alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

reminded that "work-for-hire" in US copyright law is counter-intuitively specific (and sometimes counter-to-some-people's-intuitons-ly broad)

rioplatense spanish is kinda relatively convenient for learning as a native english speaker.

since it saves on having to learn a couple of the not-present-in-english sounds used in many other dialects.

many speakers here don't distinguish /ñ/ from /nj/ (e.g. "cañón" is pronounced as "canion"). and of course, the famous sheísmo/zheísmo means that "ll" and "y" are pronounced with sounds already very familiar to english speakers (the english "sh" for most younger speakers of rioplatense)

little shop of horrors is fun

@wallhackio @Lady what do you have against edging

bridget christie had perhaps the best ever taskmaster task-performing outfit

@aescling but it's wrong :( it should be Ph|D

annoyed at the incorrect word-separating lines on 34 across. Ph.D. is not three words!

@wallhackio i guess it has a tendency to stand in the bottlenecks in important paths and pretend to be a tree

but nah, it's just because the name has sudo in it.

@wallhackio i just wanted to make a sudo- joke

@wallhackio just don’t be this person

my wife, after i suggested a light-hearted one-shot premise: are you just doing pom poko

nobody else cares about spring-heeled jack

@wallhackio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_and_rising_factorials seem to be usually specified in a different way (one endpoint, direction, and length) but are the same thing

@wallhackio a little history of the world (or something like that), ernst gombrich.

i wouldn't actually, like, recommend it, as it is both written for children and in many respects erroneous. i'm just reading it because i stumbled upon the spanish translation of the second edition while i was looking for another book.

this children's history book written by an austrian guy in like a month or two during the 1930s has a surprisingly good stance on the colonization of the Americas (i.e. is clear that it was very bad)