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“Some of my friends and I have jokingly called this the inverse law of democracy: the more often the term "People" appears in a country's name, the less the country cares about its people. In the case of the DPRK, the word "people" appears thrice, once in Greek, once in Latin, once in English.” – Jörg W Mittag [[https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60190/how-is-north-korea-democratic-if-theres-only-one-party-with-one-ideology#:~:text=Some%20of%20my%20friends%20and%20I%20have%20jokingly%20called%20this%20the%20inverse%20law%20of%20democracy:%20the%20][Source]]

XKCD, as brilliant as always https://xkcd.com/2385/

Who is signing up for a newsletter the moment they open a website for the first time? Newsletters should be suggested after the completion of a satisfied task, like a transaction or at the bottom of search results

Why does every highstreet retailer have the same crappy website design. No, I don’t want to page through the results 10 items at a time. Just give me everything. It shouldn’t take that long — this is pretty static content — should be easily cacheable.

My vacuum cleaner should have its filters cleaned every 5 empties. Who is going to remember to do that? Could they really not have included a tiny battery that trickle-charges when it’s being used and once it’s full simply lights an LED? Surely that would be a big UX improvement for an inconceivably small additional cost

As homage to all ye across the pond on this momentous day, I’m going to try making some American biscuits

London is so expensive, it’s own government is moving out…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/03/sadiq-khan-confirms-london-city-hall-move-royal-docks

The most autumnal smell is, without doubt, radiator-baked dust

So Feedly has ads now… just great.

Smartphones are objectively badly designed. Name another product that we all near universally agree needs protecting in plastic and leather, but the companies continue to sell made from metal and glass

The best one I’ve ever seen done is on the benefits of polished concrete

Am just listening to the Soft Skills Engineering podcast and a game I recommend is Slideshow Karoke — which I’ve played at hackathons — where people have to present a random PowerPoint found online as if they’ve spent hours preparing.

If anyone wants to share this on the birdsite, then feel free

Someone in the Harry Potter universe really needs to invent a pair of enchanted notebooks to allow for instantaneous communication — it’s absurd that people can literally teleport but can’t communicate faster than a flying owl