Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

"All our houseplants are doing really well"

Wondered if BRICS+ was their streaming offering at first

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

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.

We need a formalised taxonomical nomenclature to properly discuss cuisine

I don't know if taking the dip containers at a restaurant or is actually stealing or not but it does remind me that if they don't want me to take them they really should give me a way to take my dip home.

This was originally composed as a speech-to-text note ending with "…take my dick home"

I am once again reminded that while stats about people joining a religion are interesting, in the case of religions that push the idea of some post-death benefits to those in the right state at death, stats on the number of followers dying would be more beneficial to see if you want to show how well a religion is doing over time at propagating their message.

I find it wild that there’s places in the world where you aren’t allowed to record a conversation without everyone’s consent

I find it wild that there’s places in the world where you aren’t allowed to record a conversation without everyone’s consent

I don't think I'd want to live in a "55+ community" or something like that when I'm older. I don't see why I'd want to exclude the young whippersnappers.

there’dn’t’ve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkZyZFa5qO0

So many idioms are based on normal aspects of life when the expression was coined, but are still in use after that thing is no longer normal.

What are some expressions that you grew up with that made sense at the time, but your kids and grandkids will not understand without it being explained to them? "Stay tuned" comes to mind.

TIL “lactose free” products—those ones with added lactase—are actually lactose free because the lactase did its thing before you drank it. I was unsure if that was the case or if the added lactase did the job when you consume it.

How many Spiel des Jahres games have you played?

Do you ever fill out a captcha, fail, and think "oh, I interpreted the instructions too much like a computer would?"

Do you ever fill out a captcha, fail, and think "oh, I interpreted the instructions too much like a computer would?"

Starting a list of weird rules that seem counterintuitive because after I learned that there's places in which it's illegal to record a conversation you are having without informing the other parties, now I'm learning that there's places where it's illegal to photograph public art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama

I have no interest in a "coffee replacement"

Get me an espresso replacement and we can talk.

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