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Cake day: March 14th, 2025

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  • Set sail to the most habitable world outside of Earth! Whatever we deem the most likely exoplanet to be earthlike on the day our fusion drive starts the acceleration burn, that’s where I’d want to go looking if there’s a second evolutionary tree to explore.

    How did they solve heat management? Did they develop photon-sensing organs like we did? What’s the mechanism for passing genetic information between iterations (maybe they don’t call them generations)? Do they flap their meat to communicate, the way earth animals’ vocal tracts do? Are they made out of meat?

    And if there is no life, I’d learn a lot about geology, the local solar system and, subsequently back home, all the more appreciate what we’ve got going on Planet A ❤️




  • I’ve never noticed any effect after not having it for several months and I drink black tea as dark as possible (just short of using multiple teabags in a cup xD). Do you really notice that you’re more awake, like beyond placebo?

    I didn’t know it had caffeine until recently, so I think I just never got the placebo effect of “this should keep me awake” and apparently the residual effect, at least on me, is unnoticably small. When I learned, I avoided it for a while during the evening (even though I didn’t remember any effect, I wondered if maybe I sleep worse and just didn’t know to attribute it?), but I’ve since tried it out and there’s really no difference even if I drink it straight before going to sleep









  • Tried to help someone who has a stalker and no tech literacy and everything (email, photos, documents, everything) in a Google account that the stalker can access. Got nowhere because Google doesn’t let her control her own account, she sees spies everywhere by now (bad translation of an “open source licenses” menu sounded like “connected third parties” and she screenshotted page upon page of mysterious names) and can’t live her life, and there is no new phone to start fresh on or other options to get this cleaned up without nuking the remaining data further. Felt defeated, but maybe there’s another chance next week (the computer help sessions are weekly, people often don’t come back if we didn’t immediately find a solution). I’m going to be prepared for the next time someone has an issue like this 💪


  • We are 2 persons and use 1/10th of that. Since it doesn’t scale linearly (things like heating the kitchen happens only once no matter how many people move in), it sounds like enough energy for a household of more than 20 people, and while we heat mostly on gas (about 15% of our usage is supplementary resistive heating), everything else from showering to cooking is on electricity, so depending on your setup and climate, 80 kWh/day could supply a household of way more than 20 people

    They didn’t mention charging an EV and say everything besides AC and the clothes dryer runs on gas, so it’s either an uninsulated medieval castle size building retrofitted with a heat pump, or something is shorted to ground