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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • This is the opposite of what a flat earther would say.

    The main position of flat-earther (and the backers of conspiracy theories) is that you can’t trust sources, especially official sources of course.

    And if you look at things without having the official explanation you start to notice things that, in appearance, do not make sense. Like the fact that you can see farther away than the curvature of earth allows. Of course it’s very easy to explain with the refractory properties of the atmosphere but can be quite difficult to demonstrate.

    PS: earth is definitely round, I’m not trying the defend their theory.




  • I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.

    I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.

    That’s it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.


  • Bikes really are a downward spiral. First people don’t need to spend 20% of your annual salary into their car so they have all this extra money that they can use.

    Worse! Since they are now traveling through their city in open air rather in a glass and steel prison they might start noticing local businesses and spend their money there rather than the billionaire’s owned giant box store.

    And now that they arrive home on their bike they will stay to notice their neighbors, maybe even say hi and start building local communities. It’s also much easier to build a local community when you don’t have deadly machines that you need to avoid passing in front of your house all the time.




  • I love being married, I met my wife 10 years ago and we got married 3 years later.

    The wedding was just with our close family and homemade food, nothing expensive.

    One big aspect of being married is that our relationship is not a question anymore. By being married we are committed to each other, it means we can make decisions accordingly.

    For example I love the house we have, but without being married I don’t think we would have bought it. The house is a lot of work, will take years of renovation and is perfect for our family currently but would not be as good for either of us separately.

    So if we were in the mindset that we could split up at any time we would have never bought this house.

    I find marriage is actually freeing.




  • It’s great that school are surveiling kids.

    Does it means that school will finally get an appointed psychologist that meets the kids regularly to check on their mental health ? This way if there is any sign of depression they can easily get some free counseling sessions ?

    What do you mean “This is not how we do things here !” ?




  • I would imagine they use the microphone, accelerometer, some processing power and internet connectivity (WiFi or mobile).

    Trying to set up a dedicated hardware with ask that would cost way more than just buying a bunch of pixel phone.

    Same for the software, on a smartphone you can just create an app that will record and process all the information vs creating a custom firmware on a custom hardware.

    I guess there is also the availability of the technicians.

    Finding someone to develop and maintain an android app is much easier than finding someone to maintain a custom hardware/firmware.