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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The grand hilbert hotel is a metaphor about infinity. If a hotel has an infinite number of rooms, it will have enough room for him. If every room is full, they can all still move up by one room number. Infinity means you can always shift everyone up by 1 room number.

    The ship of theseus is a philosophical question about whether it’s still the same ship after having every board and nail in it replaced over centuries of repairs gradually replacing all of its parts.

    Asking if Sisyphus is happy is a reference to a famous Albert Camus (French absurdist philosopher) quote “One must imagine Sisyphus happy”



  • I had a SPECT scan done once at an Amen clinic.

    Didn’t really help anything besides give cool pictures of my brain. Turns out my brain is the only hyperactive part of me (SPECT shows bloodflow in the brain and mine was way more active than most). It was neat I guess, but I already had been diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type, so it ended up just being expensive and not really helpful. My mom was happy about it though, so there’s that.

    I wouldn’t recommend it. They need to inject you with a radioactive isotope for your blood to show up in the scans. Supposedly it’s not much worse than a couple of X-rays, but still.


  • So first of all, you shouldn’t involve yourself in your friend’s business. Fraud is generally frowned upon.

    But secondly, you know that ChatGPT was trained on the entire internet, right? Like, every book. I don’t think “more books” is gonna help.

    I hope you take your computer skills and make something of yourself. Try not to get any more involved in this scheme, seriously. You don’t need this crap marring your reputation.

    Besides, there are better reasons/ways to fight the system than helping other people avoid learning.







  • If they cut your hours to no shifts for a month, file for unemployment. In the US you can often get partial unemployment if you can show you’re not being given hours at your job.

    There’s two main possibilities here, to answer your question:

    1. you’re being phased out by management because somebody doesn’t like you. This means you lost the workplace politics game. You’ll be OK if this is the case, you’re just not a good fit. If this is the case, none of possibility 2 applies because they’re just looking for an excuse to axe you.

    2. you are coming across to people as scarier than you’re intending. It’s pretty common for people working security to be big, tall guys with a good amount of muscle. If that applies to you there’s a decent chance you’re just not seeing yourself the way other people see you. To you, you’re normal, to them you’re a big scary guy trying to be intimidating even if you just cross your arms and think for a second. If this is the case, you’re gonna need to work on your social persona a bit more to come across as friendly as you intend to.

    Unfortunately, you’re not going to find out which is the case until you’re working somewhere else. Whether the people at this place are fucking with you or not, you gotta find a different employer.


  • No, I was genuinely guessing at what you were getting at, since you were alluding to one particular unnamed nation that relies heavily on slave labor. IDK if you opened that article, but it’s from last month and is a major report by the AP, so US slave labor’s been on my mind because I read the news.

    You then seemingly got annoyed at my guess and decided it was some sort of debate. I pointed out why my guess was reasonable and now you’re trying to take a victory lap because I apparently annoyed you by not being a goddamn mind reader.

    Seriously, you’re acting like I’m the one with the attitude here and all I’ve done is reflect yours back to you in one comment because you acted like I don’t know what slavery is. But I’m the one being an asshole?