Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

If you want a shelter to be accessible and feel like the best option for a person who is trying to pick the least-bad option, you put it somewhere well-connected by not-car transportation.

Anything other than that and you get a ghost town or a prison.

It’s kind of great that North Americans finally got around to sparkling water being a normal thing to have at gatherings and stuff, even if it’s Bubly

FIFO works great for me 95% of the time, except for when someone follows up to their original email and bumps it _lower_ in the queue.

Aside from two people, every person that one might consider to be a friend of mine is a relationship built on another relationship. If those other relationships end, I don't know how long the friendships would last.

What format are your kids' school-provided email addresses?
Something reasonably guessable or with random numbers, etc?

Doing some research for work. Do share the format if you wish.

I don’t think I can take seriously anyone who has the knowledge of how to use an em dash properly but lacks the knowledge to type it

Has a Ph.D., still types "--"

In which I shill for a friend https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/176/

Groups that purport to care about what happens to a person after they die and require people them to take action before they die for the sake of that should not brag about how many people join their group, but how many people die in what is believed to be the right state

For example, a Christian group counting new members is fine. "New member count is trending up year over year" is a beneficial stat. I won't disagree there, especially if they're one that believes non-members aren't saved*

but if the goal is salvation then the stat you should be bragging about is people dying while in a state of getting th Eternal Reward™

New member count can trend up but if those people apostatise before they die, what difference does it make?
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*If they don't believe non-members aren't saved, then they really shouldn't be bragging about the new members who are already saved, if their goal is in fact salvation and not their own member count but that's another rant for another day.

I don't like small talk, but that doesn't mean I don't like talking about the weather.

I don’t understand how “free speech” has to be more complicated than “no one can suppress what you want to express it causes problems, you’ll be held liable”

Started listening to this expecting it would sound fairly like the original but NOPE it was so much better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re6hXsgFbDU

Every month or so I listen to this live rendition of House of the Rising Sun as a reminder of how great music can be if everyone involved actually cares about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K0QN8xy1kM

I think that, because for a chunk of my adult life, freelancing made up a decent portion of my income, friends and non-work contacts seem to avoid discussing topics that would weigh in on a professional level with me.

I don’t know if it is an intentional thing or not, but now that I am not attempting to make money in a freelance way, I really like it when people ask me what would have been a work related question, either just because they’re curious, or need help, or even something related to their own business…

But it seems that only contacts/friends that I have made since I transitioned away from freelancing are willing to do that and the other, pre-existing contacts are quite content it seems with making ill-advised decisions regarding technology right in front of my face and I don’t feel comfortable pointing it out to them

I love it when people give a disclaimer that you shouldn't be an idiot and assume the worst about them

I find it rather annoying when people parrot privacy/etc concerns about a company or product they refuse to use—however valid they may be—while simultaneously being ignorant of equally concerning issues with things they do use.

Blindly boycotting is just as annoying as being a fanboy.

Been using this for the last 24 hours and it gets the Levi Stamp of Approval with the caveat that I’ve only been using it for the last 24 hours. The built-in command line tools installed along with the GUI means you can automate it with Shortcuts and/or cron to your heart’s content.
https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery

The idea that someone might feel slighted by me because they think I don't like them but in actuality I'm just an awkward person to be around sometimes annoys me

I'm sure that solar panel setups can be legit but the door-to-door sales of them sure make them feel sketchy to me.

Brain Surgery Anniversary Day! https://levisan.me/articles/brain-surgery-anniversary-day.html

"Because one day, whoever keeps feeding us Scissor statements is going to release one of the bad ones."

"Tell your friends and relatives not to discuss politics or society. If they slip up, break off all contact."

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/