- Pete Townshend was the first guitarist to smash his instrument on stage.
- There's a brand of mountain water called Liquid Death (it murders your thirst) sold in tallboy aluminum cans instead of plastic. Aluminum is infinitely more recyclable and you look cool drinking water even at hardcore social events like parties and concerts. They're so anti-plastic that they offer prepaid postage stickers to put on plastic soda bottle to mail them back to the companies that created them (loving homes for plastic). Radical.
- Pharmacies in Calgary are now free to cancel a vaccine appointment you've made with no explanation. (We called, they don't have enough vaccines)
- The Kalona Amish affiliation of Iowa are the most permissive of technology and even used tractors in their fields.
- Per-person greenhouse gas emissions of old order Amish people are 25% that of wider society.
- Amish men are forbidden to grow mustaches because they are seen as being affiliated with the military, which they are strongly opposed to due to their pacifist beliefs.
- Alberta just announced restrictions on golf. Whoa. Whoa! Wait just a bloody minute. LOL I kid. I don't care.....
- A 7 year old girl noticed that the dresses sold in the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons were more expensive than the jumpsuits or pants. She asked her mom why, who had no answer. She then decided to write a letter to Nintendo on her own.
- Finland is the only country in the EU where homelessness is decreasing.
Friday, May 14, 2021
Things I learned lately 14 May
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