Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

@mike 🤯

I have to guess/assume (guessume?) that doing it with an ice cube and then removing the remainder when the soup is at a kid-friendly temperature ends up diluting the soup less… even if that's not true it sounds reasonable enough to be why our parents did it that way

Textbooks would be so much cheaper if they didn't have useless stock photography

I guess I back into parking spots even though it's more work for me now because of the service to myself in the future but more importantly the service to my wife if she happens to drive away in the future

If you're already on iOS 26, set background pictures for your iMessage conversations that'll make the other person react strongly, thus alerting you when they've updated their device.

Updated my list of recommend tv series https://levisan.me/recommendations/recommended-tv-shows.html

@sabbatical I would be all in if X was part of it!

If you want a shelter to be accessible and feel like the best option for a person who is trying to pick the least-bad option, you put it somewhere well-connected by not-car transportation.

Anything other than that and you get a ghost town or a prison.

@sabbatical Looks like a cool tool!

It’s kind of great that North Americans finally got around to sparkling water being a normal thing to have at gatherings and stuff, even if it’s Bubly

FIFO works great for me 95% of the time, except for when someone follows up to their original email and bumps it _lower_ in the queue.

Aside from two people, every person that one might consider to be a friend of mine is a relationship built on another relationship. If those other relationships end, I don't know how long the friendships would last.

@black6 haha yep you caught on quickly!

What format are your kids' school-provided email addresses?
Something reasonably guessable or with random numbers, etc?

Doing some research for work. Do share the format if you wish.

I don’t think I can take seriously anyone who has the knowledge of how to use an em dash properly but lacks the knowledge to type it

Has a Ph.D., still types "--"

@BackwardsFeet

In which I shill for a friend https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/176/

@progo It’s a pity ads just don’t load properly in my house

Groups that purport to care about what happens to a person after they die and require people them to take action before they die for the sake of that should not brag about how many people join their group, but how many people die in what is believed to be the right state

For example, a Christian group counting new members is fine. "New member count is trending up year over year" is a beneficial stat. I won't disagree there, especially if they're one that believes non-members aren't saved*

but if the goal is salvation then the stat you should be bragging about is people dying while in a state of getting th Eternal Reward™

New member count can trend up but if those people apostatise before they die, what difference does it make?
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*If they don't believe non-members aren't saved, then they really shouldn't be bragging about the new members who are already saved, if their goal is in fact salvation and not their own member count but that's another rant for another day.

I don't like small talk, but that doesn't mean I don't like talking about the weather.

I don’t understand how “free speech” has to be more complicated than “no one can suppress what you want to express it causes problems, you’ll be held liable”