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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • I checked out Miner 2049er, because I never had an Atari.
    I see ladders, the ability to kill the creatures, no keys and no exit.

    And the whole fun of manic miner was finding out
    whatever was going to try and kill you next,
    penguins, ball-balancing seals, toilet seats, kangaroos, steaming balls, fluff balls,
    bunnies, rotary phones, a flying eye, a credit card,
    and then you end up in the intro screen as the last level.



  • 2009 January 8, going to my own apartment and bringing a modern server and USB stick to myself.
    The next day I’d put some files on the USB stick and give it to my younger self and give him instructions to only sell 5% per year and don’t invest in any other coins.

    Also younger self, you don’t have just a little social ineptitude, you have full-blown autism.
    Also younger self, invest in Novo Nordisk and get some Ozempic the moment you have the chance.
    Also younger self, congratulations on being mostly right about what the future of world politics and technology would hold, including the US becoming fascist, but here’s an updated version of it.




  • When I went to the hospital for a broken bone, I thought this tech was already there since tech was advancing so quickly, going from Pac-Man to Super Mario 64 in 16 years.

    My vision:
    ‘At the very least I’ll get to see a 3D image of my broken bone and maybe there’ll be ‘dentist chair tools’ that can straighten and fill up the bone like a dentist does with your teeth. I mean, we advanced a lot in computer technology right?’

    The reality:
    ‘Here’s your 1950s X-ray picture. You see that Rorschach test blotch? That’s where it’s broken. We’ve done our job, have a good day!.. Your visit is over!.. You can leave now!..’

    That was 30 years ago.










  • Clickbait.

    And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I’m not sure what their official names are, but I’ll call them smudge dots.

    It’s those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they’ll add back anyway.

    It’s what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.


  • I don’t know, but what I **can **tell you is that
    I have noticed that there had been an awful lot of Iranian in European media in Europe flying pro-monarchy flags and by awful lot, I mean all protests in at least four Western countries outside of Iran, and that it’s presented by EU media as normal or semi-normal when it should not be.
    We live in the 21st century, not the middle ages or renaissance times.
    Then, there’s ‘the Iranian flag replacement on X’ by Elon Musk.
    I guess he likes seeing the return of monarchies too.