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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I think Signal shot themselves squarely in the dick by removing SMS functionality.

    Previously, you could use Signal as the primary SMS/messenger app. Any conversations with other Signal clients secure. Conversations in SMS/MMS? Marked as not-secure.

    But, out of some purity concerns, SMS functionality was removed and the dev team focused on adding useless shit like “stickers” and then the pin-code harassment.

    Signal adoption plummeted as intended (?)






  • Hemlock Society recommends an oven roaster bag (like for turkeys) and a bottle of inert gas (usually helium is easiest to get) and just flow enough in to keep the inert atmosphere in the bag “fresh”

    Also, there is ‘gas stunning’ which is used in Europe for slaughter. There are some practices that use CO2 for this, but at a nearly 100% level it is pretty instantaneous, much like HS2 – which you can’t even smell at high concentration, because you’re dead already.

    Point, there is some state of the art around using gas to kill; it’s not a brand new concept.







  • I live in a 5br 3ba house on 5 wooded acres inside a national park.

    My mortgage is about halfway done, the house is currently worth about 60% more than I paid for the house and the total rent (ahem, excuse me) MORTGAGE PAYMENT, including escrow for insurance and taxes is $1790 a month.

    I live 22 miles from the Washington Monument as the crow flies.

    And you think I’d be as well renting an apartment?

    This house rents for more than double what my mortgage costs, and at least a third of that payment is expenses that will always exist (taxes/insurance)

    Utliies range from $77 to $220ish per month.

    This is a whole lot of privilege.