pusis) et les esprits du monde (Δημιουργός, demiourgos) dans le monde spirituel.
Comme la musique secoue l'atmosphère, elle secoue les âmes des réfugiés de Gochiusa avec un certain rythme et une certaine fréquence, de sorte que leurs âmes intègrent l'existence de Dieu.
Là, il se rend compte que "dans le monde primordial, j'étais une étoile, mais maintenant je suis tombé dans la grande chaîne de l'existence et je suis devenu un porc moe.
"Ah^~ Mon cœur gambade^~" peut être la capacité de regarder la vérité du monde, c'est-à-dire d'ouvrir le troisième œil, c'est-à-dire de dire, si je renais de mon moi actuel, je renaîtrai comme mon moi antérieur, c'est-à-dire comme une étoile elle-même, et je serai proche de Dieu dans l'endroit le plus proche.

To draw is to visualize ideas, but also to decide which ideas not to draw.

Le Pixel 4a est un moyen abordable de migrer du monde Apple dans lequel je vis depuis six ans et demi vers le monde Android. L'iPhone SE est également un moyen abordable, mais pour prolonger mon abonnement à l'écosystème Apple. L'iPhone 12 mini est le successeur légitime de l'iPhone SE de 1ère génération, sauf pour le prix. Et me voilà à attendre des nouvelles du Pixel 5a ou de l'iPhone 13 et à me forcer à vivre sans mon téléphone portable.

- Hello, and welcome to “This Is”. The Google Pixel 4A at only $350 packs the exact same camera from its bigger brother, which means that as far as quality goes, it’s about as good as it gets, and with the side benefit of only costing $350. So today, why don’t we take a little bit of a closer at why the Pixel 4A is for you. (Matt groans) Thank you very much, by the way. This is when I’m gonna just say thank you very much for subscribing to “This Is” for not only puns, but also insightful and very well-knowledged tech content. Again, thank you for subscribing because I know you’ve obviously already subscribed, right. You got that bell on. You got that notification enabled on your app on your brand new Google Pixel 4A. So the story with his phone is very different than it was for its predecessor, the Pixel 3A, from last year. So with that it really was a departure for Google in that they were able to deliver something which was actually a very good phone on pretty much all fronts. So the thing with the standard Pixel line, for the last several years, almost pretty much since the first one, was that while they’re good phones in many aspects, there’s pretty much always some problem with it, right? So whether it’s battery life, whether it’s screen issues, whether it’s the notch, but with the Pixel 3A they delivered something which was very competitive with the standard Pixel 3 of the time, but at a significantly cheaper price. And from all the sales data it seems like the Pixel 3A sold much, much better than any of the other Pixel 4s from last year. So it makes sense that they’re trying to double down on that with the Pixel 4A. Ooh, look at that. That’s what the kids call a hole punch. So unlike the standard Pixel line, which currently uses bezels, which is a little bit of an older school technique, instead we have what actually is a pretty modern looking device. Little bit of a thicker chin on bottom than on top but again, you have to consider that this is $350 bucks. This phone is only available in one configuration, six gigs of RAM, 1 and 20 gigs of storage, which side note is actually a very good deal even when you compare it to something like the Nord or specifically that iPhone SE, you have to spend a lot more to hit that same level and you only get it in one color, just black because matte black is cool, I guess. Ah, I do have a SIM card and it’s not here because I’m not prepared because I’m making a “This Is” video. - [Matt] What? - (clears throat) Don’t mind me as I take my SIM card out of the OnePlus Nord, this phone’s probably biggest competition. - [Matt] That’s a bold claim. - Look, when you’re talking about this sort of low to mid range smartphone market, I think that there’s a lot of talk about the iPhone SE. The iPhone SE, to be very clear, is an excellent phone for $400. However, if you are purchasing a Pixel device, my thought is you’re probably not completely just cross-shopping it with an iPhone. You probably actually really care about Android as Android has many advantages. And also when you look at the iPhone SE, as good of a phone it is and we’ll definitely talk about it in a little bit, it also has some pretty big compromises, mostly the design, which is very, very old at this point. Whereas something like the Nord, something like the Pixel 4A feel like a much more modern phone. There’s a train outside. I’m going to ignore that. All right, here comes the test. How’s the keyboard feel? Ooh, it’s a nice little vibration motor. I just typed teat. - [Matt] Why? - I was trying to type test and I types teat. - [Matt] This is the whole reason why me and Ken still come to the office every day. - ‘Cause otherwise people would be stuck watching this. You know it’s extra bad because I’m editing this, so I’m gonna leave in all my really dumb jokes. - [Matt] Oh yeah. - One thing I will immediately say about the Pixel 4A, this is a really nice size. So if you look at like something compared to the Nord, I mean, it is much, much smaller.

