Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

People saying things like "we don't live in a state of anarchy, we live in a society" drive me up the wall. It's such a basic category error but also muddies the definition of both nouns

@mike It's funny-not-funny how much we have to rely on the tv's ever-bloating OS just to get it to show something via HDMI

@mike Back when I was a kid, the OS was contained in a reasonably-cheaply-replaceable set-top box and I miss those days

@mike Yes! Reading about stuff like this makes me wish I were a tad older and/or had less protective parents. (Though I do remember hearing about this particular thing)

Flashback to wild times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

@vga um, okay?

@progo With great power comes great incompetence apparently!

@jezza Haha well this is a good one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M44iM5G4318

I absolutely love listening to people speaking other languages. It's like people watching for the ears.

I appreciate the live strings and drum pad combo going on here https://youtu.be/M9Wrhsua4rc

@jezza I like this. And end of season discounts are the best!

@jezza I was home schooled for the first 7 years, so I went into public education fully aware it would be wasting my time haha

[somber, oppressive music rises]

An actual subtitle from something I watched!

One day, the costs associated with media which really are costs of the physical delivery, and not the media itself, will be remembered as a minute blip in the history of mankind.

What's something you wish you had been taught before you became an adult?

Here's your biannual reminder that "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" does not, in fact, discuss the weather, so singing the opening line because it is snowing is nonsensical.

Drove past a pair of police cars parked facing traffic and an obnoxious distance from the curb.

I get that some rules are questionable (other equal-civilised places allow parking facing traffic) and that police are, arguably, above the law and unaccountable, but you'd think they could at least park against the curb and set a good example.

Shirts don't work either
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2591

Giving the grandparents of my children connected photo frames feels very much like the scene from Babe (1995) where the adult children get older generation a fax machine