Connor Harris @Connor@schelling.pt

@Alon how likely do you think it is that “waning vaccine effectiveness in Israel” stories are because communities with low vaccination rates there already got herd immunity the hard way?

Top-notch classic freeway stub in Tacoma

God help me, I’m playing Kittens Game again

One of the more moderately annoying things about learning Russian, especially if you already know some of another Slavic language, is that it’s riddled with doublets of native East Slavic words and OCS borrowings with slightly different meanings. So, e.g., здоровый means “healthy” while здравый is “sane”; “head (adj.)” in the metaphorical sense of “principal” is головной or главный, but only the first has the literal anatomical meaning.

Love the "Historic gathering place since 1630" label that Google Maps puts on Harvard Square

Tfw that one super-annoying Anki card with a weird irregular verb form turns out to be a typo

@Alon what’s the typical per-km cost range (outside the Anglosphere) for above-ground HSR construction in unchallenging terrain?

Somewhere out there is a bash script that holds up a large chunk of the world economy. It includes a 200-character sed command, half of which is backslashes.

Spanish guy on Clubhouse just used the future subjunctive in casual conversation

@urshanabi only downside I can imagine is if you have something remembered wrong without realizing

As long as I can help it, I will never use unetymological irregular verb forms. Some lines are not meant to be crossed.

The Boomer destruction of Anglosphere civilization, in one chart

@alex I did dual n-back training for a bit and you can improve surprisingly quickly

@pee_zombie not even for case changes? No worries though, it’s not worth a huge amount of trouble

utilitarianism in the streets, virtue ethics in the sheets

Three people at Felipe’s in Harvard Square dressed in goth clothing and suddenly I’m in high school again

@alex damn, I could really go for one of these rn

Dudes rock