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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I don’t have the patience to keep it up for a long time but I barely get any scam calls after pushing the button to talk to someone and then just asking about the plot holes in their script. Like the one claiming there’s going to be a warrant for me, why does the guy need to ask for my name and other information? Why would revenue Canada (of anyone who isn’t a scammer of some sort) ever want any kind of payment in gift cards? I’ll use a tone of voice on the verge of laughter, too.

    One time, after I asked, the guy just asked me why I even pressed the button to talk to a person and then hung up. Most of the time they just hang up. Sometimes the English option seems to only be there to make it seem more realistic for those who would pick the Chinese option because the call disconnects right after picking English.

    Though more recently I’ve just been hanging up early in the recording when I do get the odd scam call. They might filter that, too, because even the volume of those calls stays low. Which makes sense because even just making the calls probably costs them something, even if it’s just pennies.


  • And the major action item is to do some internet videos with whatever video games are popular with those millennial kids these days playing in the background. Shot in Nancy Pelosi’s beautiful home–oh nm, she doesn’t want any dirty YouTube filmographers in her home but W is willing to let them use his ranch and his copy of EA Football Game 202425. See if we can get Joe Rogan to make a guest appearance, and we’re sure to recapture the millennial under 30 crowd!

    Oh good, the corporate sponsorship money arrived, let’s split that up and go home. Don’t forget to set aside the King’s fifth!





  • He punched a guy in 2015 over available food options, which got him fired from BBC. His popularity didn’t take that much of a hit from this incident despite him clearly being in the wrong (Hammond and May both left BBC with him and they started a new show The Grand Tour, which wasn’t as popular as Top Gear, but was still popular.

    Then, in 2022, he wrote an opinion piece for the Sun about how much he hates Megan Merkle and included a bit where he said she should be paraded naked through the town. Amazon decided to not start any new projects with him after this, though they continued with the plans to wind down The Grand Tour which had already been established.

    He’s got a farming show now, so he wasn’t cancelled over this, despite burning some bridges.


  • There was an observatory that was picking up these mysterious spikes in radiation that they couldn’t explain. They thought it might be something new but couldn’t see any events on other spectrums that would go along with this random event.

    Eventually they figured out that the spikes were caused by people opening the microwave in the break room while it was still going.

    So I don’t do that anymore after hearing that story.



  • It depends on why you want to avoid being wrong.

    If it’s just about being a good person by your own standards, then I’d agree that you can follow a moral code that doesn’t line up with any community you’re a part of.

    If you want to avoid your communities turning on you, which could mean anything from silent looks of disapproval, reduced willingness to cooperate with you, complete shunning/exile/boycott, being targeted for others’ immoral acts, or legal consequences, then it’s a good idea to at least be aware of the differences between your personal morality and that of those around you.

    And even if it’s relatively safe to follow your own moral code today, that doesn’t mean it will still be tomorrow. Even for “sins” committed today.



  • If a shortcut creates ambiguity, then the only way to avoid that ambiguity is to avoid the shortcut.

    You can try to define it a certain way, but it won’t work if it depends on people seeing your definition because most people won’t see it. And even if they did see it, they’d need to agree with it.

    Personally, I’m not a big fan of interpreting single letters as the name of the letter instead of the sound, unless it’s an initial. I don’t feel strongly enough to complain about it if I see someone use “u” instead of “you”, but your post made me realize I don’t even think of “why” when I see y, I just think “yes”, though context probably affects that.


  • Oh yeah, you just reminded me of how unusable teams was for scrolling back up in a chat to look at older messages on a slower machine. Skype was at least capable of that because it had the history stored locally. But teams unloads the message as soon as it was out of view and needs to fetch it from the server and must have done it very inefficiently because I started giving up on checking chat history until I got my newer machine.



  • The first time I saw excel open in a web browser, I was impressed that they managed to get it running in a web browser but also appalled that they wanted to get it running in a web browser for actually using it in a web browser instead of just for the novelty, like running doom on anything with a cpu and display.

    First thing I do whenever a document opens on the browser version is click the buttons to open it in the native app if I intend to edit it.

    They made it shitty to try to justify making it a subscription.