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Mysteries of the world: on American Airlines, carry-on pets count as your one carry-on bag (allowing you just the one personal item). Fine,...

Mysteries of the world: on American Airlines, carry-on pets count as your one carry-on bag (allowing you just the one personal item). Fine, okay. But pets are required to go under the seat, not in overhead storage (naturally... but it's also an official rule). But then according to the announcements, carry-on bags are supposed to go in the overhead storage, with personal items under the seat. So why does the pet not take the place of the personal item?

#flights #americanairlines #travelingwithpets

Clicking around more, inspired by the delightfully long word limits of apparently just a fraction of instances in the #Fediverse (like...

Clicking around more, inspired by the delightfully long word limits of apparently just a fraction of instances in the #Fediverse (like #fediphilosophy ! Where "you can draft a whole APA manuscript" --- thanks @fediphilosopher , @kinozhao )...

I'm increasingly annoyed by chained "threads" I encounter on other instances. Basically, these are just a lazy structural holdover/a spandrel passed on from the birdsite, right? Look at all the wondrous things we can do, like putting a whole intro into the content warning box to shrink down the space of this very post unless you care to expand it!

So, once I have you all here now: birdsite #history question: in the very early days, were chained threads a faux pas ("you're not getting the point of this space! Be less verbose") or were people bothered from day 1 by the restriction and just invented right away the new staccato long-form communication norm)?