@MitchWagner Hah, I think the first time I heard about Vivaldi was in one of your posts complaining about it so it’s fitting :)

@bradleyandroos Oh wow, all those crackpots promoting the dead Internet theory may just have been ahead of their time. And not by that much!

@Miraz Alex Honnold also comes to mind. We just saw the recording of his skyscraper climb and even knowing it all went well it was rough to watch. And he is clearly not suicidal, just has different priorities, I guess…

@Miraz Well that’s not good :( Does everyone riding a motorcycle has, to some extent, a death wish?

@JohnBrady @ReaderJohn For sure! And of course not having Tom Bombadil in the movies is a huge omission, even for us non-purists. Let’s see how the new show handles it.

@ReaderJohn Age-related, perhaps? He could seem all-knowing and wise the first time you encounter his particular writing style and verbal ticks, especially for someone without much life epexrience. But at some point he becomes predictable and, well, a bit icky (see link above)

@ReaderJohn “Tolkien purists” are so pure that I doubt they would consider even Tolkien among their members. Not unlike Marx not being a pure “Marxist”.

@jonah Hah, yes, I am ambivalent about the margins. Great on desktop, but mobile is a bit messy and RSS is even worse. Didn’t know about reader modes but it makes sense, and I suspect Instapaper-like services are the same. I’ll either revert to regular footnotes or do some digging on how to make rendering in those cases better. Job for an LLM, most likely.

@jonah Thanks for the recommendation, it’s on my list now for one of the next TV shows! We are in a Kon mood so we saw Tokyo Godfathers right after this.

@JohnBrady Mine as well. Kudos to Varoufakis for using the term in his book, and I still don’t know why he instead chose to highlight feudalism in the title. Regardless, without a name it would still fly under the radar but now I see it everywhere.