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Cake day: 2023年6月11日

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  • I’m old but it entertains me to see people saying 7% is outrageous when I remember the rates in the early 1980s.

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s crazy, it’s just less than half of what rates were there for awhile. One of those “back in my day we walked to school in the snow, uphill both ways” type things.

    Blew my fucking mind when we got a 4% back around 2010 (year guesstimate, too lazy to look it up)

















  • Time for me to add my tiny bit of semi related, but useless, knowledge : Galena can also form in cube shapes.

    The only reason I know this is because we were crawling around in some old mines in the Ozarks and back in a little offshoot I found a few small, dark cubes in the dirt so I asked some of the geologists with us. Turns out the small mines were there specifically to pull out galena.

    From wikipedia :

    Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver.

    Also, don’t go crawling around in mines from the 1800s, it’s likely a bad idea.




  • I haven’t truly needed to use windows in probably 4 years. And those few needs were specific to helping someone who was on windows figure out some windows tomfuckery. I don’t think I care anymore… I can just give them a Linux ISO and call it good now.

    Good to know though. Just in case.