endless scrolling has killed off measuring Discourse™ in pages

CW: AI/LLM discourse

I find it funny that the 5 paragraph essay went from being the gold standard of school argumentative essays to being "this is probably slop"

that said I don't think I've ever read a 5 paragraph essay? like even in school

it's funny how much time they spend closing brackets in the SICP lectures
(not that much, but still noticeable)

causing americans to explode by explaining the bloc quebecois to them

the funny thing about facebook/instagram banning news in canada is that, anything that looks like news that's still on those platforms is *not* news and probably misinformation

I find prop 65 warnings in french funny, because it's a product of Quebec and California's laws, but neither region requires it

if people walked around like players in video games did, the world would be a much more interesting place

also how the hell did people write tweets with 140 characters when I had trouble fitting mine in 300

I have recently (re?)discovered friday night funkin - some notes:
- there's no inherent way to arrange up/down arrows on a horizontal line; as someone who grew up in a place where people drive on the left I'm used to seeing the up arrow to the left. However, FNF uses the opposite (1/4)

we should start using kibimetres and kibigrams

I need to know what bed sizes actual kings and queens typically use and I found absolutely nothing on google

[71 O] the mediocre brentwood

[71 I] sticking "I bought this before trump went crazy" stickers on my amazonbasics batteries

[71 Q] do people actually use threads

`71 O` 13:12

`27 S` bsky seems way more public than fedi so I gotta be careful

`71 S` engagement bait: arrays should start at 1 except in languages with pointer arithmetic

`71 Q` how do I :neowrench_woozy2: react on bluesky