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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • I was a child when I lost a parent to cancer. It wasn’t until my mid-30s that it occurred to me to wonder whether or not they’d have lived if we’d had health insurance. And this was decades ago. Of and years after that before I thought about what if we’d had universal healthcare.

    Fuck all ceos. Also private equity.


  • This is what happens when you make a character who eats cookies all the time and then one day you start telling him that “cookies are a sometimes food”.

    So he starts only eating cookies “sometimes”. But he still gets hungry. His name isn’t the “sometimes Cookie Monster”.

    They should have left it at, “C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me!”



  • The best therapist in the world can still end your career by causing your clearance to be revoked or rendering you unqualified for your unit’s mission.

    (Suicide is a big problem in the military, I lost a buddy to it.)

    The cheapest therapist in the world may still not be covered by your insurance. (And nothing you write in reply will alter that.)

    They should work to make AI therapy better while keeping it totally anonymous. If it were really good it would be the number one use for running a local and disconnected and air gapped LLM: perfectly private therapy with no “we just use telemetry to improve our product” bullshit.

    Then maybe a lot more men would seek help/talk about their thoughts and feelings.




  • RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.

    He can fuck off.

    If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.

    Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)




  • See I bet you think that would make things better, don’t you?

    It won’t. It will make them so much worse.

    Unless the EU (government) runs it, you’re going to get the world’s shadiest App Store or Sores possible.

    “Just don’t use the shady ones then.”

    That’s great until:

    1. It’s your SO or kid accessing it and they don’t know any better.
    2. You just bought something (an appliance, a vehicle, an FPV drone, whatever) and it requires you to use an app, and that app is an exclusive on the shadiest App Store possible.

    “That doesn’t happen on android!”

    It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.

    I hope you like signing up with all your personal data and credit card information on app stores that make Apple look like saints, because that’s where this is headed, and sadly you’ll drag me with you.

    Because again this hypothetical thing you bought might be a family member buying it, so it won’t even be up to you at that point.

    This is what I see happening in the future.

    The way to avoid it is to get rid of app stores completely, and have users download and install apps one by one. Like that’s going to happen.