And personally, I really like that. I’m a fan of the Z Flip flippy boys and the smaller phones of the world and this to me is really comfy. Woo, woo, do you see that, my friends? So this little hole on the chassis, just to fill your kids in who might not be familiar with this, this little hole in the chassis is used for what us old timers call a headphone jack. So this was before the days of Bluetooth where you had to use this thing called a wire to listen to your music. It was very archaic, I know, but thankfully our friends over at Google have continued to support the headphone jack, and I very much appreciate that. Am I going to use it? Probably not. But I like to have it. So when you put the Pixel 4A side by side with its closest competition, the iPhone SE, which comes in at a full $50 more expensive. So this is 350, this starts at 400, although it is actually $450 if you want that same amount of storage. And then of course we have the big boy, the OnePlus Nord, which is $450, or thereabouts based on your currency. However, it does have that 120 gigs of storage standard. So the thing that I like about the Pixel right off the bat is the camera. So this has the same lens and sensor as the Pixel 4, as well as the Pixel 3 and I think actually the Pixel 3A. What that means is paired with their excellent software, you are getting an excellent, excellent camera on the Pixel. So the Pixel 4A still uses that same single camera. So there’s no telephoto, there’s no ultra wide, same as the iPhone SE to be fair. When you look at the OnePlus Nord, well this is camera city, but camera city doesn’t actually mean much because while yes, you have four camera sensors, you really only have one and a half. So the main camera is white nice, and I’ll show you a couple of photos from that, but the thing is, the ultra wide is nice to have but not particularly good. The macro camera is trash and the depth sensor is next to useless when you consider that both of these phones with only a single lens are able to take actually really nice looking portraits. Now, of course, there’s more to a phone than just the camera experience, but when it comes to the Pixel, that has really been their main selling feature. The Pixels have not only good hardware, but also really great image processing with things like night sight that brings out tons of detail, much more so than the other two phones. But I’m sure you’ve seen all the MKBHD videos on why the Pixel 4A is a interesting foray into the budget phone category. Why don’t we talk about some of the things that actually make the Pixel 4A just a little bit different? Like how there’s a Discover Something New pet tab on the Play Store and it’s “Minecraft”, “Clash of Clans”, and “Call of Duty”, probably the three most popular games ever. Now when you compare the Pixel 4A with something like the iPhone, there are a couple of major advantages on the iPhone front. First of all is longevity. This iPhone we know pretty much for a fact is going to be getting software updates for years and years and years. Now, to be fair, Google’s actually promised I believe two to three years based on actual full updates and security updates beyond that for Android on the Pixel, which is very good, probably at least equal if not better than what you’re going to get on the Nord, but it is not going to have the performance and it’s not going to have the software support for longterm use. Usually that’s not really a problem as far as I’m concerned for a $350 phone, but when you have Apple out here with a phone that’s a little bit more expensive and something that I would feel completely comfortable saying, “Hey, you know what, “this can be your next phone for the three, four years “in the future.” That definitely has something to say about that. So spec-wise, this is not the most powerful phone here. So it is powered by the Snapdragon 730G processor, which is a little bit on the older side. It’s about a year and a half old at this point.

