@intransitivelie Charles De Gaulle? Or Pierre Mendes France?

@lahosken A thing I like about this is the graphic design.

@mjd @robinhouston I think there's still a problem with long spiky caltrop shapes.

@mjd @robinhouston Those are called "polyiamonds", which must have been what was meant; I think it's false because of polyiamonds with holes.

@crystalvisits I once went to a podiatrist for a sprained ankle. Sure, there was an elevator to his office. But to get to the elevator, you had to go down a flight of stairs. It was a very wide flight of stairs -- 4 or 5 meters wide. They could have put in a lift. A podiatrist.

@attoparsec @beka_valentine I think I'll play the one from The Expanse (content notice: much gore).

re: irritated note on history of U.S. aggression

@mjd George H. Bush had to settle for Panama.

@lahosken I had a similar idea

@smellsofbikes @MLE_online That brick one is incredible.

@jefftk Is that the amount with or without a bottle scraper?

@waltman "Before we get started, I would like to acknowledge that I am recording today on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, whose historical relationship with the land continues today."

@lahosken @adrianhon When I clean my cat's litter box, I always tell them to put their dukes up -- because I'm boxing.

@mjd @choroba Also named, indirectly, after the same guy: the Wistar rat.

@rose_alibi Houston Street (pronounced House-ton).

@lahosken I think -ler should be -er.

@smellsofbikes @MLE_online The ones from mangozz.com are usually good, if stupidly expensive. I always get two-day shipping (by waiting until there's a sale that offers it).

@smellsofbikes @MLE_online This is still what it's like with Alphonso and Kesar mangos are like -- they're only in season a couple of months each year. When they come back, the kid and I go through a dozen a week.

@petersanchez @icy @tedu @knapjack@bonk.cozysumo.space OK, finally caught up on this. I was unhappy with The Rose Fields. It ended in the middle of nowhere. Also, the protagonists were nowhere near the actual plot, which seemed to have something to do with money, except that Pullman doesn't care about money and thus doesn't actually have anything to say about it. Oh well.

re: semantle #1483 spoiler

@rhiannonstone Nice!

@jmac @jplebreton I think that's Raymond Queneau (describing Oulipo): "rats who construct the labyrinth from which they plan to escape."

I often think of that line in the context of techical debt in software engineering: "rats who construct the sinking ship from which they plan to escape".

@mjd @dpiponi The sections of map on a globe are also called gores.

@LivInTheLookingGlass If you can cheese the shapeshifting, maybe? Like, a redwood is organic; if you lean a bit, transform into a redwood (instantly extending your length, but at an angle, so you're falling), then, when you're about to hit the ground, transform into a flea so you don't get hurt?

@bkuhn @jzb @kees There's always the classic Justin B Rye taxonomy.

@mjd @luksfarris I think of multiplication as coming from a generalization of skip-counting. Like, you're trying to inventory a bunch of stuff, so instead of counting, one amphora, two amphorae, etc, you count two, four, six, eight, ten makes a boxful, one box, two boxes, etc.

You need formalized multiplication when you have enough (fungible) stuff that counting becomes hard.

You get division in a similar way -- if you have those 42 squirrels and six people, you deal them out into six piles one-at-a-time (keeping track of where you started in case of remainders). But I think most ways of formalizing it rely on already having multiplication (at least doubling).

@jessamyn @timrichards In NYC, we have a 311 app for things like this. Reporting graffiti did get it cleaned up. But I've used it to report cops illegally parking on the sidewalk over a thousand times (literally); as you can imagine, nothing changes.

@luis_in_brief Sure, but I think it's more important to fix unrepresentative images than to add new images, especially for the case I mentioned, where such an image would be pretty meaningless. What does an assistant professor look like? Well, about like anyone else -- it's not like they molt once they hit full professor.

@luis_in_brief How do you feel about cases like Assistant professor, which has no images at all? (It's listed under Associate Professor on your site, but the actual text refers to assistant rather than associate. My inclination is to mark them as has_diverse_images (the empty set contains multitudes?) but would like your take.

@mjd And his wife.

@ranjit @futzle Red pandas didn't exist when we were in school. They were invented in conjunction with Firefox browser in 2004, to be its mascot.

@ranjit @aubilenon I always confuse orecchiette with a hypothetical orchiette (which I assume they sometimes call Apennine Mountain Oysters).

@mjd Inspired by Melvil Dui?