I have my phone set to show me the temperature in Celsius. I’ve tried really hard to internalize how far a kilometer is, and have failed so I still have my distance units set to miles.

The crazier thing is that other bettors know people with inside info are cheating and don’t care.

This is just like gambling on sports when you know that the players are also betting. It’s insane.

The only winning move is not to play.

By that definition no one owns any open standard. Either way this was an academic argument to start with, so it’s not worth belaboring.

I’d have had a 4.0 if i got a 50% for not doing my work.

AP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.

Yes, defensive driving (and I guess walking now) is a thing. Driver’s Ed instructor said that you’re just as dead in a fatal crash if you had the right of way as if you didn’t.

All that said it is incumbent on the driver, not the walker, to be sure they’re not hitting anyone.

Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.

When we bought our house, all the appliances were new. The roof was “recently” re-shingled and the HVAC wasn’t new, but was in good condition. I said to my wife that is was great but everything was going to fail at the same time.

In the past 3 years we’ve replaced: - Roof - Fence - Garage door opener - Dishwasher - Clothes washer - HVAC - Plumbing drain to sewer