And while the original Pixel 3A was, I would say, borderline too slow, responsiveness and sort of general isn’t bad, but it cannot hold a candle to the incredible iPhone SE, which has that Apple A13 processor, really the same kind of responsiveness as you get out of something like a modern iPhone, and even something like the OnePlus Nord, which while yes, there’s a little bit of a better processor, but importantly it has a 90 Hertz display, which really does a lot to give you that feeling of fluidity, especially considering how much OnePlus does to really optimize this phone for speed. Now using the Pixel, it’s certainly not slow, but I wouldn’t call it fast. I’d call it what you’d expect for a $350 phone, especially when you get into things like gaming, you’re going to start noticing the limits there. But if that’s the price you have to pay to pay a lower price for the phone, then I’m okay with that because really at the end of the day, this is a $350 phone. So it does have its 60 Hertz display, but it’s MLO display, right? It looks really nice and importantly, you have none of that headphone jack, but if I had a… I would show you. You know what a headphone jack is. I already made that joke. But we also do have dual stereo speakers. A game you can see again by our friends over at Xbox Game- That’s really good. Something else that the Pixel has this year is thankfully pretty solid battery life. So it has a slightly larger than 3,000 milliamp hour cell, which might not sound impressive but the nice thing is that it does have that battery life in a sort of device that has a fairly low-end processor, especially considering it’s only a 60 Hertz display, you should have no problem getting through a full day of use with this. So when you look at the Pixel 4A, it’s very easy to talk about the compromises. It’s good for the price. It’s good, except for this. It’s good except for that. But the thing is this actually makes a lot of smart decisions. Obviously, it is very clear that the camera is important, but things like the plastic build actually isn’t so bad. I mean sure, would I love to have full water resistance and wireless charging? Absolutely and that is one of the real advantages I think a lot of people don’t really talk about too much with the iPhone SE, but I’m willing to get over that, especially at the $350 price point. Would I love to see a 90 Hertz display from the Nord? Absolutely. And something else I would love to have is 5G. So a lot of people talked about the lack of 5G on the Pixel 4A, and to be clear, there is a 5G version of this phone coming at some point. They’ve sort of oddly pre-annouced the Pixel 5A 5G, wait 4A 5G. 4A 5G? - [Ken] Pixel 4A- - But there’s also a Pixel- - [Ken] And the Pixel 5. - Okay, so here’s the lineup: the Pixel 4A 4G, the Pixel 4A 5G, the Pixel 5 5G. - [Ken] You don’t know about the Pixel 5 5G. - The Pixel 5’s gonna have 5G, Ken. It’s gonna have 5G. You also have things like the fingerprint sensor on the back. Look, I’m happy that the OnePlus has the in-display fingerprint sensor. Like cool, that makes it for like great marketing. It’s not as good. Straight up, it is not as good as having a real fingerprint sensor. I mean, even the iPhone has kept it on the iPhone SE and they’ve been doing Face ID for years. I really liked the idea of actually having that physical one, especially given the days that we live in, where I’m using my fingerprint sensor that all the time, ‘cause Face ID doesn’t work with certain. But you know what I like about the Pixel 4A? It doesn’t have anything you don’t need. So unlike the Nord, which has a hundred cameras on the back and only one and a half are useful, this, even though it has that same kind of modern design, has one camera and that’s fine ‘cause it is a very, very good camera. Would I like to see an ultra wide? Absolutely, or even telephoto, whatever the case, would be nice, but this is tried and true to hardware, and importantly from Google’s perspective it’s that same sensor…

That is a really loud train. It’s the same sensor that they’ve been using for awhile, which means I’m sure it’s gotten cheaper and cheaper, which enables us to get the same flagship image quality that we’ve expected on phones twice this price now at $350. I’m a little concerned about the build quality. I personally really liked the way this plastic feels, but when it comes into the jerry-rig everything durability test, I’m a little bit concerned. But on the whole of it, I think Google have made a lot of very smart decisions with the Google Pixel 4A. And if I’m looking for a phone in this price point, all three of these really are excellent options, right? The Nord, if you can buy it, is a great phone, and if you can spend that extra $100, you’re getting a better phone, but there’s no doubt that there’s a lot going for this Nord but it’s bigger, it’s not as available in as many places, and especially when you look at the difference between 350 and $450, that’s significant. The iPhone SE is a little bit more interesting to me. It’s an older phone in a lot of senses. It has sort of have a good camera, but it’s an old sensor with like sort of better processing, which means that it, generally speaking, does a good job, but if you like start pixel peeping it’s not white as nice. And on the whole of it, I do prefer the Pixel camera. And you have the older school design, you have the mediocre battery life, but you have legitimately really nice things like an incredibly fast processor, and you have the water resistance, and you have that wireless charging. But with the Pixel 3A, it’s sort of everything you need and nothing you don’t. It’s got good battery life, good screen. A lot of these things that you expect and need to use on a daily basis, but at a really, really affordable price. If it’s me, I don’t think I’m gonna wait for a Pixel 4A 5G. I mean obviously, we need to wait and see what the differences are. Actually, it seems like it may be slightly larger. Obviously it’s going to have a bit of a better processor at 5G and stuff, but like, look 350, yeah, you’ve got me on board. $500? Unless it is a major step forward that one’s a little bit of a tougher sell. Which means that as far as I’m concerned, this Google Pixel 4A is one of the most exciting phones of the year. Not because it is great, not because it excels, but because it brings so much how many vary smart features to a really compelling price point, and it doesn’t bring all the gimmicks that you don’t need that you don’t need to pay for. So that, my friends, is my video on the Google Pixel 4A. Make sure to subscribe here on “This IS” for other Austin Rant Corners like this, and make sure to let Matt know that even though he’s 10 feet away and yelling at me off camera, that he’s always here in spirit, no matter if he’s on camera or not.

