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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I honestly wonder if the advertising industry is just a house of cards, with everyone so far up their own asses that they couldn’t possibly realize how much energy, resources, and dignity is just getting wasted.

    I can’t help but feel sorry for whoever thought their “targeted advertising” worked when I just accidentally picked up my tablet and clumsily landed a finger on a banner, or let an entire video ad play because I was preoccupied and not physically able to skip it. The only ads I genuinely pay attention to are the promotional newsletters I actually sign up for out of legitimate interest from those sites, not out of pride or anything, it’s just the only instance where actually find myself interested in what’s being advertised. Everything else out there in the “targeted” web is just white noise to me, and people think it’s a gold mine.










  • Times where I’ve found myself pleased with my smart watch:

    • Keeping discreet timers.
    • Discreet taps on the wrist when a delivery is arriving or someone important is trying to call me.
    • Quick replying to texts from my SO.
    • Pinging my misplaced phone.
    • Directions to places via cryptic taps on my wrist (and having a little map if I want to check).
    • Remote camera view-finder and shutter button for group photos where everyone can be in them.
    • Having a money conversion calculator on my wrist when traveling.
    • Audio controls from my wrist. (Really nice if you like walking around without a phone in front of you.)
    • Paying through a subway turn-style with a tap from my wrist instead of needing to dig something out of my pockets.
    • Keeping track of my health, which I wouldn’t have otherwise.
    • Less general dependency on my phone itself, resulting in better battery life.

    Not saying you should or shouldn’t get one. These are just reasons I’ve found myself happy with mine.






  • Just curious. Why do you think young men turn to violence when they feel like they’ve lost control of a situation? Do you think they do it because it’s just in their nature, or because many might have found themselves in situations where discussion gets ignored, pleading makes things worse, running inspires pursuit, and aggression made it all stop?

    I’m not saying this to diminish the problem of domestic violence against women, or as an attempt to argue against any of the statistics. I just think angrily blaming men for violence rather than attempting to understand how such a problem manifests in the first place will not make anything safer for anyone.

    (I hope I don’t regret jumping in on this discussion.)