Pi written out is a real number, yes, I’m referring to the symbol representing Pi. Does that not count?

I always like seeing π.

2025 is certainly a year. What kind of year it is depends on which country you live in.

Household spaghetti recipe.

So happy that the spaghetti that was made for me I now get to make for my kid.

Reverse onion. I thought this was satire at first.

Yep, there’s an export feature built into the site now. It used to be by request only, but now anyone can create a backup from the Settings > Data page on command.

For people outside of the loop,

Trakt has been running since 2010, it got popular because it lets you track and record your watch history with a UI that no one else seems to offer. It connects to Plex and other services so you can scrobble your watches, get notified of new episodes and movies, and has a social layer throughout the site to commune with other users and comment on what you’re watching.

In the past few years, however, there has been one controversy after another.

Trakt abruptly stopping using TVDB for its data due to API costs and now uses TMDB. This created a number of problem with data being mismatched or completely wrong. The leadership of TMDB has a lot of weird ideas about how shows and movies are formatted, splitting episodes into multiple episodes here and merging episodes and entire series together there, or even disqualifying series from being listed over arbitrary technicalities. Trakt blindly follows whatever TMDB does and their admins locked a long-running thread complaining about these issues on their own forums.

Trakt started arbitrarily changing the way the site looks. Including locking the original color scheme behind a paywall, leaving free users a new, gaudy bright purple color scheme that isn’t even complete (random elements of the free site are still the original maroon). The site overall is getting harder to load and uses far more resources than it did just a few years ago. Trakt launched a “lite” version of the site which is not light in size, it’s just the mobile UI for desktop which is just as resource intensive.

Recently, Trakt nerfed crucial features for free users (and even for paid users in certain ways), limiting playlist making and record-keeping to the point where free is almost useless. And the reduction of playlists, which are curated and shared by users on the site, reduces engagement throughout the entire community.

Now this.

The whole company is becoming corporate and as a result been subjected to enshitification.

I am still using it, for now, because I still benefit from the recommendations it gives me based on what I’ve already watched. Once that stops being the case, I’m just going to leave.

I keep text documents of everything I watch. What I enter into Trakt is just a mirror. Trakt does allow all users (including free users) to download their data and just bugger off. So everyone who uses them should go test that feature.

Finally, the CW Supergirl color palette applied to Superman.

Unfair comparing literally anyone to Christopher Reeves.

Are they actually the mob, or are they just putting up a front?

In Japan the NHK, the country’s public broadcast service, resorts to mob tactics to get people to pay their “required donations.”

Every time they talk to me I just act like a wall. They can’t actually do anything to me, no matter what they say.

Debt collectors are not the mob (sort of), they’re not after you because you hurt their feelings.

Ask them straight up what the minimum amount you can pay to keep them off your back is, and move rivers and mountains to make those small payments. Pay more whenever you get the opportunity to. They just want you to pay SOMETHING.

Instead of your debts wearing you down, wear down your debts. Little by little. A drop of water can cut a boulder in half just by being persistent.

If you drink, smoke, buy lotto tickets… consider every vice you have a direct threat to your life now.

“A task force”

I knew Daredevil Born Again was going to touch on some of the same issues, but holy crap it predicted the future.

How thin does that metal paneling have to be to wilt due to brief exposure to fire?

The Cybertruck makes vinyl home siding look more durable.

School supplies can be pretty dangerous when used incorrectly. :3

And if you wear light, breathable materials you’re cool ranch.

If you’re doing right by the child, fuck everyone who is hung up on your age.

I’ve wanted children since I was 14. I finally had my first child less than three months before I turned 40. Sometimes life takes its time.

When I was little my mom had an electric cookie press that made jet-puffed cookies. Why it was electric, and had to be plugged in, I have no idea. It was almost exclusively used to make Christmas cookies (trees, presents, snowmen, etc.) and the smell of the dough and the finished cookies was so unmistakable and unique that I cannot describe it exactly but can immediately recognize it decades later.

Another smell is the combination of coffee brewing and a classic American breakfast of bacon, eggs, and toast being made by my grandparents. The kind of smell that instantly wakes you up and makes you stumble down the stairs half awake. I don’t ever drink coffee but the combined smell is intoxicating and always reminds me of them.

Because the seek bar overlaps the video as it is playing, and because the drag button is huge whenever you mouseover it, it is much harder to locate chapter marker visually.

Change for the sake of change is not good.

There are a number of roads like this in Japan as well.