I think Blackadder aged pretty well.

https://emaildebtforgiveness.me/

TIL, thanks!

I’m confused, what is horseshoe in this context?

So, well, they’re on substack so I guess that’s better, shame it’s not @index@activitypub.ghost.org

Source but IG ugh, someone got a message to them asking for fediverse posts? https://www.instagram.com/thisecommercelife/

Heartbeats.

Original by The Knife,

cover by José González.

Same words, same melody, completely different universes.

I love this in general, unfortunately for me my dad is a retired network engineer 😫

Hmm, tripped me up too, but I assumed it was the extra “'s”, i.e. it should be :“that went away”.

A bit meta: That people who were wrong or mistaken about something just needed it explaining more clearly, and then they would stop saying things which are wrong or mistaken.

I wasted far too many years of my life trying to convince father-in-law of so many things, only to realize there is nothing that can be said to disabuse him. The problem wasn’t the lack of facts or clarity of explanation, it’s that he is fundamentally incapable of acquiring new information if it’s inconsistent with his prior understanding or belief.

Moreover I realized that where I am ashamed of being inaccurate or uneducated about something (and so am keen to correct myself), for him it’s always the case that I must be wrong or mistaken, because he can never be wrong or mistaken.

If you have 20 minutes to spare this video really helped clear it up for me.

It might seem unrelated at first, but bonds will be discussed approx. 5 minutes in, and the preceding parts helps lay the groundwork.

I’d later come to understand this is called Modern monetary theory.

Until lemmy gold is a thing please have these medals, I wish I could offer more: 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

When I was much younger: that normal people could see much further than me.

One of my oldest memories is going into a McDonald’s for the first time with glasses; I stopped and read the entire menu, because I couldn’t believe normal people could read it as soon as you walked in. I always had to get up to the counter to make it out.

I got a lot better in school after that!

Alas I sold my soul to VSCode a long time ago.

Also, ew, emacs 😝

Well played 👏👏

I guess I just got, recurse rolled?

Amazing. OC?

Being a content creator.

Yes yes, combined with git add -P makes small, meaningful commits so much easier.

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/calendars has entered the chat.

Forgive me for only TLDW and not watching, but was ack mentioned?

I’ve never looked back.