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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Maybe her other books are better, but Atlas Shrugged was such a slog for me. I can’t even reccomend it as a curiousity.

    Ayn made even the sex scenes mechanical and cold, which would have been a great artistic choice to show how dead inside the MCs all were, but she was going for “this makes Dagny strong and empowered!” It wasn’t intentional at all.

    Then there’s the section in the middle where they fuck off to “galt-land” and everything the was building up in the real world just kind of stops mattering, until they decide to leave. Another thing that would have been great if intentional, if there were consequences for running away from things, but they just come back like nothing happened.

    Except for the biggest problem of all in the book: The fucking radio broadcast chapter. It’s 3/4 of the way into the book. If you don’t understand the themes by that point then you’re blind. But she devotes an entire fucking chapter to having John “perfect representation of the themes in human form” Galt blather on for (iirc) over 20 pages reiterating the themes explicitly.

    Some jackass takes over all radio broadcasts, spends hours rambling about the supremacy of people who make things happen… and nothing fucking happens as far as I can recall.



  • That has a lot less to do with the size of your cock and way more to do with the size of your ass.

    Lose some weight. I’m well endowed and have only ever had an issue of “where penis go” when I tried to go while fully erect when I was a string bean of a teenager, and again as an adult when I weighed around 275 lbs and tried to go with a chub.

    Might also be a grower vs shower thing too, but your experience is not anywhere as common as you think.

    Edit: Would be much more of a problem if you’re using one of the round bowl toilets instead of the “long” ones with an oval shaped bowl, but the only non-long ones I’ve ever encountered were in places that hadn’t replaced theirs since around 1950.





  • I have a first gen iPod Touch somewhere in a box here. It was press once to lock and turn off screen. Hold to get power menu.

    Fucking hell, Samsung? I’m typing this on a Galaxy A52 5g. Same thing. Press power to turn off the screen and lock, press and hold for power menu. They did have press and hold for bixby about a year after I bought it, which I disabled, but it wasn’t out of box default.

    I’ve never encountered this multi-button power shit you’re talking about outside of old click wheel iPods, or as the force shut down option (equivalent of ripping out the cord on a desktop PC, definitively not the normal/intended power off procedure).

    Don’t know what you’ve been using, but this has not been some standard thing forever.


  • It’s not about like or dislike. I’d have almost no complaints if they added a button or a unique gesture to open it, like they already had with holding the home button (looks like they may have removed that shortcut functionality). Or how some phones made the lock/power button touch sensitive so a touch (not press) or a swipe over it opened the assistant.

    But silently changing the function of a standard piece of UI/controls that have been standard for over a decade, and common on even slide phones since the fucking pre-smart phone era?

    I’m shocked that anyone actually needs this explained to them.

    It would rightfully be a news story if Honda’s newest car hid the window controls behind a settings menu, and what normally were window controls (still visually the exact same and located in the standard spot on the door) raised and lowered your seat instead.

    That’s all without getting into the mess that is a company trying to artificially pump user numbers of one of their products, or my personal dislike of these “assistants”.

    Internal emails from Google have become public through court cases which reveal that the rumor they were making search worse intentionally is true, and it was in order to inflate their ad impression numbers. There is no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt on this, and active explicit reasons to do the opposite.