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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Tribalism didn’t end when civilization started. Anyone not in the tribe is lesser, because the alternative would mean your tribe is lesser.

    More specific to an iPhone, if you have one, you can do all the social iPhone things like FaceTime. Don’t have one? You can’t FaceTime, so there is a social friction or impediment to socializing. Then there is the “othering” of the green bubble and blue bubble thing. You can’t share photos or videos the same if you don’t have an iPhone. Since we are in a digital age and less physically present, not being able to digitally socialize the same way also inhibits socialization.

    All of this is by design. Apple intentionally creates an ecosystem that will excert social pressure on people to buy their products so they can be part of the group like their friends.



  • Know your worth and you don’t know what you got.

    One person’s trash is another’s treasure, but sometimes fixing and cleaning up an item devalues it to the right person.

    A misprint is the most valuable form of currency, but most see it as a fake or worthless.

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and ugly is ironically chic when value is irrelevant.

    Self depreciation is fair value in your economy.

    Putting money in a car for personal aesthetic taste or greater performance doesn’t add value if the engine is blown.


  • I think I was 10. The bridge made my nose hurt and I think I got headaches for a few days from it or the lenses themselves. Changing frames causes some discomfort for a day or two.

    Now I can wear glasses for over 24 hours straight without issue.

    My vision wasn’t that bad from what I recall, but now I am at a -5.50 or something. I wear contacts when I leave the house and greatly prefer them, especially the transitions contacts that tint like sunglasses in sunlight. Seriously, the transitions contacts are glorious with my light sensitivity and it makes colors really “pop”.







  • If they had said Keanu was in it more, it would have done better. I didn’t even know he was in it until he showed up, even then I thought it was just a cameo until he joined the fun towards the end.

    I kind of think it wasn’t as well received because it has a female main character. Part of the appeal of John Wick is seeing a badass quiet guy wreck house against numerous deadly assassins and showing a female assassin doesn’t have that same fantasy of being the main character to their target audience that consists of men.