Notices by Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis] (musicman@mastodon.social)

@loke @clacke "In an article for Food & Wine, cookbook author and food celeb Priya Krishna explains that consumers started calling the drink by the name boba, a Chinese slang term for "breasts," simply because of the shape of the tapioca balls. Unoriginal? Maybe. Fun? Yes. The cheeky name applies not only to tapioca pearls but also to fruit jelly or red bean pearls, which are common replacements for those who aren't wild about the texture of tapioca."

Read More: https://www.thedailymeal.com/1035830/the-surprising-reason-bubble-tea-is-called-boba/

@wjmaggos I'm not sure this article reflects what Jay actually argued but if he said we didn't need to shut things down for any period of time I don't see any argument for that at all. There were literally no hospital beds. the problem being solved was NOT stopping the spread of covid. the problem being solved was keeping people out of the hospital from broken bones playing sports and car wrecks and such.

hospitals needed to get their PPE situation under control. But how long was that needed?

@sambowne so, was curious when this all started and it seems like Clinton is when the crackdown began

not sure how this data normalizes with attempts to cross but it seems like the lull was very much Obama and Trump.
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@clacke it'd work MUCH better with Italian and Spanish but she doesn't know Italian. Apparently neither did the waiter one place when I ordered the sorbetto. That was easy to sort though 😂

@clacke this is what I told my wife to do with French and Spanish. I told her to just pronounce her French like an American and you'd probably be close

@inthehands @rik what's April 5?

@evan

@clacke maybe there is someone from #kenya in the fediverse that can help set something up.

@adammoe2022 I know it's cold, but you could walk or bike instead of driving. Today I under-dressed a bit, but if you need any tips on getting around in the winter, happy to help: https://www.strava.com/activities/13549025985

The lack of snow this year has actually made things super easy in comparison to normal. It snowed some this afternoon, but roads still look very clean to me.

@adammoe2022 the only way to get the cultists to do anything appears to be the economy. Not sure a traditional protest is any good. They will just watch with glee as people get teargassed. If however, you can do anything to stop the economy, that might help: Don't work as hard. Absolutely do not spend any unnecessary money and absolutely do not spend any money that is not kept locally.

There are other things one could do, but I am not going to advocate for them but you can use your imagination.

@clacke it's really not worth the stress on your fingers to refute what he said. I don't know or care who said it, but I feel pretty confident it's a he. I have two in mind. Don't let them live rent free in your head.

Are there any #freesoftware / #opensource projects that have some easy wins if they just had a little extra time? I have a lot of leeway with how I spend my work time (well, it varies wildly week to week, but most afternoons I do have a little time).

I'll have to think strategically about my skillset and the needs of my customers, but I'm not going to limit the type of project folks can reply about in any way, because someone else might want to help out in that way.

Boosts welcome!

@notclacke I want to know who the "somewhat full" people are (not the individuals, the cultures). My initial thought was that it struck me as somewhat Japanese but then they are a drink the ramen broth culture. I think the difference might be the etiquette of a ramen shop vs. home dinner.

i guess I just need to come to terms with the fact that me doing a shitty job running @friendsofccmusic is better than no one doing it... at least for now.

@rasterweb she's overqualified for the 101 talk, but @cwebber is a Milwaukee native. not sure what ties she still has to the area, but perhaps worth an invite

i had a dream last night which probably means I slept well because I rarely dream. in any case, Selena Gomez and I fell in love, wrote and recorded what was considered by many the greatest art pop album of all time. Some time after the album I got cancer and died. At some point too she was pregnant but not sure what happened to fetus. After my death, Selena wrote and recorded what was by many considered the greatest pop/emo/metal album of all time. Selena either ODs or commits suicide. unclear.

I started listening to the podcast thinking, hell yeah, 2024 content...

it's 2014...

I've learned my lesson about saying 1 of 2...and I was right, this is going to end up being 3...

since sessions are recorded, I don't see a lot of problem using meet.jit.si, but we could pick a different server: https://ladatano.partidopirata.com.ar/jitsimeter/ -- I do wonder if the "No Tracking" ones allow streaming via YouTube though. For example, the suse server does not. I checked a few others and didn't see any that did.

theoretically, we could host our own, but not sure that makes sense at our current scale.

I've got on my calendar 6:30pm US Central to work on #fccm / #ccmusic / #netlablel stuff. Mostly depending on my wife's schedule, but also my own on-call schedule and bike race schedule I won't literally be able to make that time every day.

Still, if it would be useful/interesting for folks, I could hold office hours then on jitsi and record the sessions

Could be a way for us to more rapidly iterate on various projects.

Thoughts? @wjmaggos @ryno @blocsonic @strypey @bsots (1 of at least 2)

@clacke DJ Cummerbund has a mashup of that which I believe is the Pinnacle of all human creation