Dat gap

I've got three cats. You just learn to look down everywhere you go and never walk backwards.

Clothing stores are the worst. I love responding to "what's your phone number?" With "no thank you".

This is an example of kenopsia, not a liminal space.

I've been taking notes religiously at work for years. So many notes. I have gone through dozens of note pads over the years. I recently switched from paper to Microsoft To Do. Works great for my purposes since I'm on my computer most of the time anyway. No more bulky note pads with disorganized chicken scratch.

My town actually has a square. It's nice to have.

I built a shoe rack during the pandemic. It actually turned out great, it's way better than something from IKEA. It was indeed 2-3x the cost of an equivalent thing from IKEA if you consider all the tools and stuff I had to buy though.

The batteries are not soldered even in the newest Samsung phones. Everything you'd want to replace is modular. Not sure about Apple.

I think people who would say that might recognize Nirvana as more of a gen z fashion brand than an actual band. Like they know it's a band but the first assumption is that's not the driver of anyone's interest in it.

I disagree that it was just "slave holding states". This is obvious to us, maybe, but when presenting the issue to non Americans I think it's important to be accurate on this. It was meant to give states (slave holding or not) with lower populations a larger voice. It still does that. Our system of government was never meant to be a pure democracy. The president wouldn't have to care about the priorities of smaller population states at all without the electoral college. They would just have to trust that he'll keep them in mind.

With all that said though, with how homogenous the county is culturally and with communication and travel barriers between states and between the state and federal governments pretty much non existent, at this point I think it has outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. Also the difference between the most and least populated states are, percentage wise way bigger than they were when the county was founded. Also, if my voice as a populated state dweller is smaller because of this system, it feels less like the president is "my" president because I had less of a say in picking him. At the end of the day the president is everyone's president equally so the election of the president should be a purely democratic process.

As an American, whenever I try to do an English accent it ends up as Australian. That one is much easier. Even the affectations feel easier to do.

I've actually usually been impressed with my credit card provider's ability to detect fraud. I'll go on a trip overseas without telling them and all is well. They will flag a weird charge at a restaurant in like North Carolina though. Pretty impressive.