Notices by Adam (pseudomonas@mastodon.social), page 2

@goatsarah "knee-jerk navel gazing" is an excellently evocative metaphor.

@goatsarah @marnanel I don't think they're always the loveliest of trees, but they're not _that_ bad. They're not leyland cypress.

@marnanel I think of them as being maples if I think hard about it, but I wouldn't use them synonymously. I guess I'd say they were maples _sensu lato_

@goatsarah NO

@goatsarah yeah, but the US is a continental landmass.

@goatsarah I'm the "some categories are paraphyletic, live with it" one

@goatsarah oh, glad to hear it. Hope you didn't get any shit from any of them.

@goatsarah eep. Are other carriages available or are they all footballist-filled?

@A_C_McGregor @davidallengreen @goatsarah I keep meaning to make speculoos (the sort with just cinnamon); I find it a bit less cloying than speculaas or Spekulatius. But I might have a go at this recipe if it has your seal of approval. Maybe just dialling back the sugar a touch compared to commercial stuff would be enough for my taste.

@A_C_McGregor @davidallengreen link to recipe?

@sesquipedality @goatsarah @lnr @mobbsy Ouch. I've just looked on ebay at prices for RPi models. with delivery I'm looking at about €40 for a zero and about €50-€90 for other models. That's kinda a lot given that I can find second hand laptops starting at about €50.

@goatsarah @ajlanes and, annoyingly vice versa.

@ajlanes @goatsarah is git a term of abuse outside the UK?

@goatsarah @ajlanes @tricia indeed. Similarly for the very many portmanteaus with "national" → "nat" eg "National Westminster" → "NatWest", it's never ever been pronounced "Nash West", not by anyone AFAIK.

@goatsarah I think they see it as something that'll fail with someone else's name on it.

@goatsarah I hope so. 🤞

@goatsarah @po8crg chicago pizza quite possibly qualifies as a quiche *as well as* a pizza. That's OK, categories can overlap.

@goatsarah @po8crg I get that you disapprove of it, but it's not "not a pizza" in the way that a Welsh Rabbit (aka rarebit) is "not a rabbit".

@po8crg @goatsarah I think that Chicago pizza is at least similar enough to unqualified pizza to bear the _qualified_ name. It's perfectly standard for an X Y to be _somewhat_ different from the prototypical Y, and I don't think that chicago pizza exceeds that level of difference, unless "pizza" is defined _particularly_ narrowly.

(disclaimer, it's been many years since I've eaten a Chicago pizza. It didn't make a massive impression on me, gastronomically-speaking.)

@goatsarah Is there still solid ice from Russia to Greenland?