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A different social circle of mine has been sharing personal bingo cards so I might as well stick mine here as well.

My friend @ryan wrote about calculating real population density and it got me wondering why we don't just have one transit company in the Edmonton population centre levisan.me/articles/what-even-

"AI" doesn't create, it just regurgitates and meshes. Everyone's saying it like it's a bad thing but I don't think so?

"Talk about a recluse. He only comes out once a year, and he never catches any flak for it! Probably lives up there to avoid the taxes."

A feature request: when placing a video call and waiting for the recipient to answer, your video should already be being sent, so that the recipient can see you before answering.

Should a person who has grown up with a phrase or term, not knowing it's bad connotations or origin, be "grandfathered in" and be allowed to say it once the history comes to light?

Blows my mind that some people in the current year still don't understand that Costco's ethos isn't about selling things for the cheapest price

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

brb scrolling through about:config looking for interesting things, as one does

Here's your reminder that the Pilgrims™ were fleeing Dutch enculturation, not religious persecution, when they sailed across the Atlantic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims

The fact that Substack exists feels like a real failure of blogging.

https://ohryan.ca/?ema-post=14391

"I like everything but country or rap"

Oh yeah, really? Bet I can find something you don't like.

Fun: picked up the new Kodak Charmera for my wife

Not fun: probably shouldn't open it up before Christmas

The "10,000 hours" trope implies that most people won't become an expert in doing the dishes until they reach typical age of retirement.

The "friends" of mine that espouse things like "people spend too much time on their phones" and "social media isn't real relationships" and are, in other words, meatspace supremacists, are also the ones that put in the least amount of effort to connect with me—anywhere.

You're saying we need more real connections and here I am, connect with me.

I love it when a person's soshnet bio says something like "views my own" because then I know that their dumb takes are being shared out of their own free will and not because their employer is paying them to say them

Being over-scrupulous is one thing but I can't imagine being both over-scrupulous and believing that all gambling is morally wrong

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