tomenzgg

It's so hard for people to make meaningful connection, these days, in our modern, tech-driven society.

I expect it's just a taste thing; water tastes fine but, like, it could taste more interesting if we added a bit of sugar or flavor to it (I was a huge justice fan).

For my own end, it was an easy way to keep my emotions/mood simulated or engaged against my depression that was low effort and easy to supply; that said, I switched entirely to water last year and, now fully comfortable drinking nothing but water and being fairly averse – previously –, I can't say the previous reasons really make that much of a difference for me, now. Maybe it's just having drank to my non-water content, already, but drinking nothing but water's been pretty great and removes low-key health fears I always had.

Guix

That's the essence of all that conservativism has to offer.

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Well, – you see – a colon can never follow quotation marks, in traditional typography: only ever two hyphens~

I'm not sure that's quite true; here's an example from King George III doing it the way America does it now (top right corner of the top page):

And an example from America in the same century (though I think we're already in agreement, there):

But wouldn't that just be an extension of the way of doing things, though? If I'm used to writing "July 4th, 1776", I wouldn't start writing "04/07/1776" when that format picked up (which, as I understand things, didn't really become a widespread norm until computers).

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, of course (always possible).

But in any given situation where the month is important enough that I need to know it, I want to know the month regardless of the day. The 25th means fuck all to me unless I know the month, as well; whereas there are plenty of scenarios where I want to know the month but the day isn't quite as important.

Is it really switching if that was the way it was traditionally done and they just kept doing it that way?

You and me both, swelter; you and me both…