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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • It’s kind of like… I dunno, a delicate balance. A good, subtle fragrance? Love catching a whiff. Someone wearing something that smells like they soaked their whole body in straight alcohol? Kill me.

    Like, putting in the effort to pick out a pleasant scent, male or female and getting recognized is the good part. Wearing buckets of the stuff should be considered olfactory assault.


  • For Americans, something like the Servicemembers Group Life Insurance (SGLI) pays out regardless of how you snuff it but you have to be paying for that one already and you decide the level.

    What they didn’t pay out is combat pay, or “Hazardous Duty Pay” which is based on where you’re deployed to. Since the person in question was Air Force though, and doing missions over various areas, that creates a situation where you can be deployed in support of combat operations but in a “friendly” area and not receiving combat pay.

    Based on the article, they still got the last paycheck and other stuff, they just got a few hundred less for dying in support of Operation Protect the Pedophiles.



  • There’s a few different ‘end states’ to stoicism.

    Realizing that you have control over your own emotions opens you up to the ability to counter emotional reactions, e.g. despair at being a wage slave. Despair will keep in wage slavery, because there’s no way to make it better. Stoicism is ignoring despair. Intellect loads the gun, instinct knows what happens when you pull the trigger, and, by not letting your emotions choose the target, you go for the one that causes the greatest good and next thing you know you’re getting picked up at a McDonald’s across state lines.



  • Anker’s eufy brand claimed all local storage for their security systems but they were routing everything through AWS for displaying the feed - hence not trusting them but as far as I know no major, flock-enabling scandals or anything.

    Also, they’re a company. Yet another reason not to trust them. By the time I’m finished writing this post they could’ve done a bunch of terrible stuff.



  • Soundcore is owned by Anker, who also own eufy. While I wouldn’t trust Anker any further than I could throw them, I have owned Soundcore products since they were still branded as just Anker.

    I keep a pair of Liberty 3(? Maybe) as my “kitchen” ear buds and I took my Q30s around the world with me (and it absolutely shows, they’re thrashed). They’re fine audio products but for the price - Amazing.








  • The Spanish is a bit easier since it literally translates to “Zone Free of…” followed by a list of things it’s a zone free from but I agree, since a “drug free zone” and a “gun free zone” mean that there is, ideally according to the sign, no drugs or guns but a “weapons free zone” would mean you’re free to shoot combatants on sight, whereas a “weapon free zone” would mean an area without weapons.