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Cake day: February 17th, 2024

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  • I feel this way about music too. Not just pirated tunes, but copyright takedowns on shorts and in yt vids

    Finding new artists as a fan is hard enough. If someone has reposted your music video as their own, sure I get it.

    But a minute clip or less? Fans or haters talking about it? Let that thing fly free baby! I’ve found so much new music that was background music. I use the family Spotify account or buy merch more than I buy music these days to support.

    I’ve bought so many books from authors that became my favs after they did a free epub once that got my attention.

    There’s always the “do this thing free for the exposure” problem - but people who say that are usually trying to exploit artists for their own gain. Fans are different, they are grass roots and not trying to exploit, but trying to recruit.


  • Afraid of being asked this irl and dropping tmi. But since this is the Internet…

    I’m 52 and going through what feels like a 2nd fucking puberty. I’m feeling creative again, but this time with panic attacks, and enough experience to own the Art of Procrastination to a level that matches Gojo’s Limitless. I’m dodging that shit like it’s effortless until the last possible moment and then crush it. So far.

    I have so, so much to worry about, I’ve shorted out. My brain is simply in denial so I will probably have a sleep paralysis panic attack again soon.

    At least there’s some good stuff too and I’m clinging to that. And my hyperfocusing/fixation on stuff has come in handy, even when using to avoid other things.



  • This is the safe space to ask a question you have that you are afraid other people would find stupid.

    It’s especially good for things some people feel are common sense, but that others just managed to miss growing up.

    Here’s an example. My husband is really smart. But he moved schools a lot over a 3 year period. He managed to completely miss kids being taught 1 is January, 2 is February, etc for dates. He just never learned it.

    He knows his birthday in number form. But if he needs, say May 23rd in number form, he’ll look it up or ask me which number May is.

    Some people would classify that as a stupid question and be a dick about it. I just answer him. I know he’s tried to learn it, he’s just never sure if he’s right and knows I know.

    This sub operates under the good faith that there are no stupid questions, just people who legit missed something along the way.

    In life, I would argue, there are stupid questions. But for me, it’s only in situations where someone is clearly just asking questions to make you break, or clearly not listening and asking the same questions over and over without even trying to pay attention, and lastly, weaponized incompetence where people are acting like that because they don’t want to do something and won’t just say no. Basically questions that are exclusively to waste someone else’s time are the only really stupid questions irl imho

    But here, you get the benefit of the doubt if you don’t know how to properly brush your teeth, or why May is 5 and July is 7.

    I believe the name originated on reddit, and an accurate name would be “thereAreNoStupidQuestionsHere” but the shorter version is what got the brand recognition, but the confusion is understandable



  • Seconding this. 28g of sugar has 108 calories.

    Which roughly just over half the amount of calories in 28 g of pecans (193 calories)

    So simple math.

    28g sugar + 28g pecans = 108 calories sugar + 193 calories Gives you 301 calories total

    28g sugar times 2 = 216 calories 28g pecans times 2 = 386 calories

    Sugar has significantly less calories per gram than pecans.

    When you go by weight, you can really play with the calorie content by substituting calorie dense food (like fats, nuts, oils, avocado) that has a lot of calories per gram with foods that are the same weight but less calories per gram

    Carbs like sugar have less calories per gram than fats, and salt has 0 calories, but it adds grams of weight

    The pralines are substituting some of the high calorie weight of the pecans for lower calorie sugar and salt. So the weight is the same, but the total ingredients have less calories because of the non-pecan stuff used to top off the weight to get to 28g)



  • Omg, it’s an inside-joke at our company now.

    Anytime something happens on a server that’s been running great for years, like a hard drive going bad or the time one literally caught on fire…

    98% of the time it is selinux that is the reason it is doing weird things after the main fix because selinux changed a setting on the reboot.

    “Have you checked selinux?” is the go to question whenever anything breaks now, even if it’s not a computer.


  • I have an S7 (yes I know it’s old) I still like it and it works - but - something happens about once or twice a month and it starts hanging up whenever a phone call connects and/or an app will get super laggy.

    Anyway, reboot fixes it (so far) and nothing else I’ve tried does.

    There’s definitely something with these older phones that is like a slow leak and the simple, easy, lasts for weeks fix is to just take 2 minutes for a full “turn it off and back on again”

    Plus the overheating when something gets stuck doing a background thing. Reboot reboot.

    I plan to use this phone until it dies, reboot stops fixing things, or needed apps are no longer working/supported.

    Slack no longer works/supported, but that one I’m just like “oh, noooo” However I expect ones I actually need to start falling off and I’ll be lucky to get a couple more years of use.

    My meandering point, some of us are still using Android phones where reboot helps a lot






  • I’m the wife and I’m like you. I will stand in the dark and wait for my eyes to adjust rather than turn on a light.

    We have fairy lights and red LED string lights for the high traffic areas to dissuade hubby from flipping on the overhead.

    Low light motion sensor nightlights for a couple spots so that we don’t step on a cat on the way to the bathroom.

    The kitchen lights are dimmable, so we can go bright when needed to cook, and dim if just searching for a snack.

    I love it. He has given in and adjusted. I find it calm and cozy.