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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • My 5D chess move would be:

    • Go: ok bet, you wanna shut it down? Your stores are now in immediate administration under some eminent domain law
    • In order to mitigate political backlash, make it known that they’re able to sell their business to someone else, or the city, provided that the subsequent owner is bound to either run it, or sell it to the city

    Watch them get mad because you haven’t technically seized it, they can still sell the business (maintaining the sacrosanct rights to private property capitalists love so much), you’ve just prevented them from closing it down, and everyone gets to keep their jobs :)


  • 🇦🇺 heh, amateurs… But seriously this is ridiculous, and straight up anti-democtatic. Single member first past the post is the worst voting system out there.

    Inb4 they make mulit-member electorates winner-take-all (all seats to the party who got the plurality of votes).

    This is THE fight USA. In my opinion, your ridiculous voting systems is probably why it’s so easy to suppress you.



  • This is me. I’ve always been too lazy to switch (I have some of the worst hardware for it. I’m running my old surface pro into the ground and have hardly any internal storage so hard to dual boot for testing).

    But now, well hey, Windows 11 is stupid, windows 10 has been spying since forever.

    Linux it is, thanks Microsoft for giving me the push I needed.

    You know, later in the year. When I have to.

    I’m only human







  • How did the sub total become $53.96?

    Breadsticks and cinnamon sticks we $27.96??

    Otherwise, did they do hidden fees in the subtotal, on top of the already hidden fees?

    Y’all need some better laws in the states.

    There is (off the top of my head) only three types of extra charges in Australia for consumers:

    1. transaction fees (provided the lowest you can possibly pay, even with transaction fees, is advertised. i.e. if you accept card only the minimum fee is included in your advertised price)
    2. delivery fees (but strictly speaking you ought to advertise “+delivery fees” in your listed price, and only if it’s variable. And finally,
    3. surcharges based on time. But again, you need to advertise this prominently ahead of payment.

    If I were really splitting hairs some restaurants and cafes that do weekend surcharges reeeeally ought to put it on the front cover of their menus, not just at the till.

    Anyway, what you have in comparison is maddening.

    Taxes? Yeah, that should be in the prices. “Fees”?? Yeah, that’s part of the price, bud.

    Absolute yikes.



  • It 100% will cause your apple account to get banned.

    There was a fraudulent charge on my card once to iTunes, so I got it reversed by the bank, because it was fraud.

    This banned my account and I had to go to apple support when months later I discovered my account was banned. They give you one chance.

    So yeah, you gotta ask them first if you don’t wanna get banned. But you should basically say, cancel my subscription, please and thank you, I’m not required to use your device to do so if you let me sign up without a device.

    I suspect in multiple countries they would have to comply under consumer law, and I know for a fact they would be obligated to on Australia.



  • I’ve tried to imagine how I would gesture ‘my heart goes out to you’ vibes. In no world can I imagine a down-turned, flat palm, fingers straight and all together at about 45° (Nazi salute).

    Like, if you were to give some one something (your metaphorical heart) you’d hand it over palm up. Or if you’re metaphorically distributing it like sewing seeds you would again, throw it out, palm up, hands slightly closed. Or if you’re throwing it like sand, you would have your fingers apart by the end of the throw.

    In no world, does this make any sense other being a Nazi salute.

    Or he’s the most awkward, weird dude in history. That is also, true, but given his other behaviour, I dunno how this could be read in any other way.




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    6 months ago

    Despite the unhappy circumstances, it’s kinda nice Chinese and Americans interacting on social media.

    The fact this isn’t typically possible because of bans in China is not so nice. Neither is the fact the US is going down the same road instead of proper privacy laws.

    But still, kinda nice