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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • The US in its current form will (hopefully) not regain the trust it lost. They have shown that their checks and balances don’t work, the separation of powers was meaningless, they didn’t learn from history, and they’ll just keep going with fptp voting, gerrymandering, and general drift into fascism if Europe just gives them a pass.

    You want back in? Make yourself a proper democracy. There’s a first time for everything. No electoral college, no voter suppression. Sounds impossible? … Yeah.


  • Gen AI will erode all originality and make any kind of career in the arts impossible.

    The cheaper taxis are only possible on the backs of people who don’t understand car depreciation or the fact they don’t have any kind of pension or social security benefits. The gig economy is a scam.

    There’s tons of crypto coins that don’t have a ledger. None of them have regulations.





  • I fell for Parship. Forgot to cancel after family pushed me to subscribe just for a year.

    When I started, I didn’t know what a match unlock was. On Tinder, if you match, you get to chat. On Parship you have to UNLOCK the match first, and you only have a limited amount of unlocks before you have to buy more. So the app that claims to be designed to pair you up makes you HESITANT to actually talk to anyone! It’s like power-up potions in video games!

    We all know they’re evil and predatory, but the extent is worse than you think.


  • Pretty crazy there’s no PKI in place to verify photos, videos, or text. We just need apps to verify signatures and tell users about the origin. Memes can remain unsigned, but veritable information should always be traceable to a source.

    E.g. I’m more inclined to believe a video sourced by AP (sent to me by whomever) than one posted by the white house twitter without signature.