Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

@sabbatical A discussion about that, which did settle on the "it's more likely he ate the bugs", is precisely how I learned it

I guess I was too quick to type and should've added "necessarily"

@sabbatical @QOTO @freemo I have not seen this fwiw

TIL "eating locust" doesn't mean the bugs

Star jelly is some weird stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_jelly

@jezza Just reading through this is a blast from the past with all the names of defunct stores and such

The highest compliment one can make about a couple is that one is CIA and the other is their handler

I love the internet https://walzr.com/payphone-go/

@jezza Ahhh yeah students don't count! That's a good point—my town has ~30% of residents French as a first language and that's a lot different in culture than somewhere that's 3 in 10 francophone students.

Office plankton is a great phrase! I love trying to pick up foreign idioms (even foreign English things) and trying to make them stick here. I think that's a good example of culture actually spreading

Any of my autism acquaintances have thoughts on Home Educating Our Autistic Spectrum Children: Paths are Made by Walking?

and/or any other reading suggestions in the encouragement department for home schooling parents

@jezza I feel like the language count comment… still not a great measure of culture as a whole but better than just food!

Spice whores is good. We can pencil that in for now until we find something more polite.

@progo As a big Mondrian fan, I think this is an invitation to reproduce his art anywhere and everywhere, right?

Thanks for sharing and helping me further develop my opinion on how copyright should work.

"So tourists photograph our €12 Stroopwafel. And worship cuisines they do not understand. We pretend knowing spice blends makes us cosmopolitan. We reduce thousand year civilisations to their lunch options.

And we call this our culture."

https://heritagestandard.substack.com/p/the-joke-thats-eating-culture

Not one but two map-related things for my cartophile friends https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/206/

@progo I like the idea of making parents responsible for what their kids have access to, and forcing OS developers to help in that process. Seems like less effort for everyone!

"Reading" is to audiobooks as "cycling" is to Peloton

If you can't appreciate the skill and talent involved in well-performed music in a genre you dislike, anything you have to say about music in genres you do like is meaningless.