Levi Breederland @levisan@social.cleverlibre.org

Gotta love it when you look like you don't care about people because they forget to invite you to things

TIL there's a permanent weather buoy at 0°N 0°E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

Here, have a correlation https://tylervigen.com/spurious/random

Time for more clickable links involving space, war, and Lego https://buttondown.email/levisan/archive/71/

By some definitions, WWI was fought, in part, on Canadian soil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917#Quebec_Easter_riots_and_the_end_of_the_war

@magicalthinking aha perfect, another one for my list!

Working on my annoyingly-specific definitions for different types of relationships.

For someone to be an acquaintance of mine, do they have to consider me an acquaintance (or closer) as well?

Sometimes I just want to build a survey asking for opinions on a smattering of topics just so I can keep tabs on what friends think about those things.

People who shoot photos of random stuff and think your work is half decent… do you ever sell prints of your photos?

If so, do you have thoughts/tips/suggestions?

If not, why not?

What a year it's been

@harvhat I am working on a letter to the mayor to see. I’d like to know if it’s been considered and if they’ve done an estimate… there’s other similar towns around here that take care of it all so it’s not a completely foreign concept

@harvhat if I were more friendly with the neighbours, I’d love to do something like have a pool of kids who are paid to do the whole block. I don’t mind shoving myself, but there’s always that one guy who doesn’t shovel and I’d rather have consistency along the street.

That being said, I’m guessing it would be a 3-4% increase to the budget to do all the sidewalks. They already own equipment for it. But I don’t believe they actually care enough to see if it’s feasible.

Why does the town put sidewalks in residential areas? Presumably so residents are more comfortable going places without a car.

Why does the town shave off bits of sidewalk that have buckled, making the path smooth yet again? Presumably to make it easier to walk when unstable or using wheeled assist-devices.

Why does the town not clear sidewalks? Well, you see, residents can shovel their own snow and we threaten to fine them if they don't.

What about those people for whom we keep sidewalks smooth and safe? Well that's too bad.

Why doesn't the town clear all sidewalks? That would increase property taxes, and taxpayers wouldn't like that. Oh okay so it's my fault.

Fully distributed blogging/microblogging/social media solves the "freedom of speech not freedom of reach" issue

My latest list of links you're likely to like https://buttondown.email/levisan/archive/66/

@mike I should be specific and point out I haven’t tried any paid ones because I’m a cheapskate.

I was using Metatext (and tried a bunch maybe a year ago) and it’s fine, but this feels very “current” in how it looks/behaves compared to iOS tendencies

People are so willing to point out that a daddy longlegs is not a spider but afraid to argue that a tomato is a fruit

New favourite Mastodon client on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884

@freemo that makes me wonder if quicker deadlines and harsher penalties would make a difference. Anyway, I’m writing to the mayor to find out how much they really care