We had a driver for a trip near London. The driver was driving quickly, but then slowed before getting to a speed-averaging camera checkpoint, saying how they weren’t going to catch him speeding.

I thought about it, I did. But I can’t justify that logic. If you can’t cross that line until a certain time (or else get a citation), then you’re not speeding unless you break that rule. If you speed up and then slow down to average-out your speed, you’re just driving bad, not saving time.

Anyways, I was just amused that they had a system that seemed more foolproof, and yet it wasn’t accomplishing its intended goal for this one driver. That was just one person, I know.

Commenting to boost this.

Good for MapQuest for making statements about these things, but don’t people know about Waze already?

I was impressed by how many categories I made about cheese.

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It seemed every cat I ever picked up was cool with cradling. Then for years it seemed like not one cat would put up with it. Now I have one who is more tolerant of scoop/cradle than of any other method. It just seemed weird that it kind of went different ways in phases for me. I thought it would be more random.

Was Last Action Hero good? I never saw it, but the soundtrack is loaded with 90s music.

Hmm, I don’t see how semicolons work in this sentence.

Marking up the sentence with extras to help visualize:

Buffalo-buffalo (who) Buffalo-buffalo (do) buffalo (in return also) buffalo (the other) Buffalo-buffalo.

A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts…

• Buffalo buffalo → other nouns qualified by adjectives
  • Foreign cars
  • Austin techbros
  • big money
• buffalo (verb) → other verbs
  • covet
  • cost

… would be:

Foreign cars Austin techbros covet cost big money.

(edit: I couldn’t quickly think of a location adjective for the last noun, which would have stuck to the pattern more closely, but “big” is still the same role, an adjective.)

Ok, but it’s also actually incorrect to call a plain cheese pizza “margherita”. And I learned that while in Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Margherita

Have you thought about installing a giant blur filter in front of your property so it matches the image? Or maybe a good artist can give it a faux blur with some paint and other effects?

Not every. Many have continuously existed long before the US. When establishing the US, you’ve got those major themes of separation of church and state and no taxation without representation. It naturally intersects that these actual religious organizations shouldn’t pay taxes if we don’t want the government getting into their business and vice versa. And there are plenty of those.

The tax loophole ones, on the other hand, that end up as memes–the ones with flying Santa and Super Mega Jesus™ with web 3.0 NFTs to fund the Salvation Aviation™–yeah, those are similarly ridiculed and rebuked by the real religious people. It’s not just atheists that call b.s. on those “churches”, it’s also churches.

Making valuable things in a professional setting is resume material for climbing to the position you want. If you have some mobility to seek other jobs (at the same or a different company), be sure you’re looking for a role in a team where you can contribute with what you know while learning things from the others.

Wasn’t meant that way. Meant it like, everyone slowly realizes how great the joke is, applause builds…

slow clap

Google Wave tried to replace email with a come-and-go / bulletin board / long-form chat kind of thing. I’d still like that for occasional things, like organizing holiday get-togethers with the family, but that has been the only time I think about using something like that.

For most personal communication that isn’t biz-to-biz, it’s chat nowadays. And the rooms/teams/channels concept (like IRC) is the main medium for what I used to want Waves to be. At least on Teams, it still supports more than just a “tweet”, and people can come and go on those threads, and depending on the service, you can pin messages, associate a wiki for persistent content, etc.

But all those still require people to be on that particular chat service.

Perhaps that’s the end result for personal and group communication. The format feels pretty right for the job, to me. I just hope it eventually morphs into a federated system like email and Lemmy, as I just don’t imagine everyone agreeing to sign up for yet another chat service every time someone else wants to start a group chat. Then instead of “did you add so-and-so to the group chat”, we’d just pivot the problem to “oh, we were discussing this on the Slack group, but on the Teams group someone else said blah blah…”. Same problem–fragmentation.

I don’t have all week.

Thank you!!

You’re making sure not to add any acidic ingredients until they’re fully cooked? That’ll stop the cooking.

Besides that, I think age matters.

To ignore is always willful, isn’t it?

But I think one of the examples I picked has finally talked me out of this. I would happily use “vacant” to also describe a place that has never been occupied, so it didn’t require vacating to be vacant. In that case, vacate means to make vacant, not vice versa. I’ll apply that to ignore/ignorant, and I think I finally understand how people have been so comfortable with that definition.

I like this take!

I cope by just being a little extra specific when I can find the words to do so, like calling out botanically squash are fruits and mushrooms are fungi, while culinarily they work as veggies.

“Ignorant” does mean wilfully ignorant. It doesn’t just mean uninformed.

To be vacant is to have been vacated.

To be an applicant is to have applied.

To be a claimant is to have made a claim.

And to be ignorant is to have ignored something.

(Of course, not all “-ant” words seem to stand alone without their suffix–at least, not in today’s vernacular. Does an arrogant person arrog? Does a fragrant flower frag? Rob Words might have more to say about the vestigial origins of some of these.)

Can’t wait to learn how I might just be ignorant about this (by my definition or the “real” one).