And you can make the rubric for this question whatever you want. My personal one was that young me would be horrified to know she became current me, but that’s because I imagine it’d be quite horrible to a child learning and growing to no longer get to wonder who you’ll be when you grow up, and I think if she and I just like met somehow, she’d think I was a cool adult. Like one of those teachers you get to banter with a little.
life is beautiful but only if you don’t look in it’s eyes
in every workplace there should be a secret button you can press and if everyone presses it the workweek immediately ends and you can go outside and play instead of sending email
Tomorrow Island (Big Diomede) and
Yesterday Island (Little Diomede). The Diomede islands are just three
miles apart but the bigger island is almost one day ahead of its smaller
neighbour (21 hours) because they sit on either side of the
International Date Line which passes through the Pacific Ocean.
I think the funniest part of this post is everyone who knows just enough about languages to correct OP but not enough to understand the whole thing so there are comments like “What the fuck do you mean American is a romance language when it’s Germanic, please talk to a linguist” while not touching on, say, “sanscript”
Our username system makes it difficult for folks fluent in other languages to express themselves. That's why we're moving to a system like the one on Twitter, where every Asian artist forced to get an alphanumeric username has a handle like @bc2931a or @2023jx or @wabababxa_, which is very easy to remember and shows how versatile alphanumeric handles are at expressing one's non-English-speaking self
Discord's post trying to convince me that we're somehow now extremely allergic to the idea of sharing a number, despite the fact that Nintendo, that video game company that makes stuff for actual children, has had no problem with its users sharing IDs that are 14 digits long
I’d like to know who’s attempting to buy them. Because something about this whole mess stinks of “we’re trying to look like every other social media site for potential buyers”.
People in the notes yelling "give them feedback!!" really not understanding that this decision was already concretely made and is now only being retroactively rationalized because discord only cares about money and doesn't give a fuck about your opinions