allan 📊 @allan

This, on how whips break the sound barrier, is amazing https://youtu.be/AnaASTBn_K4

You keep thinking "wow, it can't get nerdier than this" and then it gets nerdier. 🤓

@bgcarlisle the admin of my instance has been working towards this possibility iirc. Maybe he knows things?
@thurloat

@ink_slinger did you burn down your house? even after we explicitly told you not to?

@ink_slinger @Supernova I am definitely not a mops his brow when he barely breaks 100 kind of bowler and I resent the implication

@ink_slinger @Supernova and here I can't manage any trick shots. I just bowl strike after strike. It's really quite dull.

@ink_slinger @Supernova maybe you'll recapture the magic of that night when you ricocheted the ball out of the gutter and into the ball return. Turning what would have been a gutter ball into a do-over.

@GeoffWozniak or how busy you are.

Because my desk isn't a pile of garbage I mustn't be doing anything with my day.

@GeoffWozniak I don't print things unnecessarily thus I must be in the midst of a full on mental health crisis.

There's a lot of projecting of one's own anxieties going on here.

I keep a particularly tidy office and I get a lot of shit from my coworkers that my office is too tidy. They take it as a personal attack. Really.

I don't care how tidy or not their workspace is. You do you. I happen to like my workspace sparse and tidy.

So when people get all up in arms about how tidiness is oppressive. Like. Grow up. Learn to love who you are and the spaces you inhabit instead of taking it out on the rest of us.

So Marie Kondo has a show on Netflix where she helps people tidy things. This has naturally lead to a lot of complaining online from people, for various reasons, but one that has always annoyed me is the complaint about time.

There are always folks who will whine that they neither have the time nor the inclination to tidy their homes and this Marie Kondo is full of shit and useless. Like really. It's not fucking magic.

also it was for a very small loan to carry me through the last semester of my degree then I paid it back ASAP.

I only keep financial records for 7 years, which I believe is the rule for tax purposes. Since this loan was over and done with longer than 7 years ago I'm...probably not going to get my $60 compensation for mental anguish (or whatever that's supposed to cover)

@keithzg @ink_slinger yes, this. People treat tofu like a meat substitute all the time, which it very much is not. It is really in no way like meat.

Also lots of people don't know how to cook it and end up over-cooking it into something resembling a sponge.

Whereas the tofu in kitsune udon is the best thing in the world and I will fight you.

I got a thing in the mail, apparently I am owed money by the guvment.

Years ago the national student loan service lost a hard drive full of information on loan applicants, including me, and now they've finally worked their way through the court system and I can get a lump sum payment of $60 for the loss of my personal info.

This is all relating to a loan I got in..2005? I don't have any documentation from that far back. Uhh..

@ink_slinger I went over this with my boss and she figured, based on the Canada food guide, that a single chicken thigh was more than enough protein to meet the daily recommended allowance.

It is kind of absurd.

@ink_slinger I think the "replace meat" approach leads to really unbalanced meals too.

There's this weird food-myth amongst meat eaters that we all need lots and lots of protein in our diet, and that plants don't have any outside of like chickpeas and tofu. This leads to meals that are absurdly dense with soy or whatever protein super-food and end up just culinary train wrecks.

I was going for some tongue-in-cheek millennial millenarianism. I can't decide if I should fill this out into something more or incinerate it on the pyre of my unsentimentalism.

I'm leaning towards the later because I honestly have too much paper floating about my apartment.

I've been sorting out all my notebooks into "keep" and "burn" piles and I found a little one-page essay I wrote a while back on the apocalypse and fomo.

The gist of it is that we all live in a state of fomo, and the vast future history of mankind, thousands of years of stuff happening after we die, is an unendurable fomo.

Eschatological fantasies are our way of conquering this. We will never miss out on things again if there are no things in the future.

@ink_slinger Costco sells a black bean burger that isn't bad. But I tend to think trying to replicate the taste of meat is a waste of time, there are a lot more interesting things you can do with a burger if the patty doesn't have to taste like beef.

Also I think the worst way to try and go meatless is to try a meal you normally eat but with the meat replaced with a substitute. It's setting yourself up for failure.

I mean I use it during meetings when I haven't brought my laptop and can't look in the various databases we have.

But I also use it a fair bit when stuck at train crossings or wherever and I just want to know what's in the rail cars passing by. You can look things up by UN number (the number on the warning placards on trucks and rail cars).

Basically nothing it does couldn't be achieved with google, but the app works offline so huzzah!