I don't think the Japanese atmosphere is that non-trivial in terms of being able to intuitively recognize that surface and essence are inextricably linked. Sorry, just kidding.

Right here, right now, in the name of Me, the means and ends are being switched in an ongoing process.

Warning: If you are one of the drunk people who are about to start reading this, I suggest you stop wasting your time right now.
I spent a mind-boggling amount of time and almost went insane through the process of choosing between iPhone SE (2020) and Pixel 4a, but at this very moment, my heart is leaning towards the Pixel 4a. My longing for the unknown world of Android has pushed me over the edge. As anyone who has peeked inside my head knows, the AirPods Pro is trying to get me to buy an iPhone SE, 12 mini, or even 12 or 13. It's a major source of anxiety and has occupied some of my precious memory space for nearly two years. The Apple Ecosystem has reversed the master-slave relationship between me and my tools through three major products and the notoriously prohibitively expensive wireless headphones. The Pixel 4a may be one of the methods that stops me from being disappointed in myself. In other words, I feel compelled to decide whether or not to trigger my belief in the fantasy that rational decision-making is not a complete fantasy. I may be objectively diagnosed as OCD, but I can't help but be amazed at myself that I felt no hesitation in projecting a proxy war within my mental world on those smart phone choices.

How wonderful it would be if we could find even one person on this horizon who could make the wise decision to undertake a major overhaul of the grand framework of consular jurisdiction procedural language in a dilapidated corner of the hippocampus designated as a special zone for structural reform! Isn't that possible? Or is the problem itself flawed? Do you sense the signs of the third great revolution, comparable to the Industrial Revolution and the Information Revolution? If you don't feel it, you are ideologically insensitive. In fact, the prevailing theory as to why I am a bit overly cautious about copyright and privacy is that it is of sufficient nature to make me fearful, but mainly that I am one of those folks who believe in the existence of social responsibility. We are prone to coin words. Coined words are not evil, but ignorance is evil according to the theory of evolution. In other words, we should know the meaning of our newly coined words.

This is just the manifestation of an irresponsible attitude.

I know and you know.

To put it simply, "becoming an adult" is a state of being able to say what you think honestly and well. It is sometimes misunderstood that becoming an adult means developing and improving your ability to perceive in order to say things well, but this is an unreliable external assessment used without quantitative measurement.

I wanna something cozy.

The fear of being famous is the fear of changing your purpose. Becoming famous doesn't necessarily change your purpose, but it does make it kind of difficult.

The origin of Chikuwa is unclear, as it is said to date back to either the Yayoi or Heian periods, but it is mentioned as Kamaboko in some books from the Muromachi period onwards. The name “Kamaboko" is derived from the fact that the shape of the fish paste wrapped around a stick resembling a spearhead resembles an ear of kama.

In the late Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603), Ita-Kamaboko, which was made by heating surimi on a flat board, appeared. In order to distinguish it from the Ita-Kamaboko, it was called “Chikuwa Kamaboko" because the cut end looked like a cut from a bamboo, and later abbreviated to “Chikuwa". Before the Meiji era (1868-1912), Kamaboko and Chikuwa were regarded as luxury items because white fish itself was an expensive ingredient.

真・スレッドストッパー。。。(￣ー￣)ﾆﾔﾘｯ