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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Though even that is complicated by 50 or so years of nuclear weapons testing, which likely also increased cancer rates. Not to mention all that lead everywhere. Produce gradually losing nutrients because farming mostly just focuses on the big three with fertilizer and the others are being mined out of the ground and sent to landfills, septic tanks, waste processing facilities, cemetaries, and crematoriums also doesn’t help (though I’m not sure waste processing and crematoriums remove those nutrients from the cycle like the others, since the one could produce fertilizer and the other might be sending it out into the atmosphere where it could eventually end up back in the soil).

    There’s so much chaos that it’s hard to isolate causes, which then makes all the causes kinda “hide in plain sight” because they can perpetually blame the others and shit only gets worse over time.


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    The point is that you can’t observe anything without some kind of interaction. Even just looking at something requires bouncing light off of it.

    We’re used to our observations seeming passive because light is often hitting the things anyways, but the double slit experiment forces the point because the subjects of the experiment are so small that even just using ways of observing them affects the outcome of the experiment.





  • 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.