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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • 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.




  • Oh I get it now. Scorpion venom must be hallucinatory to frogs and what really happened is the scorpion stung the frog before the story even started, causing the frog to hallucinate the entire story as the scorpion was eating it.

    And OP is a reincarnation of the frog.

    Whew was worried for a second that someone was making up lies on the internet, which would open quite the Pandora’s box, so I’m glad it hasn’t happened yet.





  • 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.



  • Hey, I just thought of a brilliant idea. Instead of sticking that under a mat under all the other shit that’s probably stored in the storage pocket, maybe they could put it somewhere more easily accessible, like above the door pocket entirely. And instead of a steel cable to pull, maybe they could use some sort of lever that pulls the cable without needing to see it. And since that is so easy to access, the normal way of opening the door that requires power becomes redundant and could be removed to save costs.

    Oh but the electronic opener also lowers the window slightly otherwise it’ll break because the window makes a part of the seal and they couldn’t design it in a way that would work with the normal window position? Why would you do that? So there’s a chance that opening the door in winter will smash the window because sometimes those mechanisms freeze in the cold? Or do they constantly run heaters to avoid this?



  • Think of all the memorization you’d have to do to be literate. Like learning Japanese was going just swell until I got to the point where I realized I’d need to learn about a thousand kanji, and then there’s kanji combinations to form words on top of that with obscure links that you’d have to really know the culture to understand.

    But it is a very efficient language for the amount of information per character, so all that memorization might be worth it. If you ever watch any anime, you can see this when they use subtitles to translate stuff written down. There’s often not enough space to show it all or time to read it because it’s set up for japanese not english.






  • I use an induction hotplate and recently got a wok after thinking similarly to you. The thing that changed my mind was realizing that heat will still travel up the sides of the wok just based on how heat conduction works. Also, does everyone who uses a wok with a gas burner set it so the flames climb the walls a lot? It’s been a long time since I’ve even seen a gas burner, but am I wrong in recalling that the flames were generally still confined to about the same area as an electric burner, just a little more 3D?

    Edit: I’ve done one stir fry on induction so far and it still turned out pretty good.


  • 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).