Horizontal band member here. If I have to take a photo of a wardrobe, my whole self, a jumping giraffe or the Empire States Building, you can be sure as heck I'll hold the phone vertically. The only reason for me to take a horizontal photo of my fridge is when it fell on my foot.

Same thing goes vice versa: vertically filming a scenery, a dish, my mom's panties or a seesaw is plain dumb, unless there's something else that justifies the awful framing.

BUT when you make a video for the purpose of uploading it to sites like YouTube... You can't convince me vertical would make more sense. I understand that it's the same problem if it's a vertically aligned app (I could go on a 3 day rant about Instagram not allowing horizontal - or any - full screen on desktop), but decent portals do it properly. If you have a phone and you want to watch vertical stuff, problem solved. If you have a phone and want to watch horizontal stuff, just rotate your damn screen, it's a no-brainer. But when you have a monitor, you can't (always) just turn it 90 degrees and watch vertical stuff full screen.

Because of lazy uploaders AND lazy management/devs, there are countless of cases where a full screen video has actual content on less than 10% of the screen, because a horizontal video was uploaded to a vertical site, then you open it on a horizontal monitor and it plays like

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Reality isn't continuous, at least as far as we are aware. Past the plank scale at least our models don't work. Infinite information to encode everything seems like it would all just collapse into a black hole immediately so having some limit somewhere makes sense at least in that way.

Current astrophysical data shows that the large-scale spatial geometry of our universe is flat, meaning parallel lines remain parallel and triangles add up to 180°. However, flatness does not strictly prove the universe is infinite; a flat, simply connected universe is mathematically infinite, but a flat, multiply connected universe (like a cylinder or a hyper-torus) could be finite.Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background have measured this geometry with incredible precision, though slight margins for error still allow for the possibility that the universe curves on scales far larger than what we can observe.Whether the universe is finite or infinite remains an unresolved question in physics, though scientists generally use an infinite, flat model for standard cosmological calculations because it is mathematically simpler.

If you're talking about Behind the Curve, that was a brilliant documentary.

I was hoping to enjoy it but those fuckers were so fucking sad. No lives or friends. No measurable accomplishments.

Spent fucking several grand on a silly Lazer experiment.

I never saw this STST guy in Behind the Curve. I saw Mark Sargent, but not this STST guy. https://www.youtube.com/@STST

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The cynical part of me thinks that he's just trying to make bank as a reformed flat earther, he changed his entire world view in a period of a month. There's probably more money to be made there. Much easier to get sponsorship deals if you don't come off as a crazy person.

Praiase? Hardly. Praising human monkeys for "learning" is meta-hoo-doo floppery. That's what we're supposed to do.