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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • “Child” includes some years where they can drive.

    Being an adult doesn’t mean you will never need help from your parents again.

    If mom is at work, why is leaving work the preferable option to dad leaving fishing? That also doesn’t mean she hasn’t been told.

    They’re driving their mom’s car, they obviously are still living at home and probably don’t have a ton of money for a taxi, especially since dad could just stop fishing and come pick them up.

    Married couples are usually both owners of their vehicles and on the same insurance plans, so dad could most likely handle insurance and accident related things.








  • Having been with android since it’s first mainstream phones (and not rooting), a lot of those were made up non issues over the years and I’ve consistently been at parity or better with ios, with one exception - God damn fucking Google recreating their own messaging apps to be separate and worse and then shutting them down when they fail! Now with every company’s nonsense AI push you have Google replacing assistant with Gemini, which does less and their LLM is clearly the worst (hence the Google search result memes), and this messaging thing. Modern Google is the worst thing to happen to android.








  • Have you never been on the internet?

    For decades I’ve spent too much time here. The internet is not real life. With 8 billion people, it’s incredibly easy to find a few hundred assholes at a time, they tend to find each other online. You had maybe a dozen people around you total in the moment.

    Besides, correcting grammar on the internet is basically a meme coming from the days of forums. Sometimes even then, people are genuinely just trying to help. It’s not that I’m being naive or trying to say most people are good people (though there’s an argument for that), but I’m saying most people don’t care enough about each other to think about something like this for more than a few minutes. The only new thing is that people keep recording shit now and posting it online, which sometimes goes viral. If that didn’t happen then you’re good.

    Look at this post if you want to consider the internet, you have 38 upvotes and 2 downvotes and several people offering advice in the comments. MOST people just don’t really care enough to judge you for this.

    I will concede that from what I’ve experienced jobs where you’re flipping burgers (McDonalds, Burger King, places like that) you can have a lot more young people working and it can sometimes feel like high school again, but it’s usually just their own drama.


  • I promise you they’re not. Look at it with the roles reversed, would you be sitting there long after the shift thinking “Ha, that was so stupid, how could they not figure that out?” or would you have thought “huh” in the moment and moved on with your life? Maybe even felt some empathy for them.

    Plus, they asked you, so they didn’t know either. There are some people who never grow up after school, but the vast majority of people are just living their life. The people who haven’t? We don’t care what they think.



  • I’m always concerned about google maps because the alternatives suck, but google is making their services awful, one by one. I’m waiting for the day that google maps becomes terrible too. I do have openstreetmaps (using organic maps on android) and I fixed a few things about my local area there but it doesn’t have some of the features I’d like and it doesn’t seem like they have plans to add them.

    Just as an example, business reviews. I can use yelp but it is nice that it’s right there. Also, the user submitted things like speed traps, accidents, etc.