Personally I just have a list of animals that I have enough respect for to never consider eating them. If I’m convinced enough, I’ll add new animals to the list.

• dog/wolf 🐺
• hourse 🐴
• whale/dolphin 🐋
• hominidae 🦍 It’s not very hard because I wasn’t planning on eating any of these guys in the first place, but I can see myself giving up beef as my respect for cows grows.

I get this too. I didn’t think/know it was air pressure though? Seems to happen to me randomly, and rarely.

https://youtu.be/s7RmcdHrYuk

What does a jellyfish-themed party entail? Nature documentaries? Jell-O?

It was my midnight snack while working on a project:
Hawaiian roll, slice of cheese, pesto.
I can only recommend it if you got the Hawaiian rolls and cheese for free, which was the case for me.

In the original picture I could only ever see white & gold, but in this photo you post I can see either way.

6/4 sounds great. I think 3/2/3/2 is also an option, or if there’s one more work day, maybe 3/1/4/2. If only five days of work, we could try the most radical 1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1 (work every other day). 5/5 is actually pretty reasonable and maybe my favorite. It’s actually pretty workable for employers too because if you need someone working every day, it’s simple to just hire two people. Makes it easier for everybody, and doesn’t it sound great to have three 5 day breaks every month?

I think the biggest advantage to a 10 day week is really just that it accommodates more variation in schedule, and not every person or every industry has to have the same work week. It certainly helps being an even number, so scheduling anything for every other day is easier.

I’m actually so down for calendar reform but it seems like it’s probably an impossible task.

Yeah unless it comes with 5-day weekends 😢

I really like the idea of 10 days because of where weeks come from. In many languages, the names of days trace back to major celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, and the five planets). This is very obvious in English with Sunday (Sun), Monday (Moon), and Saturday (Saturn) but less obvious with other days because the names were converted into Germanic gods (Thursday = Thor’s day, though the planet should be Jupiter).

Well now that we know there’s two more planets: Uranus and Neptune, and the Earth is also a planet… it would kinda make sense to add 3 more days to the week for Uranus, Neptune, and Earth.

The actual French republican calendar just uses numbered days ie primidi, duodi, tridi similar to Chinese and Portuguese but imo that’s so boring.

They did not have a 31st day and neither did they have a January. Rather, the day that we call January 31 was the 12th day of Pluviôse and also had its own name “Broccoli”

Good question. Really depends on what it is, I think. I just watched the movie Melancholia which is pretty ambiguous about its setting. I was wavering between US and UK based on the accents, but I think in the back of my head I kinda assumed vaguely East Coast -ish.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288947/trump-dei-disney-pepsi-diversity

I love Chipotle. Maybe it’s just the locations near me, but the quality is good and prices are not as high as some others in the thread say; certainly not $20. Maybe $11 or $12, and for a really big meal.

Unfortunately I stopped eating there when I stopped shopping at Target, when they got rid of their DEI policies in clear capitulation to MAGA. Plenty of places with comparable quality & price that at least try not to do hiring discrimination

being the only one not to switch is also painful, possibly more than just switching.

As an Arizonan, I disagree with this point. I don’t really experience any downsides with not switching and I think very few people would.

Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O’Sullivan.
A small twist, but a very devastating song

La Fuente or really anything else by Adiós Amores

China has an extremely high literacy rate, so the difficulty in learning the system is, at least, provably surmountable.

The strength of being able to unite communication historically across East Asia and potentially around the world is a pretty big plus. Offering such a strength impossible in other systems, ideograms are hardly equivalent to imperial units.

Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese are totally unrelated languages. Chinese languages are sino-tibetan, Vietnamese is austro-asiatic, Japanese is japonic, and Korean is alone in its own family. Totally unrelated to each other as far as we can trace.

Despite that, they all used to use the same writing system and, shockingly, they were mutually intelligible when written down. In Japanese this method of reading Chinese (without actually knowing Chinese) was called kundoku but I think that the other languages also had ways to read & write Chinese writing with very light translation. Even today, Chinese writing unites the different dialects/languages of China.

My proposed lingua franca is the Chinese writing system. Everybody should keep their own writing systems, but they should also learn to transcribe into Chinese, the only extant written language in which this is really possible.

I stopped believing in toki pona when I heard somebody say that “watermelon” would be “kili telo” (fruit [of] water). It goes without saying that “kili telo” would not be understood as “watermelon” unless they had heard it in English before, or heard someone use the English-derived “kili telo”.
If you’re going to use English-language ideas to form words, then English is a prerequisite language for speaking toki pona, and toki pona becomes useless.

I think if toki pona is developed as you describe, it could be much more useful than it is today.