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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • Are tech schools still a thing?

    The tech schools from my area offered trade focused education paths like plumbing, drafting, auto, hairdressing, and few others.

    So you could basically go to them, skip college, and go right into a trade.

    I know quite a few people who did that and they seem to be doing okay now.




  • Holy shit!

    I havent been on fb for a long time, I mean years, so I didn’t realize it had basically turned into the dumping grounds for the rest of the internet.

    It reminds me of an article i read a long time ago about the police branches that have to deal with reviewing csam and the toll it takes on them.

    I don’t typically have much sympathy for the police, but anyone who has to look at that stuff and basically get psychological damage in order to convict the people who create it have my respect.

    Those moderators don’t deserve that shit. I hope they win their lawsuit.





  • My game library was what was holding me back too. Now I just have to see if animationdesk runs on linux and I’ll be all set make the switch.

    If it doesn’t I don’t know what I’ll do. I haven’t found any other animation programs built primarily around onion skinning. I don’t need AI to create the tweens for me. I just want a bare bones program that let’s me do everything by hand.

    I’ll have to check when I get out of work today and if it’s all good I’ll probably start researching installation processes this weekend. I don’t know much about Linux, but I guess I’m about to learn



  • The DEA needs to be dismantled and have all those tax dollars put to better use.

    I take ADD drugs for a central nervous system disorder(they keep me awake) and my Dr is really worried about me not being able to get them since I can’t work without them. I know folks with ADD need them to function too(drs are prescribing my less used medication to replace adderall) so now everyone’s suffering because some douchbags in the DEA decided drs are the enemy.

    My drs office just got audited by the DEA so all her patients on stimulants and painkillers had to do urine drug tests.

    Sorry for the rant. But seriously, defund the DEA.


  • I’m pretty sure women don’t want to date people who have any sort of disposition that leans towards hating them or believing that women are lesser than men.

    Unfortunately, a lot of men learned that way of thinking early in life(from family and/or media) and it ruins any attempt at a relationship, then they blame women and run to the very people who set them up to fail for validation, or find new ones like that sex trafficker with the pizza boxes, or that canadian psychologist who sugar coats sexism online. Repeat ad nauseum.






  • This could be very good for people with orphan diseases(diseases that are rare enough that they aren’t profitable for private companies to research)

    Also, having an orphan disease often results in insurance companies denying coverage for everything because they don’t have a policy written up for that specific disease… so there’s no script for the workers to follow. Then your doctor has to argue with them, which can take weeks, in the meantime you have no medication.

    Yeah, I’m not mad or anything. I wish I could’ve cooked up my own meds when insurance denied me life giving meds because they’d never heard of my disorder.




  • Tbh this is one is a little personally motivated.

    I watched a very smart person I worked for get sucked into an MLM and it was disturbingly cult like the way it played out. One day literally everything about was this Lev-el Thrive vitamin shit. Which around $300 a month to take caffeine laced vitamins with willow bark. Which they were told was safe for everyone by the company… but willow bark is more or less asprin. People with heart issues shouldn’t be taking that shit.

    I used to think only stupid people fell for mlms, but my previous boss successfully ran a business for around 15 years(the one I was employed at). I had to leave that job because my boss couldn’t pay me anymore. All their money went into this ‘side business’ that the company kept saying they’d make it back. They did not.

    That whole experience was like a fever dream to me. It felt like my boss had been body snatched by some mlm greed demon, and ever since i just see mlms as culty life ruiners that should be illegal.