It is, but I like the granularity of setting things up myself.

Whenever I’ve used it, it hasn’t felt like it’s mine.

Had the Steam Deck running Dreamcast stuff fine before I wiped it before (I thought) selling it, after I got the Ally X. Then changed my mind when I saw the market prices. :p

(The Wikipedia article for the Mandela Effect suggests that people mixed up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko, which I think is the likeliest explanation of the whole thing.)

The thread gets funnier as it goes, but this reminded me that in the 1980s and 1990s there was a lot of “secret information” about getting ahead that did not survive society’s transition to having easy access to search engines.

bsky.app/profile/crai...

This person.

www.the-berliner.com/books/eija-r...

First exposure to that particular desire-set was the webpage of the woman who claimed the Berlin Wall had been her husband for decades. (Think I saw that in the 1990s?)

But there’s a big distance between temporarily changing one’s vote and changing which ostensibly non-political long-term projects one advocates for.

The current situation has me voting very differently than my end-of-2014 self could have envisioned, with almost zero differences in my first principles. This is a big deal! (And a big source of personal crankiness.)

Post-script: a big question is, at what point does context come to be as important as text? If it always does, you’re in a Manichaen world forever.

There are clear times: the 1940 showdown with fascism, and the early Cold War confrontation with communism.

The current situation? Maybe!

A theoretically sound argument can become a shelter for malignant actors in a particular context, and that is one of Mike’s positions here (which I sympathize with).

Example:
A big peace movement in the context of a Cold War staredown between the liberal and totalitarian world was not neutral!

2/2

I never hit anyone, obviously, but the way those traffic signals are set don’t seem to have adjusted for the reality of more bicycle traffic.

Turning right from University to Elm (to park at lots on Murray for hospital row, when my dad was dying) was always a bit nerve-wracking because I’d be waiting for a break in pedestrians, finding it, and then RIGHT THEN a cyclist would inevitably be going full tilt towards the intersection.

It might be a mix of the way lights at Avenue/Davenport work plus giving pedestrians a scramble signal instead of walking at regular greens.

Masai’s going to be a hall of fame executive.

Rogers’ choice for the Jays turned out decently after all (Shapiro/Atkins), so it’s not all a loss, but we loved Masai and were privileged to have him for a decade. It’s his franchise.