Christopher ooooOOOOOoooooooo

Absolutely zero doubt where he was born & raised & lives, I love it. Acting schools should archive this for educational purposes

A link

miesfelds.com/bratwurst

It's dry out there

it isn't too different from a regional dialect map, is it

Conservatives are fucking children

and Dairy moose vs. [venison but with moose] moose

We ... we could've had Montreal smoked meat and poutine on every street corner? Cabanes a sucre every spring??!?

Tabarnac

the current status is reported here nasstatus.faa.gov , and if you scroll down to the bottom & click the "View Full Operations Plan" then that next page shows all the current staffing triggers, in UTC/GMT/Zulu time. Those three letter sites starting with 'Z' are regional traffic control centers

They've already slowed down regional traffic on both coasts in the last few days because of staffing issues. There will certainly be random really bad airspace days in the near future

I used to take the CoachUSA bus to ORD once in a while and it was more comfortable and quieter than any flight I've ever been on. Not sure if you still can but you used to be able to park free for up to 2 weeks at their place on S 13th

It's a fascinating rock, it starts out as chunks of the Earth's mantle

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credit: this Lingthusiasm podcast ep bsky.app/profile/ling...

Gretchen: When you say this in a sentence, people will sometimes give you a double take, but they will understand you. Like, “Oh, yeah, I’m just gonna get the acoustic bicycle because the electric bicycle is on the fritz,” and they’re like, “Acoustic? Oh.” Lauren: It’s wild that that is actually – is “acoustic” gonna become productive do you think? Gretchen: Well, this is the thing. I put this on Bluesky because I was so entertained by it, and a number of people got very mad at me because they’re like, “This can’t possibly be the word for it. We should call it an ‘analog bicycle’.” But I was like, the other one isn’t a digital bicycle. An “e-bike” is not the same as a “digital bike.” A digital bike is one you ride in a videogame. Some people were saying a “manual bike,” but technically “manual” means with the hands. And if there’s one thing you don’t use for a bike typically, it is the hands. A hand-operated bike is an entirely different object. These exist. But the typical bike is not that. Lauren: But also, manual cars only got called “manual cars” because we invented automatic transmission. This is just a series of revelations for me. Gretchen: Yeah. But my favourite responses are the ones that were like, “All right. If ‘acoustic’ is productive now, I guess that means I have an acoustic toothbrush.” Lauren: How retro of you. Gretchen: It’s not an electric toothbrush. I think it’s so silly and so surprising. “Bicycle” has gone through this specifically several times because the current bicycles that we have with two wheels of equal size, when they were introduced, they were called “safety bicycles” because they were easier to handle than the earlier dominant style which had one large wheel and one small wheel. Lauren: Like a “penny farthing” or something like that. Gretchen: Well, “penny farthing” is a retronym because – Lauren: No! Gretchen: [Laughs] Those first got called an “ordinary bicycle,” much like a “standard transmission,” and then they’re really not the…

I'd never heard (or maybe noticed) the term 'acoustic bike' until I listened to a linguistics podcast two days ago that told me it's an example of a retronym

Amazing the effects they got with airbrushes back in the day

Or, alternatively, spiriting, when you're a Milwaukeean

and a refugee, in his childhood

ah, that explains everything

I can't tell whether the thread is parody or self-parody

Most of the other legumes and clovers do that too

In August, when I was kind of a wreck after taking my cat friend of 13 years to be euthanized, I sat on a park bench overlooking Lake Michigan for an hour to settle down and a friendly little jumping spider came by and hopped around on my hand for a while. #emotionalSupportSpood s are real

Seems like every time we buy a Keyence version of something other manufacturers make, the Keyence model ends up being a decade ahead of what everyone else has. Their safety light curtains are fantastic

Keyence makes so many amazing things, I use their factory automation stuff every day

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"Hattie Wall" I hope, but I'm possibly asking too much

YouTube video by keith172 Rosebud Frozen Peas

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