Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Me checking in on CBC, 1941, colourised

I'm not a fan of marketing "the community" as a promo of donating to a post-consumption-donation product

After 24 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 that I am recording here to look up in two years.

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

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

We shouldn't be talling 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.

You encounter a situation with no dress code or social expectations.

It's too warm to comfortably wear both long sleeves and trousers, and two cool for both short sleeves and shorts.

Do you opt for short sleeves or shorts?

Idea: get the loved ones of a person who has dementia to put their speech into a voice "AI", so that if they aren't contactable (or dead) the person with dementia can still "call" them and thus the caretakers can avoid a frusterated patient

It would be so hard to be a speaker of second language and then get all your emails caught in spam filters

Could someone please tell me what the benefit of Tetra-pak drink containers are?

That does it, I’m going to have to start walking around with a pair of secateurs and giving myself the headroom I need to not take a detour onto the lawn.

Being tall is hard and I wouldn’t normally complain but these are dropping down to block the path of even the shortest of adults now.

Surely there can’t be legal repercussions for me doing a little trimming, right?

While stats on numbers of people joining a religious group are interesting, I would find it more interesting to see stats on the number of people dying while in alignment with their sect

An Orthodox perspective on the concept of a pre-tribulation rapture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0ocjL88OU

Hearing other people gossip about the slightest thing that someone has shared about their personal life sure makes me never want to share my own life with people

Every once in a while I have the thought that I wouldn't hate being vegetarian. And then I grill a steak.

I'm very curious what municipalities might do if pressured by people with electric cars who do not have on-property parking at their homes

Is there a rule name (in the style of “Dvorak’s Law” or “Hanlon’s Razor”) for the idea that “the encryption wasn’t compromised, rather there was a man on the inside”?

Dutch punk, social media, and perfection https://buttondown.email/levisan/archive/116/

Some wild product design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaIx0KMOg5I

I've had multiple people call me "an old soul" over the years and I've never understood what they meant by that

Demanding nuance and offending Friends Lite in one fell swoop

https://levisan.me/articles/working-on-my-own-definitions-for-certain-types-of-relationships.html

Sometimes I wish I had always spoke Dutch to my dog so that I could yell whatever and anyone who hears wouldn’t associate it with the person they might have said hi to earlier on the sidewalk