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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • This seems plausible so I tried other browsers and computers on my network.

    Edge, Firefox, Brave, Arc, and DuckDuckGo all showed the same page on Ebay with “Trending in Sneakers” and “Trending in Watches”. I was searching for sneakers recently but not watches.

    Orion is the only one that showed “Your Recently Viewed Items” with specific items I was looking at in Safari. I went ahead and chose “Reset Orion” from the menu and see it’s now operating the same as the other browsers.






  • The people who want to elect DT are either extremists, cult followers, uninformed / misinformed, or corporate or political anarchists. There is no one of sound or informed mind who would ever vote for him. He has proven to be bad for the people, the economy, the nation, and the world.

    We live in a time where instant access to ideas dilutes and twists reality. The majority of people don’t really know what they’re voting for nor do they really care what the ramifications of their decisions mean.

    I live in a “blue” east coast city. I read news from generally unbiased sources and I engage with others in forums like this. I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve come across, mostly but not exclusively from outside my city, who have unwavering opinions about something they’ve proven to know very little about (this is not exclusive to MAGA or republicans). I had a conversation with someone I’ve known most my life about Dr. Fauci. He thought he should be sent to prison. When I asked why he thought that he didn’t really have a coherent response and ended with, “well I guess I don’t really pay that close attention to the news”.

    Today’s politics is more similar to a sporting event than it is about the democratic process. It’s more about engaging with your team’s fans on social media than it is understanding the philosophies and mechanisms of government.


  • That is not the definition of helicopter parents; quite the opposite. Helicopter parents would have been overly attentive of you and ensuring you were doing all the things you should be doing, or doing them on your behalf, even if you fought against them.

    You had neglectful parents. Frankly, I wouldn’t refer to these people as “parents” at all if they didn’t teach you how to bathe yourself.

    I’m sorry this was your life and hope you’ve considered therapy.









  • If you’re continually having issues passing a written exam, I would respectfully request that you just stop now. These “laws and rules and stuff”, generally, are not complicated and are far from stupid. This is the bare minimum you should know in order to operate a motor vehicle safely in the presence of other vehicles and children. If you’re unable to grasp the seriousness of this, how it can literally impact your very existence, you may not be responsible enough to operate a vehicle. Granted, probably half the people on the road shouldn’t be on the road either.


  • Why I’m not “normal”.

    I don’t understand popular culture. Things like “The Bachelor” and why people choose to spend their time watching this stuff on a regular basis for decades. I like sports but the fanaticism can be obscene (says the guy from Philly). I understand TikTok releases dopamine but how do people not realize they’re addicted to these things? How is it that so many people are so gullible and unable to discern obviously fake or subjective or biased information. How do people fall for advertising? How are people not curious to know the reality of a situation? How can people defend things that are so obviously wrong or bad for all humans? Why is “obvious” obvious to some and entirely vailed and twisted for others?

    There’s something that a lot of people share that I don’t understand. Something about the need to be right. The need to be protective. While also having the need to not care too much about anything more than entertainment. There’s a subconscious desire to be part of something, to be a cog in the machine, to be a consumer, and to be lead by someone else.

    I vividly remember, at eight years old, going to catholic catechism class and realizing that every religion claims to be the true religion and if that were the case it’s plausible my religion was the wrong religion or that all religion was simply made up. I’m by no definition a very intelligent person so why is it that I can figure this out, before I barely even know what sex is, while the vast majority of human civilization for the past 2000+ years hasn’t asked this question? How are we still warring over verifiably made up stories (the Bible’s Jesus was a story based on several preexisting religions)?

    I certainly have strong, sometimes less-informed opinions, but I’m here to learn. I like to think I’m humble but sometimes I let semantics get in the way. If you prove me wrong or offer something I hadn’t considered, I’ll at least shut my mouth about it and do more research.

    To make it less about me, I want to learn more about whatever the subject is that I’ve just described.

    Edit: This is funny and kind of relevant. Someone else recently posted a question on Lemmy about using the Internet Archive. This lead me to go back and look at a personal blog I had starting in 2005. This quote from 2006 is relevant to not understanding why people do what they do:

    Look, I understand that Chain Mail will never go away, and it’s not even the hassle of hitting the little delete button. It’s just that I am so irritated by the people who think that they are either going to find themselves falling in love with the person they have in mind when they hit the send button or that they will be financialy independant because they SENT-AN-EMAIL. Do you idiot’s have any clue at all?! COME ON!!!


  • through time

    Dude, you’re saying this as though the internet has been around for millennia. And as if you’ve never been to / heard of a library.

    I’ve downloaded a ton of music videos to create my own self-hosted MTV station. I’ve downloaded music and books. I’ve used it to view non-paywalled (NYT) articles shared on Lemmy. I live in Philadelphia so I’ve used it to look up the earliest version of the “yellow pages” or “white pages” from the 1800s. I’ve searched for the videos they used to show us in elementary school on 16mm - stuff about the expansion of the USA, the national parks, history of my state or city, etc. I’ve used it to look up tv commercials from the 1980s for a bit of nostalgia and older tv shows that people have uploaded from their personal VHS collection. Some people just upload personal stuff that’s entirely mundane but voyeuristically interesting. And I’m certain I haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s on there.