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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I’m someone who builds up earwax easily, leading to infections.

    For the last decade, I’ve been regularly scraping it out with metal spoons. I’m even used to accidentally tapping my ear drum.

    Last time I was at my doctors he commented (to the intern in training) that my ear canals are well sloped and naturally clean themselves, and I corrected him. Glad to know he didn’t observe damage I’ve been causing.







  • I’m talking about Lemmy bots in general, on any instances.

    I view all and have to block bots fairly often as they’re posting things in languages I can’t read in large amounts.

    I think they’re supposed to use language tags and are not, but I just block them because of there being a large amount of unhelpful content.

    And let’s be honest, there’s always gonna be a ton of that, hence my filtering. But if the people making bots to post content could make sure the posts are properly marked, I wouldn’t need to block them and would continue to see the content they post that I can read.





  • The Christian Science Monitor is amazing, and from it’s name you’d never expect it.

    My grandmother was a Christian Scientist. I respect her but it’s a baffling cultish offshot.

    Its basis, though, was in radiacal feminism in the late 1800s. I used to read the Christian Science Monitor when we would visit her when I was a kid.

    A large part of why I defaulted to atheism is from the fact that my Dad’s parents were never openly religious, my Dad is a Buddhist, my mom was nominally Christian, her mom we already discussed, and her Dad was a Congregationalist Minister and organ player.

    I figured none of them could be right and it was better to try to be a good person without those structures.

    Grandma and I never saw eye to eye, unfortunately.