Also, there was this hilarious comment under the original image:

"They're replacing the internet with something else" is literal. It's harder and harder to find what you want because you're not allowed to have what you want anymore. You're allowed to work hard till you die and hope Big Tech shares its merciful bounty with you. You can't spell "social media" without "soma."

In case you are interested, facebook now opens links in a site of thier's, but it contains an embedded window of the site you were linked to. This means that facebook can follow any other links you follow while on that site. It has the site effect of you not visiting that site but instead facebook's "hidden window" shows in the history.

It has no practical reason to exist other than allowing them to gather more data.

Some mobile browsers might have an add-in to auto-break you out of the window.

There's a sports scientist, I've forgotten her name but she wrote a book called Women are Not Small Men. In her book she says that long distance swimming is one sport that women actually outperform men in.

Edit: her name is Stacy Sims

Why are you using Facebook?

So she was swimming for roughly 18 hours? I'm impressed and terrified.

It likely was the most efficient energy-wise, why waste energy going against the current when it'll undo itself anyways.

An aquadesic line, if you will

Do you still have the galleons filled with gunpowder or is the isle ripe for Spanish invasion?

It's the tidal current throwing the swimmer around. They swam along the same heading the entire time.

It’s just really hard to follow google maps navigation when there’s no roads and some big waves.

edit: ffs :)

Like that bloke said to Caesar. Beware the tides of march.

Should have just gone in April.

Can't explain that

I was excited that you provided the coords. Thanks!

Support boat

When I was young (also stupid) we were on holiday at Punta Verudela, Pula, (44.8348180, 13.8373873) and one day, that island in the distance (44.8312627, 13.8398307) looked too cool to not swim too it, and me, my dad and my brother decided to try and make it there. It looked pretty close, but I never swam so long in my life. Because we took our sweet time and had a pretty chill tempo, after about an hour, we made it! on our side it was all sheer and sharp cliffs though, so although the island was still cool and enticing, we had no idea if it was even possible to get up there somewhere, or how long it would take to swim around. Playing it safe, we swam back in about the same tempo and took another hour of relaxed swimming. Probably helped that the Mediterranean sea isn't as tidally active. Checking it now, the swimming distance seems around 440m (we approximated 1Km back then :) ) I wasn't scared at any point and just having fun, but thinking back now, so many things could have gone wrong. I think I would be a lot more afraid to try that again, without knowing what I'm getting myself into.

I think you mean "sinusoidal".