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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • 50lbs is an unhealthy goal. Both for your mentality and for your body. Health recommendations put about 2lbs a week as the upper limit on weight loss without health issues. Even people who are on weight loss programs and injections are told to stick to this amount as best they can.

    As someone who lost 50lbs last year I get the urge to just “get it done” trust me. But it won’t help long term. Pick a routine, watch your calories, and stick with it. Success comes from progress, not quick fixes.

    And if you want my secret tip, you’re gonna be hungry, but when you do eat, shrink your serving sizes, and wait. If you’re eating don’t make a whole meal (ex. Two pb&js, chips, and fruit) make a serving (one sandwich, or just the fruit, or a measured serving of chips, don’t just eat out of the bag), eat that and some water, and give it time. You won’t be “full” but the hunger will go away and you can keep going.



  • Zero tolerance era. Grade school (I think 4th?) I’m reading one of those books that’s just like “Medieval History” with a bunch of pictures and the history on what the items was. (I think this one was about spies or James bond or something). Kid comes up to me actively reading and says “I was reading that, you took it from me!” Basically escalates it to “I’m gonna fight you” and starts sort of dragon ball z style punching me in the stomach a bunch of times really fast. Parents told me not to let that slide and to fight back, so I cock back and punch him in the face. Right as the teacher walks through the door. I was in 4th grade, I didn’t deck the kid, but I did hit him. Whole deal, go to the office, explained what happened. “Zero tolerance, 3 day suspension”

    Dad asks what happened, explained, got 3 days off school at home fishing and playing video games. Best time I had at that school, also completely broke my faith in that system, so win win.


  • Honestly it’s really concerning the number of hyper sexualized ads I’ve seen. There are still plenty of other ads, but the fact that those “I’m an AI with no filter” or ads that are just straight up animated porn with the camera pointed slightly off screen is concerning.

    Sex sells, whatever, but there’s some of these ads that I can almost guarantee are being shown to children that should normally be in a sex shop behind a curtain, but here they are being shoved into a childs phone.












  • At least he put up for americas interests instead of lining his own pockets and creating division. And also, who cares? I don’t care if a president fucks like there’s no tomorrow as long as he’s a good president.

    This whole “Yeah but JFK” argument sounds an awful lot like “whataboutism” here. JFK is long gone, and even so, people still lauded him as a good president, people dislike Trump more day by day, and he’s a swindling self serving asshole. A couple photos aren’t going to change that opinion for either of them.


  • Not devaluing this perspective, but I think this could also be applied to a lot of different experiences. Anyone who has tried to change themselves in one way or another can relate to this. Obviously transitioning is one, but it’s a very human reaction to feel that way.

    It can be as minor as “I want to be an artist but I don’t want to share because people will critique” or as intense as transitioning.

    People may not have gone through the exact scenario, but its a very human experience to say “I want to but I’m not “good enough” yet, so I’m going to hide it”



  • In very simple terms, it means that something is changing state so impossibly fast (“on a quantum level”) that we can’t tell what exactly that state is besides at the instant we check it. Exactly is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, because we can have an idea or an area, but not exactly. What that means in turn though is that by checking or measuring that state, we have interacted with it, therefore making the state we measured no longer valid for what it currently is now, or at rest.

    Think of it like taking a measure of a water droplet, in the middle of a lake. You can say “there it is, those atoms are in that droplet and theyre this hot”. But the drop you measured is constantly mixing with the water around it. Sure, you measured the temperature of those atoms in that droplet, but if you try to measure it again you could get a different result. (It’s not a perfect example, but it gets the idea through)

    Using your programming model, think of it like reading memory in memory that is shorting out. You can read it once, but there’s no guarantee that it will be the same value again next time you read that bit, because it’s in constant flux.