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Cake day: April 4th, 2025

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  • Zoom out those graphs lol. Precious metals are very clearly a bubble right now, and international stocks are mostly finally catching up to US pandemic recovery. The stock market situation is a little more complicated because major US stock indices are extremely top-heavy with AI stocks right now and being influenced by the AI bubble, but this narrative is not particularly accurate. Neither are Bondi’s absurd ramblings.


  • My local grocery store now has big ass signs on the door saying no dogs unless they’re actually real service animals like seeing eye dogs and that emotional support animals don’t count. I think they must be actually enforcing it too because it’s one of the few places I don’t see people’s fucking dogs running around. I love dogs, probably more than the average person, but they don’t belong in most stores especially because the overlap between people bringing their dogs into stores and the people who actually train their dogs is pretty small.





  • This reminds me of a hilarious side quest in The Witcher 3 where a wizard gets locked out of his tower because he didn’t know it was equipped with a Defensive Regulatory Magicon (DRM) when he bought it and the only way to fix it is with Gottfried’s Omni-opening Grimoire (GOG). GOG is the game store started by CD Projekt to sell DRM free copies of old games.










  • I am done with Windows at home. I spent a whole weekend convincing my computer that it was allowed to install windows 11, going into my BIOS and changing settings, having to make a live USB drive with some windows setup tool, navigating numerous outright wrong guides on Windows’ on website, and at the end of it, I was greeted with the worst OS I have ever used in my life. I had thought complaints about Win11 were exaggerated like complaints about Vista back in the day- Vista was bad, but usable. Windows 11 is legitimately awful. Everything runs like shit on it. That day I resolved to switch to Linux for everything I could and started dual booting. Was the Linux install process difficult and complicated? Yes, but compared to what I had to do to get my computer to run Win11 it was a piece of cake.

    What’s worse? Thanks to advancements in Wine and Proton, Windows software runs better on Linux now than it did on Windows 11. I have games that ran fine on Windows 10 that run like shit on Win11, and run fine on Linux. Sure, I am a technical person and I am very comfortable with the command line, but legitimately nothing I’ve had to do with Linux has been as frustrating as what I have to do to try to get Windows 11 to do anything right. I thought I’d be dual booting into Windows at least some to run some programs but I legitimately haven’t found anything that doesn’t run fine on Linux. Plus Linux doesn’t spy on my and sell my data, and Linux isn’t owned by a pedophile who hung out with the Epstein gang.





  • While it is true that Bitcoin is bad at being a currency, it was definitely intended to be one from the beginning. The people who created it and early adopters had weird libertarian beliefs about currency and intrinsic value. Bitcoin was supposed to be like a digital version of the gold standard rather than a modern fiat currency. Of course, this has a lot of problems and there is a reason nobody uses the gold standard anymore, but these people did actually intend for it to be a currency. The whole thing is designed around the ideological belief that scarcity and work are what create value, and that value derived from these is intrinsic. It’s kind of hard to grasp if you’re not immersed in the weird online libertarian culture that created and adopted Bitcoin early on but these are things that people very sincerely believe, although these days most crypto people aren’t into that idea anymore and you see it among people who buy gold and silver