Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

I would never say that for me to consider you a friend, you must interact with me in certain methods (such as on a certain social media platform or inviting me to certain events) but it sure does make it easier for me to feel friendly when you do

What will land acknowledgements look like a half millennium after Earth is colonised by aliens?

Paying per sms message was wild
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/166/

My favourite descriptor of a "middle class" neighbourhood is place where residents are okay with packages being left in sight of the street

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If your contract of employment doesn't specify you need to be accessible, you don't have to be accessible

I don't understand how people can confuse "Dutch" and "Danish". I don't hold it against them but I sure do want to sometimes.

Reminder that Casey Neistat is the GOAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

Clothing brands selling what basically amounts to brand-swag for fake, made up brands is maybe the weirdest thing ever. I'd rather spend money on something that actually shows off a thing I like!

If it's not ships and crews raiding other ships on the high seas, it's not piracy, it's just sparkling grey areas of what counts as theft

Life hack: I set new tabs to open directly to the right of the current tab, instead of at the far end and my productivity has gone up tenfold.

Dutch has the best drink abbreviations:

esma (espresso martini)

baco (bacardi & cola)

gito (gin & tonic)

Bonus: afko is short for afkorting, the Dutch equivalent of saying abbreev instead of abbreviation

If I'm understanding the Space Liability Convention correctly, if one of Elon's rockets were to crash on my house and kill me, my family would have to petition the government to petition the US government to charge SpaceX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Liability_Convention

Without looking it up, do you know the linguistic origin of the word "honcho"?
(As in "head honcho")

I learned the correct etymology after being in a group that assumed it was similar to "poncho"

Sometimes it seems like the transition from "town built around main thoroughfare" to "town next to main thoroughfare" has been a make-or-break moment for city planning

If all lending with interest is usury because it's lending something and expecting more in return, then all anti-usury people need is a "lending" option that includes something silly in exchange for the interest. The lender needs to give something intangible along with the funds, paid for with a payment schedule calculated the same way interest is calculated. For example, Bo loans Jo $5000 along with a high five. Jo pays Bo 12 monthly payments of $425.75. Now that was an expensive high five, but it's no longer usury. Because of how silly that sounds, I don't think it's accurate to say all interest is usury.