This Is My Ocean Now

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

oh I know this one!

so, historically, one was considered to be a prime number, though not universally. if wikipedia is to be believed, publications as recent as 1956 included one in lists of primes.

the problem was that there's a lot of really important theorems about primes that are only true if you ignore one. the biggest is a theorem so important that it's literally called "The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic", that every integer greater than one has a unique prime factorization. if one is counted as a prime number, this is no longer true (you can multiply any number by one arbitrarily many times and get the same number), so older definitions of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic would refer to "prime numbers greater than one".

and this context of primes as the components of a number's prime factorization is like, The context in which mathematicians care about prime numbers. it is the reason studying prime numbers is even a thing anyone does. so, if one were considered a prime number (as it once was), the word "prime" would basically only ever be used in A) lists of prime numbers and B) the phrase "prime number greater than one".

1 cup white granulated sugar

1 cup molasses (dark or blackstrap)

2 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 tsp hazelnut extract

1/4 tsp table salt

3 tbsp powdered milk

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

4 cups flour

2 cup chocolate chips

Directions:

1) Preheat oven to 375°F.

2) Put the sugar in a bowl, and use a fork to mix together with the butter.

3) Add the eggs and molasses, mix well.

4) Add everything else but the flour and choc chips, mixing well.

4) Add the flour and mix.

5) Add the choc chips and mix in.

6) Make balls of dough and place on a metal baking sheet covered with a layer of parchment paper.

7) Bake for 11 minutes, then remove and let set for 10 to 15 minutes.

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Basically I got in and there was an email that there was a new policy on lunch breaks which is that we are required to clock out for 30 minutes for a meal break. Which wouldn’t be a problem except we’re often staffing stores alone. And the company was like “You’re not allowed to close the store, though, just clock out and don’t get paid for 30 minutes.”

This made a lot of people very unhappy and was widely regarded as a bad move.

So our manager was trying to go over the changes and I was like, “So I’m required to clock out for 30 minutes even if I’m alone in the store for the day.” Yes.

“I am going to leave the store. I am legally allowed to leave if you are not paying me.” You will get written up.

“That violates the labor laws and this company has had to pay for these violations previously. I will leave and look at birds.”

When we clock out we get an option to say whether we took a lunch. If we say no it then asks if it was voluntary or not.

If it’s not voluntary then the company has to pay us a penalty for not giving us an opportunity to take the break.

Every single shift I worked alone (which was most of my week at that time) I marked the penalty box. If I couldn’t close the store and was working alone then I did not voluntarily give up my lunch. Turns out, I wasn’t alone in doing so.

Three months later the company sent out signs that we could put on the door for lunches and an official update that we could close the store to take a lunch.