Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Lovely packaging

The rule says, "No vehicles in the park". Is ___ a vehicle? https://novehiclesinthepark.com/

@anyGould I started watching this yesterday with blissful ignorance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIgulaBryA

Including the one election-related link I plan on sharing and you won't regret clicking it—unlike most election-related links. https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/151/

Maybe we need some kind of standardised label (like the nutrition label) on product packaging indicating what percentage of the supply chain chain staff for said product is from the local country. Or an enforced standard of what "prepared in" "made in" "made with" and so on mean.

I think a lot of people get confused when they see a % VALUE ("10% of cats are robots in 2021") and then also see a % CHANGE ("50% more cats are robots in 2022").

They think "10% and 50% more is 10+50=60% of cats are robots in 2022" instead of "10% and 50% more is 10+10*1.5=10% of cats are robots in 2022".

Almost like they are treading the two % signs as the same units but they're not. Similar to accidentally combining ounces (of weight) and fluid ounces.
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Maybe just maybe it's a sign that we (the brilliant intellectuals) should avoid saying % change when it's a % value situation

I wonder if there is a molecular difference between heated frothed milk and steamed milk

@mike I propose “AImnesia”

I have both a chest freezer and an upright one.

In the spirit of “analogue bikes” I think I might start calling them the landscape freezer and portrait freezer

Some valiant internetter compiled all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips about polling https://imgur.com/a/poll-results-calvins-dad-MGYIZzx

One of my biggest fears is not showing the right amount remorse when I was wrong and getting a harsher punishment because of it

I like the idea that coffee tastes like music sounds, but I posit this: music sounds like coffee tastes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkssYHTSpH4

I count 17 individual things. (counting patent medicines and soothing syrups, tobacco and cigarettes, liquor and strong drink, and the pop line as one-item combo words)
7 of the 17 are not of European origin.
How much of this drunkard-grave fear mongering is actually just xenophobia?

Just like how the 2nd Amendment isn't "you can have guns" but rather "we can't make you stop being allowed to have guns," right to repair shouldn't be "we should have the right to repair" but rather "you shouldn't be allowed to stop me from repairing"

For those of you on a Mac, this was an instant "I must have this" kind of app…

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/googly-eyes/id6743048714?mt=12

Talk about a bypass

@progo I'm told that it's a scenario where Person 1 sends a message on a platform that does read receipts, and then Person 2 opens the message but doesn't reply.

Person 1 knows that Person 2 has seen the message but since they haven't received a reply, they've been "left on 'read'".

Very similar to having a message "left unread" (which the kids *don't* say, I'm told) but the key difference being that the sender knows the recipient *has* seen the message.

If an unjust law is no law at all and an unenforceable contract is void, then copying without permission is not something that can be legislated against

Hi, I'm old. I just found out that the phrase is "left on read" and not "left unread" and I can't understand why you young whippersnappers talk so strangely

Hot take on decaf https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx6jh8s_SkMqZqsUyzTbF3ynMrX13QSZ0A