Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 25

Yes, they put spin buttons on the 16-digit credit card number field, so you can click to add or subtract one unit. When holding the button down, it spins at about 10 units per second, so an error in the first digit will take about 3.2 million years to correct. https://mstdn.io/media/eSwyisG55lL66tXotpI

"Daydream Believer" made a lot more sense to me once I found out that the line "Now you know how happy I can be" was originally written as "funky" - as in "smelly." It's about starry-eyed teenagers who get married, get older, and learn what each other and adult life are really like. But the label changed that one word and, especially without the context of the trilogy it was written to be part of, the entire song turned into puzzling semi-nonsense.

@deutrino Is this only for English-language instances? Because if you looked at every "about" page for instances with over 2000 items posted, it's surprising to me that none of the Japanese-language instances made the list.

https://mstdn.io/media/TJ3EQSKyoePZoVX3KFI

always the butt stuff on this network

@shpuld To be fair, this was talking about dogs specifically trained to search for undeclared food. It wasn't, as some readers might guess from the headline, a case of drug-sniffing dogs being distracted by sausages.

North Coast MSK 010 Fixed Sine Bank video kit review/demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj_wd32Tg3M

@mayuutann of course there are some movies where "The" is actually part of the title, like "The Shining." If you said "I went to see 'Shining.'" people would think it was a different movie.

@thor Well, I don't know, it wasn't my idea. But in the USA "beanie wienies" (chopped up wieners stewed with beans) is a low-effort comfort food, especially popular with children.

@thor doesn't seem to currently mention that in the English article "Hamburger," but of course there are many other places in Wikipedia where it might talk about this.

@thor My co-worker from Germany was surprised when I told him that the American "hamburger" was represented as actually coming from Hamburg; he thought the word must have had some other etymology that only coincidentally landed on something that could also be interpreted as meaning "from Hamburg." On further research, it appears that in that particular case it was invented on the US side, but among a group of immigrants many of whom were from Hamburg, thus becoming associated with them.

@thor In Denmark they eat something they call "Swedish stew" which is mostly potatoes and Vienna sausages. Swedish people claim it has nothing to do with them.

@tomey I'm sure we'll hear the story eventually, even if only through condemnation of it from certain other directions. :blobpopcorn: