Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

A monolingual society is a boring society

Definitely just saw a written comment where someone used "Google" to mean search but then specified a different site to search on.

Word of the day: fakelore

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_tradition#Fakelore

Watching this has me at ten-year-old-Levi levels of giddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRREz0iBes

Maybe this is going on the (sparse) travelling bucketlist https://youtu.be/PEpcG5WEhqY

Movie recommendation: The Creator

Humans vs AI couldn't be more timely. I don't know why the reveiers didn't like this one but my brother, wife, and I sure did.

@airsick Aha yes! They have no respect for those of us that keep the world turning!

@sabbatical My mom grew up as a teetotaler so that would explain my lack of knowledge on the subject

I get the sterotype of nerds wearing glasses is somewhat essential to a visual representation, but some of the other design choices done by the different emoji "typefaces" seem like they intend to promote negative stereotypes. Childish faces, funny teeth, etc.

https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/

@sabbatical I've never thought of the taste like that of spiciness but that seems to be a great comparison!

@freeschool since posting that I've ended up on the original proposal for the "nerd" emoji and I'll have to revise my original comments

@ZachWeinersmith As a practicing member of the Christian faith, I agree with you. If basic Christian doctrine is anti-semetic, then that's a terrifying standard (and maybe waters down how bad actual anti-semites have been)

Planed obselecense is a thing, sure, but my daily driver keyboard is 20 years old and, aside from missing two function keys, is working just fine

@LouisIngenthron hmm, I definintely say thresh-old now that I think about it

Lichen on Mars when? https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Lichen_survives_in_space via @ohryan

@sabbatical To be fair, I have not done many double-blind drink comparisons to see if I preferred the alcoholic version

@sabbatical I… just learned fruit cakes traditionally have rum in them!