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We’d love to, but manufacturers keep trying to force them down our throats.

…that’s not where they’re supposed to go…

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…i use base 12 every day; it’s fantastically useful and foundational to civilisation for good reason…

East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

…i shop women’s shoes when i can; they generally offer a much wider selection…

…i was going to say 16 ⅔ feet based on 1 ½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close…

…it’s how you imagine people look or it’s what you imagine people look like, but not both…

TIL!

…i also had no idea aluminised tetrapacks were recyclable; always figured composite materials were dead-end landfill fodder…

(the changeover wasn’t entirely in the sixties, though: as a kid, we used to peel cartons open and scrape off the wax for craft projects clear into the early eighties, never realised the packaging had changed prior to the advent of plastic screw-tops)

…typically they’re coated with food-grade wax…

beep-beep-beep-beep! beep. beep.

…when i trained as a rescue diver, i learned that it’s not drowning unless you die: if you survive, it’s a near-drowning…

…two-thirds a dram of scotch whisky…

…that typeface is fire…

…problem is there are enough imperial f*ckheads ready to dogpile on any virtue signal du jour…

…for fine drafting, rotation is the last thing you want: that chisel-tip is precious, lead holders are love, lead holders are life…

…with some clever geometry, it could be sized for metric-integer weight, length, and volume…

…those are some tiny potatoes or ginormous bananas in either case…

…recursive eisenhower method works well for me: it’s effective + simple-enough not to be bogged-down by overplanning…

…pretty much this: you’ll be fined for anything other than well-groomed grass growing in your yard…