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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • As someone with 0 tattoos but who wants tattoos, I think the bar for those kinds of tats is if the moments you’re signifying through the tattoo have truly defined or been a significant part of your life. I think even though we all change, it’s fine to acknowledge what’s happened in our past in an artistic manner on our bodies. For instance, I learned English playing Zelda & other video games, I’ve played them for decades, so I would consider a tattoo of Nintendo IP, even though I want nothing more than for the entire company to spontaneously combust. My love for the Zelda IP is bigger than my hate for Nintendo, and I have no qualms holding both feelings at once. Such hatred, at least for me, stems from them butchering our childhood memories, after all.

    The style of the tattoo might be harder to nail for me, because sure I might want a Legend of Zelda tattoo or something, but I could make something classy and timeless or I could make the worst recreation of AI marketing hallucination content imaginable and regret the ink as it gets injected into me. If I have no taste, I could very quickly regret my tattoo… And that’s why I still have no tats. I’ve seen how I make bases & houses in video games, I don’t trust my artistic choices.




  • Listen, the time for doing something about the problem about two shitty options is NOT at the literal last second, when you have no other options BUT those two shitty ones. At that point, and ONLY at that point, it becomes about choosing the lesser of two evils. If you don’t, you get the worse of two evils, it’s as simple as that. You want things to change, or maybe more than just two evils? Make the effort to change shit BEFORE things get locked to two shitty choices. Every year more people are riled up about this, so how about organizing to do shit BEFORE the only play left is to fumble and give the ball to the fascists? Because this moral grandstanding literally fucks everyone, and I’m speaking as a non-American, being fucked by stupid American choices such as not voting for Kamala because she was “pro-genocide” (while Trump is watering at the mouth thinking about building hotels atop the ashes of Palestinian lands).







  • I know this is not exactly the same because I’m talking about a different country, but its still a Warren Buffet business: Honduran textile factories, “maquilas” as we call them, very generally close down entirely and move elsewhere if a union even starts bubbling up. They’ll fire entire floors or departments if they suspect someone is trying to start a union, and they specifically keep profiles on people who have been known to get involved in unions and either don’t give them jobs or fire then as soon as they realize the history that person has.

    I understand it was worse before (well, I don’t follow local news that much but I’m pretty sure there was a textile unionists massacre a few years ago, unknown causes, so maybe it’s still that bad), but that’s enough currently to have absolutely everyone hating unionists in these environments. Pro-union stances can get you in real trouble because of how much that endangers everyone around you and their livelihoods. I… Don’t know how you deal with that, I don’t think anyone around here knows either or something would’ve been done about it by now.



  • Douching master race. Moved and my bidet no longer has the necessary pressure for douching and I’m back to being the guy from OP’s meme. Don’t know about inserting anything anywhere tho, the right amount of water pressure, maybe with the right angles, and you’re good to go.

    Even then, I see no way for water to go back up the bidet line and contaminate stuff elsewhere. Its like expecting faucets to contaminate things upstream when you wash your hands, it kinda makes no sense, at least to me.







  • Nothing would make me happier than not having to use WhatsApp. Instead, I had to bend over backwards to get WhatsApp on a separate device entirely after they flagged and banned my account (multiple times over the course of a month) for random reasons (hackers trying to hack my account for 6 months straight is my guess as to why I got flagged) and wouldn’t let me log back in with my GrapheneOS phone, and if I ever forget to check that other phone for more than 2 weeks, I get logged out of all my companion devices and lose all my stickers and some recent chat history.

    I floated the idea to my contacts of possibly not being able to come back to WhatsApp, they all essentially said I should just buy a new phone (have had my pixel for like a year) and get a new phone number (have had my number for 20 years). My own family scoffed at the idea of using something other than WhatsApp at all to talk to me.

    So yeah. Fuck WhatsApp, absolutely fuuuuuuuck Meta, but we’re all literally doing the best we can given the situation we’re in.



  • Its a victim of its time. There is a decent amount of filler and some episodes have big inconsistencies at one point due to being released out of order since they were filler content, but the overarching quality of the show, and watching it slowly move away from monster/mystery of the week to something that rewarded its fans in multiple intentional and sometimes subtle ways, it truly felt… And still feels… Like something deeply special and really worth recommending, even if you do end up having to work through a decent amount of filler in the first seasons.