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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Try to have a conversation around what this diploma “unlocks” in her life that she wants. If all she needs are a diploma to flash while witching, there are cheaper diploma mills that take less time.

    Edit: Reading back it sounds like I’m being light-hearted about this. I’m not really. At some point children are adults that make bad choices that are out of your control, and the best you can do as a parent is to not alienate them by trying to prevent it but help them think things through.

    That’s not the same as encouraging bad decisions, but accepting them. In a year or two that thinking may be what they need to make better choices, and they will still trust you to talk things through.








  • Here’s my problem with anime: I keep getting burnt on recommendations.

    Anime fans do not share my distaste for sexualized child-coded characters. Which would be tolerable if they would even acknowledge the CONCEPT.

    It’s a dice toss whether the anime is a Cowboy Bebop or something with loli side characters halfway through season 2, and I’m just rarely up for spending the time to do that research for a recommendation.

    And “Achshually, these are just drawings not real people”, “umm, she’s really a 1000 year old dragon who just chooses/got stuck with a small human body” fuckery just tires me.






  • Thousands of H-1B workers would be sent back to India, and those submissive, loyal Indian workers would be replaced by locals – something venture capitalists don’t want. But guess what? AI will eventually replace these workers anyway.

    Most big tech companies are full of unnecessary employees. Elon Musk recognized this and fired many employees after buying Twitter. Everyone thought it was a crazy decision, but it worked perfectly.

    Unhinged rant, not news.



  • I used to work in a high frequency trading firm. Our company’s existence was based purely on whether we could predict growth or loss with more than 50% accuracy. We sometimes looked at TA when we needed a good laugh.

    TA is marketing. Someone wants you to buy a stock, so the result is “it grows”. Then they draw lines and write big words to pretend they arrived at that result through data analysis.