sibachian

Forecast says sun, window says rain.

the people still on reddit after the 30th when the third party apps close down, i personally believe can stay there indefinitely. these people, and i, do not exist on the same wavelength.

tesla has a dog nose and it annoys the crap out of me. how does a dog nose connect to the invention of electricity in any way? it’s not thematic at all. should have been a tesla coil.

Mistborn second series just wrapped up recently. Eagerly awaiting the third series so we can get on with Stormlight part 2 (where the two series merges into one. there is only one book left in Stormlight part 1, and release is expected next year i think).

anything by Brandon Sanderson, especially his Cosmere stuff. Light reads despite density, story gets complex under the hood once you realize what’s going on in the greater Cosmere universe glimpsed through the various book series.

they didn’t really try. it’s more of a suggestion (and still is). metric is standard in the US within science, just not among regular folks because commercially it’s not as dramatic, i.e. news stations dramatize 100F!!! since it sounds way more dramatic than 38°C. if the news and commercial products started using metric, people would quickly switch over.

unfortunately a lot of imperial shit has started migrating to europe due to chinese products being produced for the US market and then sold in europe as an afterthought using imperial units.