Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

APA formatting rules are fine and all that but the inconsistency of how instructors teach them and arbitrarily add their own specifications makes me hate everything that there is about American psychologists

I'm realising that I REALLY hate it when people say read out the abbreviation of ml as "em ell" instead of saying "millilitre" and similar things

I have to brag that my wife graduated with distinction and it feels very well-deserved

TFW you have an idea for a chart that would be interesting to see and turns out you already had that idea

I don't hate country music. I find it hard to hate an entire broad genre label. I just strongly dislike nearly every single country song I hear.

I also find it hard to love a genre. There's plenty of jazz I'll skip.

So every once in a while I see a thing about how "honk if you like pizza" bumper stickers actually mean that the owner is jokingly saying they don't have to pay attention to claxons from other drivers because they can brush it off as someone announcing they like pizza.

But is this true?

Is saying "Joanna, fire" when someone is misogynistic too niche of a pop culture reference?
https://xkcd.com/322/

I get annoyed enough wearing just clothes and glasses and maybe a hat; I don't understand how someone can do that AND rings and a watch and chains and earrings

@kcdills Yes! You have a much more involved understanding of how things work in that case. I haven't done my own printing yet but shooting film in full automatic and doing development myself sure has been eye opening

Thanks to the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, "friend" is meaningless in this day and age. We need to use specific terms for specific types of relationships to prevent this getting any worse.

https://levisan.me/articles/what-is-friendship.html

I feel like the impressive-ness of computational photography is lost on those who didn't experience how hard taking a picture that has lighting that looks like how humans see the scene actually can be

Remember when people thought the EU and the Eurozone was going to usher in the Antichrist™?

Modern copyright and it's consequences has been a disaster for the human race https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343727/reviews/?ref_=tt_ururv_sm

Has no one retrofitted a lava lamp to use a heating coil and LED lighting instead of an incandescent bulb yet?

Does the cost of insuring certain choices cause you to consider different options? For example, would finding out that car insurance is cheaper if you park the vehicle in a garage instead of the drive make you consider building a garage?

Canadian friends, if you haven't already written to your MP about Bill C-22, do it today! https://dontsurveil.me/c22.html

I love it when people whinge about people who vote for something they don't think should be voted for and have a reasonably good justification for it

It's kind of wild that we used to store important information on a magnetic strip that we just kept in a pocket

@sabbatical This whole process is definitely a downside of the self-hosted small federated instance model

This is a fascinating idea and I think I'm in favour https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/president-nuclear-authority-kill-heart-fisher-protocol/