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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • I’ve stuck my hand in sulfuric acid and lye. No problem. You will instantly locate each and every microscopic cut on your hand. Sulfuric reacts with water to dilute instantly. Lye OTOH, yeah, takes a minute to get that off. But you will never see your hands so perfectly clean!

    And if y’all mess with either, wear some damned goggles. A glass of water to the eye will quickly fix sulfuric, but you’re screwed if you splash lye in there.









  • Spotify was my penultimate subscription. Still have to bring my AWS Lightsail instances back in house. :(

    Yeah, enshitification indeed. Was quite happy 4 years ago. Worth $10/mo. to get what I want and some new stuff occasionally thrown in. Suggested music tracked my tastes, easy UI, all that.

    Then they upped it $1. Fine. Then I started getting all sort of bullshit when my playlist ran out. “Fuck was that?!”

    Now that I cancelled the paid version, the ads are killing me. Look, I’m a GenXer, accustomed to ads for free TV and radio. I’m fine with that revenue model. But fuck me, just like modern radio, the ads became so thick as to be distracting. And of course I can’t use it in the deep woods where my internet is sketchy.

    I download all my playlists. FOSS I can use to upload and play that on my phone? Guess I’m back to pirating.



  • You should see my '89 year book. Almost no one was even slightly overweight except for the biggest jocks. I see people every day that would have shocked us in the 80s and 90s.

    My friend across the street is grossly obese. His best friend just calls him “chubby”, but really fat. Told him the guy would have been the fattest kid in my senior class (excepting the jocks).

    My theory is this: People keep seeing people bigger than themselves and saying, “I might be fat, but at least I’m not that fat!” Rinse and repeat.