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Cake day: September 26th, 2026

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  • It’s always bothered me how incel’s are discussed when really, the group they are referencing are often sexually active but just deeply misogynistic. Meanwhile many people who are closer to the ‘forever alone’ crowd deserve genuine sympathy. Being lonely sucks, and being unable to ‘obtain’ a partner is lonely.

    Beyond that - some people will just throw out ‘incel’ as a catch all for “took issue with any pro-woman or pro-lgbt statement”.








  • If I could make 70% as much in a different field, I would have switched by now.

    I no longer enjoy my field as a profession. There is no “solving” anything anymore, it’s just prompting a bot and building tools that make it better and better at replacing me. But the reality is, without pursuing a masters in a different field, this is the most money I can make for the lowest amount of work. The field is dying and in the mean time we’re taking home standard salaries.

    Personally I’m pursuing a fintech specialty since IMO specializing is our last hope to survive the AI destruction. But I don’t enjoy it.



  • Self checkout in theory is better for both sides - business and consumer.

    That said most self checkout as implemented is insufferable. The modern experience is waiting 5 minutes for someone to clear out your order because you accidentally clicked the version of Limes that this store doesn’t sell, despite it being an option on the POS, or to tap no / decline on the 5 different “Donate? Round up? Bag? Survey? Phone number?” prompts, or for the POS to lock up because you scanned a single can 3 times rather than 3 cans once, or for the cart to lock up so you slam your shin into it because the camera determined you were a thief.

    Personally I avoid all self checkouts.