Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A different social circle of mine has been sharing personal bingo cards so I might as well stick mine here as well.

Starting a list of weird rules that seem counterintuitive because after I learned that there's places in which it's illegal to record a conversation you are having without informing the other parties, now I'm learning that there's places where it's illegal to photograph public art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama

I have no interest in a "coffee replacement"

Get me an espresso replacement and we can talk.

People saying things like "we don't live in a state of anarchy, we live in a society" drive me up the wall. It's such a basic category error but also muddies the definition of both nouns

Flashback to wild times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M44iM5G4318

I absolutely love listening to people speaking other languages. It's like people watching for the ears.

I appreciate the live strings and drum pad combo going on here https://youtu.be/M9Wrhsua4rc

[somber, oppressive music rises]

An actual subtitle from something I watched!

One day, the costs associated with media which really are costs of the physical delivery, and not the media itself, will be remembered as a minute blip in the history of mankind.

What's something you wish you had been taught before you became an adult?

Here's your biannual reminder that "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" does not, in fact, discuss the weather, so singing the opening line because it is snowing is nonsensical.

Drove past a pair of police cars parked facing traffic and an obnoxious distance from the curb.

I get that some rules are questionable (other equal-civilised places allow parking facing traffic) and that police are, arguably, above the law and unaccountable, but you'd think they could at least park against the curb and set a good example.

Shirts don't work either
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2591

Giving the grandparents of my children connected photo frames feels very much like the scene from Babe (1995) where the adult children get older generation a fax machine

If it weren’t for paper napkins we wouldn’t have so many dumb ideas going around

Been doing these link-emails for 200 links! https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/196-200/

Should do a playlist of my political opinions in song one day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Cmw1NHUig

When adding alt text, do you try to convey the point of the image or describe what the image is showing?

I might become an unironic RFC 1855 stan https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1855

Primary computer displays should be widescreen. That is certain. But so many things are designed to stack vertically instead of horizontally and I can't figure out why.