Notices by ~ (modulusshift@digipres.club)

@being @evan there is something here about poutine being invented in Canada, something like how hamburgers and hot dogs were effectively German but were transformed in USA (mostly by adding bread lol) into something uniquely Usonian. I don’t know anything about Canadian arepas, but surely there’s unique fillings or something that are uniquely Canadian?

@evan I feel like this would be hard to explain to someone several thousand years ago compared to the much more obvious “oh we use Polaris as the North Star now, it works better for us than Deneb does for you”

Assuming the language barrier wasn’t itself a massive problem lmao

@evan this feels weird to say lol. They shift in sidereal terms yes, but all of our calendars, now and historically, attempt to approximate the precession, and have been adjusted multiple times to correct errors like that.

@evan I like that you posted this in the morning on Groundhog Day so the loopers can review previous loops accurately on their next go arounds lmao