the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Asking the important questions here. (https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/147916/if-sweden-was-to-magically-float-away-at-what-altitude-would-it-be-visible-from)

what on earth are "digestives" anyway

How did you pronounce it?

One of my favorite quotes is something along the lines of "A long time ago, nothing existed. Then the nothing exploded and became everything." but we don't know who it's from or what the exact quote is!

If I mix up "balaclava" and "baklava" one more time, I'll eat my hat!

It still strikes us as odd, or at least unexpected (though not at all a bad thing!), when someone we know _isn't_ some type of otherkin/therian/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.

When we found furry in general probably nigh on a decade ago, we thought the whole _point_ of it was kin-related. It was a bit of a surprise to later learn about otherkin, because then what was furry?

Of course we know now. It's just kind of alien thinking of being human.

Hmmm. Considering that destruction of property is a crime, and you are most likely not the owner of the legal code of whatever country your in, if you were to take a hammer and smash the legal code to pieces would you be breaking the law by breaking the law?

Saw one of those murder-scene chalk-outline things drawn around a roadkill squirrel on the way home from getting dinner. I thought this notable enough to note here, so here's that note.

Hmm. We have a switch friend request from someone named Jaq and I have no idea who that is. Is that someone on here?

well, this is somewhat alarming. Whenever the postal service last came by our apartment building, they left half the mailboxes hanging open! We let someone know and closed them but that's definitely something to report to the post office. I hope no one's mail got stolen.

Acronym overloading is weird. I keep reading "LDR" (meant as "long-distance relationship") as "light-dependent resistor", "NRE" (meant as "new relationship excitement") as "non-recurring engineering", and I know there are others that I just can't think of right now that trip us up a lot too

What's the algorithm for determining whether or not mastodon shows you a post from someone you follow that's in reply to someone you don't follow? I've seen it sometimes show it and sometimes not, and I think it has to do with the proportion of people you do follow in the thread.

Does that extend to other posts that mention people? If I were to mention someone in a post without it being a reply to them, would it still show up in everyone else's home column?

sometimes, translators need to alter names in video games because the japanese names are close to inappropriate words in english. I find it amusing in an immature sort of way to think that Final Fantasy V's protagonist was almost named Butz (translations changed it to Bartz), and the antagonist of Ys I was Dark Fukt (Dark Fact in translations).

huh. So a little while ago we ordered something that was getting shipped from Japan and just today we got the notification that it arrived in the destination country... in New York. Why would it go through New York???