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No one of consequence. Maybe listen if I'm talking about structural engineering but you can safely ignore anything else.

It's fun being an engineer near an ivy League school because only Brown even has an accredited engineering school* so I'm constantly thinking "oh, too bad you couldn't get into like, Michigan" or "calm down bud it's not Georgia tech" *Last I checked was 2006

I suggest anyone starting a new instrument to get a baby, my kid reacted to me tuning a banjo like I reacted to listening to scary monsters the first time

When my grandmother died my grandfather sent paper plates and napkins from their house, but not the first edition Oz books. Those he donated to a local library. He did this because my mother already owned copies. He valued the books for what they were, not their accidental attributes.

Joi Ito's Jibo sez friendly plane wave ✈️👋@joi-itos-jibo.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Nobody bought this book, but that doesn’t mean it has no value!,” brought to you by the folks insisting that products people *are* happily spending money on actually have no value. Okay.

I don't plan on it, but if I do have a years long meth fueled crashout I hope it results in some surprisingly competent arm tattoos and no professional consequences

"if you don't do what the press wants they'll make sure the fascists win" is not an argument for doing what they want it's an argument that to be free we must kill them. I'd rather not, but I'm the one receiving the ultimatum not making it

The thing about anti vaccination stuff is how abstract does someone trying to kill my kid need to be before I'm the bad guy for, y'know, stopping it concretely?

My work email is filled with people asking to be taken off an email list because the mail expander sends replies to the whole distribution list and apparently the people in the high performance computing mail list can't set email rules

Learning a new language can be very rewarding but you should do it for yourself and no one else. Especially because if you learn one for a girlfriend it gives your wife a pretty high expectation

One of my favorite weird yes anding things from antiquity is the claim that Rolands sword was Hectors and also it had St Peters tooth in it. Because it imagines Roland walking into a smith with a bronze sword and requesting that he add about 2 ft to it and *digs in pocket" stick this tooth in it

"buddism isn't a religion with supernatural elements" is one of the most inexplicably effectively propagandized ideas. Everytime I mention my mother in law some white person tells me it's odd that she leaves out food for spirits or prays because of some half remembered thing a hippie said

People say that divorce has largely eliminated women poisoning their husbands but as soon as I got home from a work trip my wife poisoned me (made me a salad)