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@fobo I called my parents bourgeois as an teen and they just completely lost it. Fell about laughing. Turns out one of them had done the same in youth, and the other one had thought it loudly. Possibly one of my grandfathers did the same, although he may have been pulling our legs.

I think it's hilarious now that I'm middle-aged, but I didn't get the joke then.

@pzmyers The Morton's Fork here is that for a while, women get hired and funded if they are Instagram-suitable; BUT eventually a woman *won't* be advanced if she has been on Instagram, etc., because that's clearly not serious and more of a journalism role.

A few women get past this, but it's a pretty effective filter. It also really does damage each group, just not at the same time.

@starbreaker disturbingly a 2017 study of tap water found microplastics there too, though only half as much as in bottled water (same article)

It could have been worse. I would have feared bottled water being itself uncontaminated, but contaminating public supplies -- which would have encouraged more people to drink bottled water.

@forteller I think so. I'm a native speaker and fairly formal, but not a grammarian or a linguist.

@kaye Do you need it to be free-beer in the same way YouTube is?

@TQ Going through the world and pointing out everything that has code in it somewhere and talking about making it better? Grocery stores, gas pumps, how fast the lights turn green in response to walk buttons or buses or ambulances or traffic jams...

#seattle and area dancers or dance-curious; I host an open-role social ballroom dance, Broadway Waltz, and this Friday the 16th is the next one. Free lesson for *total beginners* from 7:20-8. Dancing 8-10. No partner needed, we dance with each other. Details at www.broadwaywaltz.com.

@memnus Call Vetco and find out what they can get?

@erica "When you're older, you'll understand and wish you didn't." (caption on a cartoon on my fridge)

@seattle locals -- Broadway Waltz is tonight, an event I help host that starts with a free lesson for total beginners and continues with two hours of travelling dances on a nice long floor. 7:20 pm for the lesson, 8-10 for dancing. No partner needed. www.broadwaywaltz.com for detail.s

@starbreaker One of the things that bugs me about driverless cars is that I don't see why a car without a person has a right to be on the road -- I assumed the right to using the public space inhered in being a member of the public. (AHahahaha, I keed, I keed.)

@LANthus @squirrel

Well, yeah, but if you said the shirt sentence to a group of costumers/tailors/fashionistas that would be the *expected* response, because that's what enthusiasts and professionals do in their field.

I recognize this state of mind, but have no word for it: I have figured out the cause of the problem, but don't yet have a plan for fixing it.

@fobo I liked the teachers and the class mix at Tribe, on the north end of Broadway. Pretty sure they only ever had my CC number. Is a pilates-and-kettlebells gym.