Levi Breederland @levisan@social.cleverlibre.org

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/

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

Here's a wild idea: how about the municipality takes responsibility for keeping the sidewalks that it installs — and maintains in the summer months! — for the sake of the people who travel on them instead of guilting the townsfolk into helping people so they don't get fined?

Did some back-of-the-napkin maths and it might require a town budget increase of 3-4% to have them cover the cost of keeping sidewalks usable. I'd be fine with that.

Maybe I should write to the mayor and ask if they've considered it.

Long shot but who wants to dox themselves so I can send them a 35mm film canister opener? I have an extra one. Message me.

#ibelieveinfilm

Separate houses being built so close together that they can’t have facing windows does not make any sense to me

We have visual interfaces and we have tactile interfaces even though they are usually just tactile things to enhance the visual, but we don't have very many audio interfaces and we should have more them

I'm willing to bet that if we banned the use of leaf blowers for clearing snow, the ability to travel through urban environments without a car would not be worse than it currently is.

New Hunger Games prequel movie: 2/5.
Meh story (spoiled by knowing what happens in the trilogy).
Way too many wide-angle closeup shots.

I had high hopes.

I don't care if it's A Thing, holding a microphone half the size of one's finger on camera is dumb.

TFW a person markets themselves as a "social media wiz" and 4/5 of their tweets have a dozen hashtags, some of which have nothing to do with the content they're posting.

It’s fascinating to think that until we have interplanetary diaspora or a major global disaster, we will never have the boundaries between cultures like we did in the past.

For a moment I thought my niece was learning the political compass