As I understand it, a carbon credit is what you get when someone goes “hey you just made a ton of carbon you gotta make a tree to clean it up” and that guy makes him shut up by giving him a picture of a tree.

Amazing. I predict that bonkers Quebecois acts will make a strong showing.

Canada is in Eurovision??

The US is not a signatory to most (any?) of the UN conventions on human rights. It has never been a leader in this realm.

“That’s not Fair Isle, it’s stranded colourwork” is a correction I make often. “No, that’s Icelandic. No, that’s Bohus.” Etc. Terminology matters!

that some very key elements were missing, and yet this woman sounded so calm and confident about her statement. What a strange thing that her contribution to the conversation was this entirely wrong statement.

Those are the parts that actually do the spinning, and without them you’ve got nothing. Also, this wheel is completely missing the tread assembly, so the only way you can turn the wheel is with your hand. anyone who knows even a bit about spinning wheels would see quickly

She asked if I knew how to spin, and I told her that I did. Then she gestured at the wheel and said “well, it looks like it has all its parts, so that’s good.” Reader, at the moment she gestured, the front & back maidens, the flyer, bobbin, and whorl were in my bag and she couldn’t have seen them.

Right? Like, if you spend a bunch of time following sparks of curiosity to new dopamine hits of answered questions and more sparks, you’re learning in the most joyful way! Keep doing that! And have a bowl of trail mix beside you.

“First I was full of peanut butter, but now I’m full of RAGE, how DARE you, I wasn’t done! A plague on your…oh man I don’t feel good.”

At least this way you know what you hit?

Ottawa had streetcars?! What happened to that kind of forward-thinking?

We don’t. We also don’t know that a magic fairy isn’t psychically beaming every thought into our brain. And I can’t prove that there isn’t a global asparagus conspiracy. You can’t prove a negative.

I’m telling you, sometimes you have to just enjoy the season of absurdity. It’s like the leaves falling in autumn, it’s just gotta happen.

Sucks, buddy.

That makes sense.

“Dye”??! Like, it’s gonna stain?

Some things belong very much to a time in a place, and should absolutely stay there. Do not intrude upon my present with these silly things.