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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I help fix people’s cars and make them only pay for parts. I have a shit vehicle I can give to them while it happens. I give my neighbors rides. I jump the cars, I air up their tires. I donate to food not bombs, and I feel like I should volunteer there. Feel free to ask for car advice, worst case I say I don’t know :)

    Depending on how you define good and did it was either listen to a coworkers talk about their inner demons when it comes to being a parent, or I drove an hour to help out a neighbor who asked a few minutes before we started driving.


  • "By taking a holistic look at the yearly progression of the Antarctic ozone hole over the last two decades, we find that:

    The addition of recent years to the Antarctic (60°S–90°S) total column ozone time series results in insignificant long-term change since the early 2000’s, even where significant recovery has previously been reported. During this time, we find a delay in both the deep ozone hole onset date as well as the breakup date."

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42637-0

    Tl:dr if all you’re doing is looking at the peak/minimum times of year it can seem better. The hole “breathes” and they’re getting delayed.

    I work on diesel trucks, they create a lot of N0x. This article talks about how N0x being bad. It’s a niche thing but I at least understand why I tend to see these things first.




  • There is less war, but that’s not always a great indicator. Depending on how you define “war” you could even define Ukraine/Russian war not as a war.

    Life expectancy is going up because of 3rd world countries finally catching up. It’s going down in America.

    The “world” is also getting richer. But the average person is getting poorer.

    Also ozone layer isn’t doing great, there are race riots still, there is threat of nuclear war with Russia existing in its current state, a lot of rights are threatened and a lot of people want to return to a time before women’s suffrage. I haven’t looked up anything on infant mortality, but I imagine with abortion band happening that will also change for the worse.

    The only peace I’ve found is action.




  • If comedy is being ruined by anyone it is by the group of people who think it’s patriotic, or morally praiseworthy to be offensive without a point.

    If you’re offensive without a point you’re just an asshole.

    These people have 2 jokes “I identify as” and “let’s go Brandon”.

    Everything else is just going “biden sucks, left sucks, trans people make my pepe hard and I’m confused by it”. It isn’t “funny” unless you already agree with everything they do. And even then I’d say it isn’t a joke just people getting release for being pandered to. Conservative thought porn.

    Most jokes are not funny. Most comedians are not funny. I haven’t seen anyone who advertises themselves as to the right of Biden make any jokes.

    The main problem I think most people have with “conservative humor” isn’t the fact it exists, but how aggressive they are in “advertising”. It’s basically trying to advertise straight porn in a gay night club and then calling everyone there a degenerate and deserve to be killed for not having the same fetish as you. Then after that bad experience they complain that they aren’t allowed back into the club. They aren’t a free speech warrior, they’re pieces of shit complaining that the 1st amendment also means that people don’t have to listen to their hate.



  • .333… Is a third. That’s just a quirk of base 10. If you go to a different number system you won’t run into that particular issue.

    The most common other base people know of is binary. Base 2. So in binary the fraction would be 1/11 and then 1/11(binary)=1/3(base 10).

    I remember talk back in the day that base 12 is good for most common human problems. Some people were interested in trying to get people to switch to that.
    1/3 of 12 is 4.
    So 4/12=1/3=3.33333…/10

    .333… Is just the cursive way of writing 1/3.

    I still don’t “grasp” infinity. I’d recon you’d need an infinite mind to grasp infinity.







  • For context I work on trash trucks and salt trucks. What are you doing that’s making zip ties cut into wires? I need to make sure that the wire harness that runs along the body above and next to the drive shaft that will spin everything the trucks run over. If the harness is loose the cable will get caught in the debris.

    If you’re working in a server room with lots of wires I can see the utility of those fabric fasteners. I don’t get the luxury of the wires only moving when I touch them.