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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Let me tell you a bit about my life. My mother has the amazing quality of picking a new hobby every year to get invested in. She spends thousands of dollars to get all the gizmos for her newfound passion and two weeks in, she loses interest. She’s done painting, knitting, yoga, macha tea, whatever some lifestyle blogger tells their audience has solved all their problems, she bites her teeth into. The result is that the entire house is filled with unfinished projects and garbage to the point where doing laundry needs an appointment like a doctors visit so she can make the washing machine accessible. She finally settled on gardening, which gave me the false impression that the excessive hoarding would come to an end only to find out that apperantly 100s of flowers have to stay inside the house during winter. And despite it being her personal hobby, it has to be everyone’s problem.

    At some point I’ve had enough. I’ve made it very clear that when she finally meats her end that all of this, all her legacy, goes straight to the landfill. I have exactly zero sentimental or positive memories associated with all that garbage, and I will not lift a single finger to preserve it. The only memories I will have are all the times I’ve almost broken my ankle trying to step over carboard boxes. I asked her flat out if this is what she wants me to remember her by?

    Now this hasn’t solved the problem, but at least it has put a lid on it. I guess when you are faced with your own mortality and what you’ll leave behind, it makes you at least think twice about your actions. Now as harsh as it sounds, my mother is in her 50s and in somewhat devent health so death isn’t exactly waiting around the corner for her. Your dad on the other hand… I’m knocking on wood here, but in your situation this approach might be more effective.

    Just ask him what he wants to be remembered by? All the good times you had, or how he spend his days watching AI garbage and whining about your own interests?















  • I think they are using lottery system for the queue position. So you could be the first to go on the waiting list and still have to wait for months or you could go on now and get your order tomorrow.

    Say they make a batch of 500 units (I’m pulling these numbers out of my ass btw) and they make 100 a day. They pull the first 500 names of the waiting list and put them in a random order. So you will get a unit within 5 days but wether it will be on the first or fifth is up to chance. Of course we have no idea about the batch sizes and production numbers but it think this is essentially how it works.

    I’m more surprised with the fact that they apparently have run out of accessories. Which is weird since these aren’t affected by the chip shortage, unless of course they let you order more than one or each accessory per unit and scalpers gobbled them all up.

    Edit: I’ve been waiting since release day. Still haven’t gotten to the order.


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    10 days ago

    The things I’ve heard as a pale person even in a professional environment, where if you would simply swap “white” to “black”, “pale” to “dark” would get you fired on the spot. But for some reason, commenting on someone’s skin color if they’re pale is perfectly socially acceptable, encouraged even since it often gets a laugh from others.