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Who decided so many restaurants have to be as echo-y as possible?I don’t need …

Who decided so many restaurants have to be as echo-y as possible?

I don’t need it to be quiet, but it would be nice to actually be able to hold a conversation with the to-go cashier about how they lost my order.

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Yeah, it’s been a fun evening…

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At least losing the order wasn’t their fault. It’s a chain restaurant & the central order line didn’t submit the order to them. But just trying to establish that, and re-order, with a restaurant full of families here for an elementary school fundraiser, and everything echoing off the smooth walls, floor and ceiling to the point where I could barely make out my own words, never mind the cashier’s…

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@dantebrevity links to Why Restaurants Are So Loud Now (Boing Boing), which quotes How Restaurants Got So Loud (The Atlantic).

Thanks…I’d suspected a lot of that (cheaper construction, and encouraging people to finish up sooner and leave), but hadn’t really thought about the impact of open kitchens or the noise encouraging people to drink more.

But the part that comes down to visual aesthetics makes me think of the plants in Jurassic Park, chosen for appearance regardless of whether they’re good for the actual dinosaurs.

I may want to check out that search-by-noise-level app…

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Dark Forest spoilers (3/4 through)

Fascinating as the Year 200 setting has been up to this point, the naivete & overconfidence has been maddening.

You *know* the enemy has vastly superior technology & knows way more about physics than you do. You don’t send your entire fleet to intercept one ship that you’ve decided is harmless based on the fact that *your tech* couldn’t be destructive enough based on *your* knowledge of physics.

#books #DarkForest #amReading

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Awakened hibernators seem to be more…paranoid? Cautious? Perceptive?

I guess the idea is that those who grew up in this era figure humanity has already faced the Great Ravine, we can face *anything*, while those who lived earlier don’t have that overconfidence.

Or maybe the Imprinted tech is out there, the polarity fixed, and in wider use than anyone thought.

But it’s still been frustrating pages & pages of “when will the big dummies figure it out?”

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I don’t know why “Your package has been delivered, here’s a photo of it sitting …

I don’t know why “Your package has been delivered, here’s a photo of it sitting in front of your door” is creepier than “Your package has been delivered.”

I mean, a stranger was going to show up at your home either way, and they haven’t actually walked inside in either case.

But the picture still seems weird.

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I still see those scans pop up all over the place. I figure I didn’t own the art to begin with, so I find it amusing. My photos, however…

@hafnia @OldBrushNewPaper I used to run a comic book fan site back in the day, and I did a lot of scans that I cleaned up (making backgrounds transparent, fixing paper grain & replacing dots with solid colors, etc) to go with the character profiles I was writing.

I still see those scans pop up all over the place. I figure I didn’t own the art to begin with, so I find it amusing.

My photos, however…those I feel a lot more possessive about.

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Over on birdsite, I just read a thread about people not bothering to look outside …

Over on birdsite, I just read a thread about people not bothering to look outside their bubble to see the general discourse* that the OP was complaining about.

Over here, I’ve seen a few complaints over the last day or so about *something* in the general discourse here…but because of the way Mastodon is structured, I don’t know *how* to look for it other than to ask.

(*Also, I’m not sure I’m using the term “discourse” right here. I mean the overall conversation on each platform.)

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I mean, I get that the point of a subtoot is to *not* call attention to something specific when you feel you just have to say something, and figure those who know about it will understand.

But when it’s clearly commenting on a problem with the platform or community, I kind of struggle with:
– Is this something I should be aware of?
– Is this none of my business?

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I’m getting alerts from two cities on a road closure due to a sinkhole along …

I’m getting alerts from two cities on a road closure due to a sinkhole along the boundary between them

It’s kind of amusing that each of them is giving a different set of cross-streets, because it’s also the place where two grids meet. Gotta use the cross streets in *our* city for the notice!

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Also, it’s right next to a flood control basin. That’s… not a good place to have a sink hole.

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Field Museum: Too. Much. Coffee! 😆 ☕☕☕☕☕

@sohkamyung@mstdn.io wrote:

Bwhahaha! More ‘coffee emotions’ in the twitter thread. 🙂

“Field Museum @FieldMuseum
Too. Much. Coffee. 😳”

“These watercolors were painted by Chinese artists during the mid-19th century and sold to Western customers in port cities of Hong Kong, Macao, and Canton. They’re imaginary birds but with some real #MondayMood feelings.”

#Humour #FieldMuseum #Coffee


@FieldMuseum

These are great!

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@OldBrushNewPaper Heh! It’s at least a more interesting explanation than “No one’s paying close enough …

@OldBrushNewPaper Heh! It’s at least a more interesting explanation than “No one’s paying close enough attention to realize they ought to turn it off!”

I wonder how many people on Google+ will sign on the last day to see who else is still there. It doesn’t seem like the kind of place where a lot of people would want that last chance before the lights go out, but there’ve got to be some communities on there that will.

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There was a study last year on how/why crater rays form. It turns out …

There was a study last year on how/why crater rays form. It turns out that when you simulate an impact on an uneven surface instead of a smooth one, the material splashed out of the crater is blocked in some places and is able to get through in others, forming rays just like the ones seen on the moon.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/08/crater-rays

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