Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Hey fedi, let's play a new(?) game! It's called "Stories That Could Have Happened".

The game: Someone picks a phenomenon, a saying, an event, or something else, where we don't actually know for sure how it happened or came to exist, and then we collectively write a Story That Could Have Happened about its origins! It doesn't need to be true or based on history!

There are only a few base rules, to keep it fun and non-confrontational for everybody:
1. You can either post a top-level reply to start a new story about the topic, or reply to someone else to continue on their story chain so far.
2. If you reply to someone else, you must either add to it or refine it with more nuance - you cannot outright contradict their post!
3. Posting with public visibility is encouraged, but make sure to add the #StoriesThatCouldHaveHappened hashtag, so that people can mute it if they want.
4. Keep your post short, and leave enough room for the next person to build on it.

So, anyone up for playing? 🙂 Let's start with this topic:

"Turning lead into gold"

Where did the idea come from?

(If your local waste collection program has different instructions for "when in doubt", then follow those; but almost no collection agency seems to specify this, for whatever reason)

Just realized that probably not everybody knows this: when sorting plastic waste, and you're not sure whether something can go in the plastic waste... if in doubt, put it in mixed waste!

The potential consequences of mixed waste in plastic collection are much worse (can make an entire truckload of plastic useless, depending on local collection process) than the potential consequences of plastic in mixed waste (one piece of plastic wasted).

Love how Thunderbird just randomly freezes for seconds at a time while I'm trying to write an e-mail.

(Do not love it)

WTF kind of measurement unit is this for a supposedly academic paper?!