Notices by varx (social aspect) (varx@i.write.codethat.sucks), page 3

@ink_slinger Limited supply for sure, but also they're selling to people who have already "bought in" to some extent and would be willing to pay a higher price.

It's unlikely to ever be as cheap as beans, though. :-P

@ink_slinger Last I saw it was still pretty expensive, undercutting the "THIS WILL FEED THE WORLD" talk. What kind of prices were you seeing?

I've had cricket chips ("Chirps™") and they were entirely boring. Not enough cricket imo. But I think it's good to see it being normalized, even if the environmental and culinary promises don't pan out.

@ink_slinger Citrus is like this too. My very sketchy understanding of this is:

When speciation occurs (because of reproductive incompatibility, or geographic separation), the phenotype naturally diverges over time as a result. But under agricultural selection, the phenotype changes dramatically even though the plants can still cross just fine. They just *look* like they'd be different species.

And then of course the notion of "species" is pretty vague to begin with. :-)

@tigertex My favorite things about these emoji is that the first time someone uses them after they fall out of my browser cache, they load in random order and it looks kinda Matrix-y.

@ink_slinger Plants are *hella confusing*. From Wikipedia, Brassica oleracea is "cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy, kohlrabi, and gai lan". Brassica rapa is turnip, napa cabbage, and bok choy among others. Closely related are canola and mustard.

And of course these species can and will cross, which is what you can blame for rutabaga.

@ink_slinger Now, "leaf beet", that's just silly! No one says leaf beet. 😉

@ink_slinger Chard is just beets selected for good eatin' leaves. Or vice versa, I don't know. You can get varieties that produce both good chardleaves and beetroots. :-)

@ink_slinger Well if they just said "beets" you might think it was chardleaves.

@bootsy OMG it's beautiful.

Not working on Firefox. Probably NoScript is messing something up, even though I allowed a bunch of things. (My Chromium is pretty much a blank profile.)

@jenkshields @kara Hmm, this doesn't seem to match the original toot. The linked legislation change is confusing as hell (both the original and the diff) and neither seems to cover harm reduction. Maybe not the right one?

@wanderview @nolan One word of warning: Lists still don't have an export feature. GH issue: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6893

@aparrish I don't know how zero-sum it really is, though. I would give more money on Patreon if there were more people I wanted to fund. Not sure how many other people have maxed out.

You might also consider Liberapay, since Patreon really seems to want to move to a pay-for-services model instead of just, you know, patronage. Liberapay also supports giving smaller amounts, without fees eating it all up, which means I can support more people...

@datagrok whoa what

this is super relevant to my interests

I went to a good bit of trouble to get a Casio DB-31 to match the one I had in grade school. It's basically the Ideal Watch, except it doesn't have a backlight. Casio's replacement model would be better except there's a button that you can hold to switch on/off DST which is one of the worst anti-features I've ever encountered.

I'd love to be able to drop in a better board...