I wonder what the alternate timeline where the Beeching Report was never actioned and railways were considered public infrastructure would look like.

2,300 stations, almost 6,000 miles of track - wiped out.

So many people would have been intimidated by *enumerates biases and stereotypes*

What an amazing result openness can achieve <3

Half the companies i work with plus my kid's school are all on holiday today - so yes, let's talk about how Christianity is treated like a second class religion in our society.

Is there a sense in Finland right now that you may be in the sights much like Estonia is?

JK Rowling is the new showrunner for #DoctorWho?

Come join us in the corral!

My local "hole-in-the-wall" Korean restaurant serves all their soup with a side of mackerel.

Salted, broiled. So delicious.

Instafollow.

My feed needs more joy, enthusiasm, and wonder…

But truth be told, if there was a hill I was going to die on as far as school is concerned - it would be reducing computer use in classrooms.

We can see the decline when we introduced them.

I see it when my kid cuts and pastes notes instead of writing.

(Reduce, not eliminate)

But then again, if speed was a driving goal then we'd all be using cursive shavian!

(I didn't say shorthand because most shorthands trade speed for inteligibility)

The fundamental issue at play i think is that those that do write in cursive can't imagine not doing so.

Those that don't write in cursive don't perceive that they're missing anything important.

I write faster in cursive because I used it more.

Interestingly, the fastest writing is a hybrid.

Billions of people write in some form of cursive (it's important to note that they do not use the same systems).

There is an undeniable link between writing something down and it being committed to memory.

Interestingly, the latin-writing world is still majority cursive.

Don't forget pony's causal messaging (which seems somewhat apropos given your domain) 😉

I'm really glad to see more people writing about concurrency.

In a world with core counts are in the tens and hundreds, its shocking malpractice that the software industry hasn't kept up with the hardware.

Pony is on a roll right now, huge movement in performance and functionality in process...

Almost certainly.

I few years ago I ported libei so that your pony program could join an erlang cluster so handoff could be trivial and not reliant on the BEAM's FFI interfaces.

More than happy to prototype with anyone who wants to do testing.

Welcome to the East Coast.

Hope you're here to do something fun.

Okay, there is something quite glorious about having a human respond to what would be a normally "throwaway request".

It's true, it does feel different knowing that someone chose to pick up my prompt and make something.

I wish I could find the words to express how much joy the work of you and your team has brought to me.

Real, tangible, joy. ❤️

This is why I have always maintained that in the UK, the class system is almost completely independent of money.

The answer is a resounding yes...

But we're frequently oblivious to such things, or cautious that we're misunderstanding something so you may need to be direct.

There is nothing more attractive in a woman than self-confidence.

Jerry Springer The Opera.

Cross-racial bias, ironically, crosses all races.

I believe air ambulances and lifeguard flights are still permitted at least?

"We're still here", a statement of rejection of erasure of culture.

The exact same statement is seen everywhere in Wales.

"Yma O Hyd".

Uh oh, what did i miss?

& (pronounced "and") used to be the last letter of the alphabet, so kids when they learned the alphabet would end it with: W X Y and per se &.

and per se and

ampersand!

Okay, I need to go for a walk or I'm just going to dump alphabet trivia on your thread.

Have an amazing day! ♥

You are most welcome! I'm not a linguist either, but I have just always loved the "unusual" when it comes to language.

We lost a whole bunch of letters from the English Alphabet over time: þ, Ð/ð, ƿ, ȝ, æ, œ, ſ, &.

I'm pretty sure you know this, but for other thread-readers who may not: Those "Yt"s in the Middle English example are a typographical error.

It should be "þt", which is the word "that".

(It's the whole þ -> Y thing all over again, which gave us the word "Ye", which of course - never existed)

It's a variant of the Halo Effect:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_ef...

A human bias that is so insidious, that even when you consciously are aware of it, you have to consciously fight it.

My mother, my grandmother, and I'm sure many of the generations before them had a skill that I know I, and everyone else i know irl lack.

The ability to look in a pantry and create from *anything*, something delicious and nutritious.

I don't want recipes.

I want to learn this skill.

Where tho?