Still on the fence about IFTTT Pro. I do use 5-6 recipes right now, out of which I could live without a few, though that would mean allowing other apps to send me notifications, which I'm not interested in.
@joeo10 thanks! Yeah, I think they're doing better now. Seems they've been released from the hospital to convalesce at home.
// @matigo
@sumudu same for Dubai apparently. WhatsApp text is fine, calls are off limits. Weirdos!
@matigo heard from a friend whose parents are in Qatar and have contracted COVID-19. It's a pain for her to get in touch with them…
@matigo well yeah, for humans it's more about consciousness and personality that defines who we are. But for objects, it's what we assign to them. If you say the reconstructed-from-scraps ship "is the one that went on the adventure" then that's correct… But if even one piece is in the "new" ship, then that ship too is the one that went.
Besides, it doesn't matter which one went on the adventure, because "a ship went on the journey" and whichever is presented is the one.
Museums often keep expertly made replicas of paintings on display to prevent damage and to maintain continuity for when paintings are undergoing repairs. A passing visitor who doesn't know this will believe that the painting she's looking at is the original, and that's fine.
@matigo so, that Hobbes says the reconstructed ship is the original and not the one whose parts have all been replaced?
@matigo ugh… true… twitter, reddit, medium, all of these are just ugly about it.
@matigo I'd say that for engagement, the native client/notifications problem is the foremost to solve.
But, is that the most important thing for the platform? Not sure of that. If you want to scale nice.social and create a widely reached network, then yes.