Now streaming on Levi+ @levisan@qoto.org

I don't get the point of AirBnB and similar for the sake of doing what a hotel can do, but one day I would like to find one that has a waterbed so I can see what they were all about.

Watching old farts drumming is my new thing

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

Anecdote time.

My mom's stepmom was born in 1926. She grew up with a pit toilet as the family toilet, but it was a special one. Inside the shack, they had two seats. One was normal size and the other was smaller, to be more kid-friendly.

As she and her siblings got older, they would say that using the regular-sized seat was a sign of maturity. And, being siblings, they'd often use the toilet two-at-a-time.

One morning before school during the height of the Depression, she and her sisters went to the outhouse before leaving for school, shouting "Big hole, big hole!" to call dibs on the toilet seats and flex how mature they were that they could handle the adult-sized seat.

Turns out there was a hobo (her words) in the outhouse. "…and he scurried out of there so fast and we never saw him again".

Being homeless then was nicer because there was "public" toilets everywhere.

Made some notes for you if you head to YVR https://levisan.me/articles/visiting-vancouver.html

Among your _actual_ friends, what is your least popular opinion?

@CattleBaron So… what flips your switch? Which do you prefer in your on speech?

If I could avoid all the draining social things I'm required to do, I think I'd surprise myself with the amount of social things I'd end up doing

If you borrow a noun from another language, a word that hasn't already become common usage in English (like "pizza"), and you want to make it plural, do you use that language's plural form or the English?

The 50s were wild! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_quiz_show_scandals

@raintrees I like that nuance!

I don't understand the response of "oh, did they?" when you tell someone that someone did something. What, do you not believe me? I guess it is kind of like "no way!" or other statements of disbelief but this sounds more… combative?

If I'm understanding the Space Liability Convention correctly, if one of Elon's rockets were to crash on my house and kill me, my family would have to petition the government to petition the US government to charge SpaceX for the damages. https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/151/

I want a map where I can click any section of border between two countries and it tells me why. Arbitrary line? Following a visible land feature like a river? Following a subtle land feature like a continental divide? Toddler scribbling on the map?

"settler" vs "coloniser"

https://levisan.me/articles/settler-vs-coloniser.html

Call me crazy but it seems ridiculous that APA citation formatting rules dictate changing the letter cases of the title of a source so as to match the rules, rather than using the letter casing used by the author/publisher. One more point added in my personal style-guide.

On most platforms, pepper and olive emoji are unripe fruits. WHY.

I don't necessarily disagree but… My family's home is 2200 square feet total, not counting the small two-car garage. There's six of us living here. Sure, we have some extra spaces that we don't "need" like a second room with couches. But if you added up the amount of space we use for storage, not including the bedroom closets, we're easily using 700 square feet to store things like sports gear, seasonal things, games, etc. (That's not counting the stuff "required" to live on 1/3 acre, which is irellevant when comparing to an apartment.)

I think we could feasibly live in 1500 with the only downside being having to share spaces with people doing other things more often.

Sure, a "young family" with 2-3 kids could live in that 1100 square foot space. But I posit they'd need 500 more somewhere in which to store their junk.

https://x.com/bobbyfijan/status/1906369225381281798/photo/2

The Residence was a fun show. Fantastic music and a neat style of storytelling/editing that saved you from having to remember character names (my nemesis) by visually reminding you of what is being talked about in conversation.