Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Life hack: I set new tabs to open directly to the right of the current tab, instead of at the far end and my productivity has gone up tenfold.

Dutch has the best drink abbreviations:

esma (espresso martini)

baco (bacardi & cola)

gito (gin & tonic)

Bonus: afko is short for afkorting, the Dutch equivalent of saying abbreev instead of abbreviation

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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Liability_Convention

Without looking it up, do you know the linguistic origin of the word "honcho"?
(As in "head honcho")

I learned the correct etymology after being in a group that assumed it was similar to "poncho"

Sometimes it seems like the transition from "town built around main thoroughfare" to "town next to main thoroughfare" has been a make-or-break moment for city planning

If all lending with interest is usury because it's lending something and expecting more in return, then all anti-usury people need is a "lending" option that includes something silly in exchange for the interest. The lender needs to give something intangible along with the funds, paid for with a payment schedule calculated the same way interest is calculated. For example, Bo loans Jo $5000 along with a high five. Jo pays Bo 12 monthly payments of $425.75. Now that was an expensive high five, but it's no longer usury. Because of how silly that sounds, I don't think it's accurate to say all interest is usury.

When a soshnet bans a user, they should say on that user's page why it was banned, for the sake of the drama. Also there should be an easy process, initiated from that page, for requesting the username.

Every time I put on my klompen and hop on the omafiets to pick up kids across town I feel so Dutch

I get marketing material from four different "mainstream" photography outlets. This is fine.

But I'm not into generic photography; I'm into the niche that is film photography.

I have zero (0) desire to buy a DSLR or a mirrorless camera or a GoPro. On the other end, I also don't want an instant camera or other products sometimes called "hipster". I just want info on 120 and 135 film, development supplies, printing services, and used cameras.

Those four stores I get emails from all sell those things.

But none of them have any specific marketing channels to promote them, nor do they do things like sales or discounts.

I'm sure is a small portion of their profits… it doesn't make much business sense on paper to put effort into it. But surely they want to support artists and their arts? A little encouragement and community building might increase their profits after all!

@sir_rob Gotta call in the big guns when you want to damn something!

If someone "almost got second-degree burns" does that mean they got first-degree burns or does that mean they didn't get any burns at all, but nearly got burned?

Levi the millennial finds it amazing that making something freely available online doesn't negate any legal claims to copyright.

We should make craic more common in everyday speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic

> "Goof" (A foolish and/or silly person, also Canadian prison slang for rapist)

Never calling my kid a goof again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_slang

Is Betteridge's law of headlines lame?
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/levis-link-list-156-160/

When you see the largest of your initials you’ve ever seen, you stop for a photo

If it ain't broke don't fix it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX

Updated my list of friend-types to include the chance they'll get a Christmas card. https://levisan.me/articles/what-is-friendship.html

Married-adult-parent life is basically going from someone else's issue to another person's issue and never having the resources to address your own issues until you snap

Empty nester life when?