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A bit late this year, but the bike has its Christmas lights on

So, the #Decktet is a neat little thing. For those who are unfamiliar, its conceit is that it’s a deck of playing cards from a fantasy universe. It differs from our playing cards by having six suits, fewer ranks, and most importantly, two suits on every number card. I’ve had a deck for years, but have recently been checking out some games I’ve never tried before.

Something that’s always bugged me about the Decktet, however, is the designer chose to have some suit pairings show up more frequently and some not at all. It doesn’t often matter in play, because the suits are balanced across the deck and ranks as a whole, but it still makes my eye twitch.

Spent an hour of my night last night coming up with a scheme for an alternative deck that has every combination exactly twice (by the addition of six cards and some shuffling around).

I wish I could put this energy to something more useful, but I just kind of follow this dumb brain of mine where it wants to go

@enobacon Every idiot cyclist on the road is one less idiot behind the wheel

@aral Trying to understand the p2p chat example… So each user would need to run their own server to communicate? Can you give a concrete example of where this would be more practical than more typical many clients one host scenario? Is it tied to the planned Domain project?

@ntnsndr How would that model be more attractive than business as usual for investors?

@ntnsndr @heif My understanding of traditional funding is that investors expect a return on investment (on average) due to hyper growth building out something that can be highly valued by acquiring companies. The acquiring entities then expect to get a return on *their* investment by wringing every last cent of perceived value out of their acquisition. Such a model seems fundamentally at odds with co-ops… How would investing work with co-ops?

Alt text is the perfect example of how making things more accessible can make things better for everyone.

I successfully made it all the way through @notjustbikes’s latest podcast without moving back to the Netherlands mid listen. But it was hard.

We’re lucky where we live in Canada — our town is at the end of the road, so no stroad Main Street. Kids actually roam the streets still without parents. We are in the forest within 2 minutes’ walking. But it was hard to find this place and it comes with several big trade offs.

@mbonsma “If you can’t afford a sidewalk, you can’t afford a road” is my own coinage that I’m unreasonably fond of

This is kind of a fun one to get out from the library if you have young kids

@prdan @futurebird Walking in the woods in New England you'll often come across low stone walls. They are reminders of the not-obvious fact that less than 200 years ago the region was heavily deforested for farming. 100,000 years? I think a casual observer wouldn't notice much.

@prdan @futurebird For anyone interested, just looked it up and New England in 1850 was 25% forested. Nowadays it's close to 75% forested. For anyone familiar with the area, imagine it with only 1/3 of the trees currently. That's how much has changed in the last 170 years.

And now, something absolutely nobody asked for: a ? of my favourite things to eat in the Netherlands.

I lived in NL for half a decade, but I’m not Dutch, so these will be from an outsider’s palate. These will be general foods/dishes/products, not specific recommendations for particular restaurants.

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.