Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Tallying Olympic medals naturally makes people want to find a "winner"
https://levisan.me/articles/who-won-the-olympics.html

I don't care if half of American murders go unsolved, we must find the thieves! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft

Latest list of links
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/201/

The economics of unpayed internships/practicums is wild

@jezza Haha you're right, it really is all about the bottle (and uncorking it, I suppose)

Happy shrove/mardis/vetten Tuesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDA1inmPZg

I get why sparkling apple juice is treated as a non-booze fancy drink to feel like champagne. But with all the fancy non-alcoholic drinks that are now more accessible and popular than ever, can that stop?

@mike I don't mind Apple's ethos when they pick what they think is best for everyone and you have no other option.

But this is an example of them changing what they pick and that's rather annoying.

@jezza Aha yes!

@jezza And that is one of the best websites ever built right there!

I always find it interesting in a good way when I look at the websites for small marketing agencies—the kind I which I did subcontracted work for when I was freelancing full time—and see how their websites are old, out of date, or just generally unexciting.

it's like business is good enough that they don't care about their appearance, potentially to a detrimental-to-bringing-in-revenue level. Goals, I guess? But it's weird.

I find it funny when businesses that add up the total experience in their office and then brag that they have x number of years of experience in the field.

Bragging that you have "100 years of combined experience" without saying how many people are on the team could mean you have 100 newbies or 3 seasoned experts. It's not a qualification of anything!

Assuming car traffic is flowing at an average speed 15% greater than the speed limit, and knowing that driving slower than the flow can be dangerous, which is more ethically wrong/morally grave:

Breaking the limit and going with the flow, or going the limit?

"All our houseplants are doing really well"

Wondered if BRICS+ was their streaming offering at first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS

@jezza I like your point about it resolving in rankings… I guess that makes sense

I don't get the point of a one-world currency. What benefit would it provide other than greater efficiency? Why do the people who say it's a sign of The End Times™ say the bad guys would even want that?

After 26 years of being consciously aware of the Olympics and being reasonably indifferent to the concept of the whole (though interested in several parts within) I have developed three opinions.

1. Any sport that has an extant “best of the world” competition should not be in the Olympics.

2. The Olympics started as a competition of pure athleticism. Events that require the opinions of judges should not be included.

3. We shouldn't be tallying medals by nations. Nations should participate as the pool from which teams can be made and their local Olympic committees deciding which athletes can partake, but that's it. It shouldn't be a competition between nations.

@magicalthinking heehee well done