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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. Often times if I see an interesting question in the comments, I am glad for it, because that was the insight I needed to want to read the article and answer it.

    Just reading comments without the article? I have no issue with that at all, and do that myself.

    For me that isn’t annoying unless the commenter is getting something wrong that is talked about in the article, and doubles down on it.

    How do you, as the commenter yourself, know you aren’t getting something wrong without reading the article?

    I feel like each post is an invitation to discuss the general topic

    How do you know what the general topic is without reading the article?

    If you feel like that is disrespectful, I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is that disrespectful.

    Maybe disrespectful is too strong a term. Let me amend that; I lose respect for the poster when they’re asking a question that is answered in the article. I sometimes write off engaging with them further in that thread because they’re clearly not even doing the most basic of tasks to be a part of the conversation.

    But plenty of interesting conversations can happen in the comments (like this one) that have almost nothing whatever to do with the article!

    I’ll do this too on occasionally, if I can clearly tell we’re not discussion the article topic, but its a gamble on my part and if someone smacks me down because it is article topical, I fully own that and apologize knowing its my fault.


  • When my wife and I break down and go to an AMC theater we always plan to arrive 30 minutes after the “start time”. We still catch a trailer or two before the movie actually starts.

    The second most recent movie I saw was also at an AMC, and I discovered that AMC now no longer does: Commercials, Trailers, Feature

    Now its: Commercial, Commercial, Commercial, Trailer , Commercial,Trailer, Commercial, Trailer, tease of Feature, Commercial, Commercial, Trailer, Commercial, Feature

    For the past 15 years or so I’ve intentionally avoid trailers and find I enjoy the resulting movie more. This last AMC movie had the gall to include a trailer for the movie I was sitting in.

    We just found an “art house” theater about 30 minutes away

    There is are a couple theaters like this in town, but they are quite a drive and one has as problem of being located in a busy urban area with expensive pay-parking.




  • Movie theaters have done a masterful job of turning a visit to them into a bad experience. From the initial high ticket price, to the now mandatory “convenience fee” when buying a ticket, the 30+ minute of full volume commercials prior to the show so you can’t even converse with your friends before the show, to the push for subscribing to a paid service to get slightly lower ticket prices or concession discounts.

    All of this is before the problems about who you’re sharing the theater with. At a minimum watching a movie today is one big screen in front of you and at least two small screens to the sides of other patrons txting or watching Tiktok during the show.




  • For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).

    I was thinking about this topic just a few days ago. I have another theory. Yes, yacht ownership is a method of communication, but they’re not trying to communicate with the common people, but instead indicating to each other of their level of wealth so they can find equal peers or greater peers to associate with, or greater to avoid.

    A rich person with $10M net worth has almost nothing in common with a rich person with a $1B net worth.


  • I like a California roll, and I like that its all veg and grain, so I’ll choose it when thats what I’m looking for, but there are many other rolls I like more. The avocado isn’t a selling point except that its not meat or dairy and there are times I’d don’t want to eat either of those.

    Guac is still “meh” for me. Again, I’ll eat it if its there, but I don’t seek it out.




  • yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.

    So you concern is the ecological impact should this bubble fail and the entirety of the CO2 is released to the atmosphere as pollution? Did you even read the article? They discuss that.

    First, a full on failure would be rare. Then, a full on failure of 100% loss of the closed loop CO2 is equivalent to 15 round trip flights of a jet flying from New York to London. To put it in perspective there about 250+ flights of this length per day from London, with many being much much farther.

    So you’re comparing the impacts of a once in a lifetime nuclear power plant failure to the impacts of another source 1/16th of something that already happens every in one airport. Your logic is why out of whack on this if this is your concern with the bubble.



  • Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.

    You don’t get the “s” until you have the “https”. Your DNS request which turns www.TheWebsiteYouDoNotWantKnown.com into its IP address happens before you have the “s” in “https”. By default, that request is sent in plaintext, and frequently by default, to your internet service provider. So an outside monitor may not be able to see the contents of the website once you establish your https connection, they likely know that you went there and have a good idea how long you stayed on it.

    While its also possible to encrypt the DNS request with DoH or DoT, its not on by default and requires the user to take configuration actions in their browser. If they’re looking at VPNs for the first time, they likely don’t know this and are sending their DNS requests in the clear.


  • Avocado is fine, but its not something I seek out to eat. If its included in a dish or in a meal, I’ll eat it, but I don’t find it especially enjoyable. I’m even a big fan of most fruit and veg, but avocado its kind of forgettable if you ask me. I do like cooking with avocado oil though for its high temp usage and health benefits, but I don’t really find the flavor of the fruit in the oil.