Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

I can’t help but say this feels out of character for a Wikipedia article.

@mike I haven’t run into that for a while, but the early days of Siri got me in the habit of saying “51 minutes” when precision didn’t matter

Action shots.

A recurring experience:

1. Person complains to me about an IT-related gripe they have
2. I suggest a remedy
3. They brush me off like fixing the problem is less important than complaining about it

I don't know what to make of this.

You know, if you don't drink such giant cups of coffee, it'll stay warm while you're drinking it

The one thing Purolator has over Amazon's in-house shipping is the former will ring the doorbell when dropping a package off.

In 2035 it will have been the same amount of time from the first manned moon landing to the present as it has been from the Kitty Hawk until the first (supposed 😉) manned moon landing.

It took 66 years from flying to landing on the moon… what will we have 66 years after landing on the moon?

@GummyNerds Just for that, I shall have to call it the Gummy Ulcer

@klaatu They call it the earthling disease so it's only fair!

The single best kind of repeating todo item is a "repeat x days/time after completion"

Syphilis was called…

The French disease by the English, Germans, and Italians

The Neapolitan disease by the French

The Hindu disease by the Muslims

The Muslim disease by the Hindus

The Christian disease by the Turks

The Polish disease by the Russians

The Spanish disease by the Dutch

The Chinese ulcer by the Japanese

What a lovely exercise in finger-pointing.

"I've got a hole in my brain / where what I meant to say lives" rings too true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmpelduRY3I

@louis Weird, I've never heard that specifically before, but I have been told many-a-time that drivers of red cars get more speeding tickets… not quite the same thing but probably an idea that is built on the same idea

It's wild that the APA styleguide says to change the case of the title of a work instead of leaving it how the author intended.

Human zoos are wild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboula%27s_Village

Drop your favourite illustration of Santa here

I wonder what political systems like the USA or Canada have would look like if next-of-kin of someone who has served in an elected office weren't allowed to run for office

When people want to “dress up” they do things to make them look more attractive to the type of people they want to seem cool to—as a “mating ritual” or otherwise.

While that might seem obvious, the part where it gets interesting to me is how some people are *really* bad at it—as if they don't actually know what makes them look better than default.

tfw someone is talking about a news story too scared to mispronounce a Dutch place name and says “I’m not even going to try that—I’ll butcher it" but has no issue mis-pronouncing the person's name wrong when there's pronunciation guide for both place and person in the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lisanne_Froon