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@skinnylatte relevant to your interests: https://piaille.fr/@scarpyro/114547868832489747 :)

@inthehands @kaasbaas @seachanger 😬🤢I could have happily lived my whole life without learning that but of trivia!

@mapache_tico do you have any more details about this video? Would love a source to follow the case...

I put a lot of miles on it when the kids were little, to the point that the floor fabric wore through. I shoved a piece of plywood in to keep their feet off of the pavement and we kept using it until they got too big for me to haul anymore. I stripped off the fabric and used it occasionally to haul awkward things, but once we got the cargo bikes I could almost always just strap shit to them. And the rear axle mount point wouldn't work with the through axle or running board.

I'm unreasonably proud of finishing the conversion of this kid hauling bike trailer to its second life as a flatbed cargo trailer for our longtail ebikes. #CarryShitOlympics #BikeTooter #ReduceReuseRecycle

Trailer got it's first use for intended purpose today, letting L vend at Rogue Valley Growers and Crafters market by bike 🎉🚲🙂 Amusingly, they told me that when they stopped at the local co-op on the way home, someone who worked on the design of their bicycle model stopped to chat about the trailer setup!

I'm pretty happy with how the hitch receiver worked out, and I just made two so we can easily use the trailer with either bike without having to mess around with swapping it around. 😎

But now the eldest kid wants to try doing their farmers market vending by bike, but it's a bit much to get on the rack. (They do awesome silversmithing and lapidary work as Idle Talons; check 'em out! Https://www.idletalons.com), so I thought I would try to work it out.

@coolandnormal as a non-Australian who saw this post of the thread first I spent far to long thinking that this meant you had just elected an individual who was so corrupt that were trafficking endangered birds of some kind.

So relieved to figure out from the thread that "budgie smuggler" is Australian for "banana hanger"! Honestly, this feels super wholesome given the fucking shit show of the USA.

@mattly @inthehands just for us less sophisticated readers, the reason shorting leads to unbounded risk is that...

I borrow X shares of stock with an agreement to return them at some specific future time. I then sell them at the current price. Then I wait for the price to go down. When I think it's bottomed out I buy them at the new price. If they only go up, I'm forced to pay an arbitrarily high price to return the shares at the end of the loan period?

Do I have that right?

@skinnylatte I assume from the phrasing of the quote that is an except from someone making the case for how burdensome taxes are on corporations, or at least how civic-ly valuable they are.

But all I can think of when I see it is what ungodly amounts of money are pouring through them 😬

@mattly I don't know if it fits into this series, but I would be fascinated to hear your take on these sorts of questions.

@mattly I really like your login bingo series of blog posts!

Something that has always surprised me about oauth is the lack of discussion for end users about identity providers' level of control over your digital life. Every service I use that requires Google or GitHub as an identity provider is one more fiber in the cable binding me to Google/GitHub.

I'm not even sure how to figure out what all those fibers are, if I want to get rid of my Google account, let alone how to change them.

@lzg I think "expiring" is used that way sometimes, but not often enough to be natural. Closest I can think of is the phrase "at deaths door" or "on deaths doorstep" 🤔

@jenniferplusplus I find this analysis fascinating, but I'm not sure I fully get it. Would love to hear it spelled out a little more, if you have the time and inclination.

@inthehands it's funny, this usage change you note and the "literally" shift don't really bug me, but every time I hear "beg the question" used to mean "raise the question" I die a little inside.

#BloomScrolling #SilentSunday

Some pics from our bike ride today; lunch stop by the little Applegate River. #BikeTooter #SilentSunday #mosstodon

@enobacon this looks pretty cool!

(I don't know if you're affiliated with the manufacturer or not, but I went to try to learn more and it appears that their website is fubar.)

@inthehands I really like your refocus on thinking of it as about the scale at which you are examining things.

But, one of the reasons the hierarchical view is so persistent is that org structure basically encapsulates hire/fire (and other) power relations.

What might it look like to have the scale responsibility preserved for different roles w/out the power hierarchy? I'm having trouble imagining it...