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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Lmao, it was while reading this comment that I realized it wasn’t Semi-Charred Kind of Life, a mistake that ironically helped me see that it was darker than it seemed.

    It makes the line “I want something else to get me through this semi-charred kinda life” pretty obvious that he has negative feelings about it and from that I could guess that there was some kind of pain between the lines, though younger me thought maybe infidelity or some kind of mania (which I guess isn’t too far off the mark).

    That said, despite the hidden tone, that song always makes me feel good. The overt tone is just so upbeat!




  • Learning how to (sometimes) overcome this has lead to things like baking cookies at 2am because I noticed the half a carrot I had was starting to go bad but I happen to have all the ingredients to make carrot cake cookies. Just do it, it’s no big deal.

    Just make sure you have everything you need before starting a job you must finish or you lose access to something important (eg fixing your only toilet).






  • The reason that 25 number came up is that’s how old the cohort they were studying brain development got when their funding was cut. There’s no reason to not believe brains continue developing all our lives, or that even if that study did find a “cut off point” that it would be the same from person to person.




  • When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.

    The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.

    Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.

    The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.

    So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.

    Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.



  • Pretty sure it was that Mr Bean movie where he goes to America. I think the premise was Bean was accompanying a painting from England (they sent him to get rid of him for a while) and at some point he gets something on the painting, tries to clean it, and paint comes off, too. Then he fixes it and his host either starts crying or trying to attack him.


  • Personally, I prefer laziness as a motivator over greed. It’s much more likely to lead to low maintenance solutions that still keep maintenance as an option over replacement.

    Though I’ve curated my laziness to the point where I’ll do chores out of laziness becuase I know they’ll be more work later.

    But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.




  • Just realized that even if there is no mechanism to get the exact date from any of these age tracking systems, they’ll be able to infer the exact dates by just looking at when the user/device transitions to the next bracket. Then they’ll know the birthday for the start of that bracket falls somewhere between the last check and the current one.

    Though maybe that data can be poisoned by making it transition backwards occasionally, so it looks like the user is editing their age older and back or something. But, on the other hand, a lack of data or poisoned data is going to be a flag on its own at some point (if not already).