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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Find caffeine pills. No-Doz is a popular one, but the dosage is so high you should only have one in a day.

    Time release 100mg pills are your friend, if you don’t take too many.

    50mg pills are hard to find, but better replace a cup of coffee.

    100mg pills that are not slow release or time release hit hard and crash hard, but spread them several hours apart and cut them off at noon, and it will absolutely get you through a sleepy day.




  • Rotisserie chicken. Cheapest thing in the store most times, and they’re pre-cooked, pre-seasoned, ready to devour

    I also lived on chicken nuggets for a while, but I can’t recommend those.

    Other comments remind me of potatoes! So many simple ways to prepare them. my favorite is microwave baked potato.

    Rinse it off, stick holes in it with a fork several times, coat it in oil, salt it, and microwave until you can smash it with your fingers (through a napkin, or use the fork). Then bust it open, add whatever sounds good that’s on hand, and eat it up.

    If you don’t add salt to a baked potato, then it pairs well with most oversalted foods. Like pour a can of baked beans over the opened potato.



  • Any name that seems to fit the character of the car. In hindsight, based on personifying the car’s flaws.

    One was a Saturn SL2 that had a leaky exhaust, sometimes hesitated to start, and the automatic transmission shifted aggressively. Oscar, because it seemed grouchy all the time.

    Another was a manual transmission Volkswagen Passat 2.0 with a tiny turbo and some neat safety features that still worked, including automatically holding the brakes for a hill start to prevent rolling backward. Not particularly fast, but once it got going it just kept accelerating up through the gears, as if rising to a challenge. I named it Walter, it just seemed to fit.

    My current car is a 2014 Ford Focus with the “bad” transmission. It needs to either go or stop, asking it to accelerate too slowly burns up the clutches in a hurry, thus the terrible reputation for the dual clutch automatic. The harder I accelerate, the better the gas milage, up until it starts spinning the tires.

    Idk what to call this one.







  • Gemini simplified it to this:

    “Algorithmic Sabotage” is a new idea about tech rebellion and fighting bad technology. It’s not against tech itself, but about people pushing back together. It wants to break down profit-driven power in the online world, help us do what’s right, and stop computer rules from controlling too much. This is a political stand, not just a tech one, rooted in fairness for everyone, everyone being treated the same, and people helping each other. It goes against how tech makes things unfair and gives some too much control. It’s all about groups of people managing bad tech and building a different, collective way of thinking through art and action. For example, it could mean making artificial intelligence act unexpectedly or looking at how tech is used to create misleading appearances or exert influence.