Levi Breederland, now with AI @levisan@qoto.org

I wonder if Monroe realised/knew that the Dutch are behind both https://xkcd.com/2241/

Reading about Dunbar's Number and wondering how many relationships I have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Anecdotally, Vancouver drivers are worse at following the rules than Edmonton or Seattle drivers, and Seattle drives have a higher chance of driving unregistered vehicles than the other two.

I wish English had other common words for winter/spring/summer-y periods like we have “autumn” for 🍂 and can thus distinguish it from astronomical fall without having to say extra words.

Dutch thing of the day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourtange

I thought every job looked cooler if the person had a Peli case but then my kids got their faces painted and the artist’s gear was in one

What's the craic? https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/121/

Me checking in on CBC, 1941, colourised

I'm not a fan of marketing "the community" as a promo of donating to a post-consumption-donation product

After 24 years of being consciously aware of the Olympics and being reasonably indifferent to the concept of the whole (though interested in several parts within) I have developed three opinions that I am recording here to look up in two years.

Any sport that has an extant “best of the world” competition should not be in the Olympics.

The Olympics started as a competition of pure athleticism. Events that require the opinions of judges should not be included.

We shouldn't be talling medals by nations. Nations should participate as the pool from which teams can be made and their local Olympic committees deciding which athletes can partake, but that's it. It shouldn't be a competition between nations.

You encounter a situation with no dress code or social expectations.

It's too warm to comfortably wear both long sleeves and trousers, and two cool for both short sleeves and shorts.

Do you opt for short sleeves or shorts?

Idea: get the loved ones of a person who has dementia to put their speech into a voice "AI", so that if they aren't contactable (or dead) the person with dementia can still "call" them and thus the caretakers can avoid a frusterated patient

@sabbatical Those giant double plug things were wild!

It would be so hard to be a speaker of second language and then get all your emails caught in spam filters

Could someone please tell me what the benefit of Tetra-pak drink containers are?

That does it, I’m going to have to start walking around with a pair of secateurs and giving myself the headroom I need to not take a detour onto the lawn.

Being tall is hard and I wouldn’t normally complain but these are dropping down to block the path of even the shortest of adults now.

Surely there can’t be legal repercussions for me doing a little trimming, right?

@sabbatical and I remembered to try it out while looking up a recipe for traditional sangria. 10/10!

While stats on numbers of people joining a religious group are interesting, I would find it more interesting to see stats on the number of people dying while in alignment with their sect

@sabbatical I like how part of the goal of USB C was to make life simpler and here we are… not simpler!

An Orthodox perspective on the concept of a pre-tribulation rapture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0ocjL88OU