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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • It’s not as hard as you think to start, but it takes forever. I used to wait until stuff broke and needed replacing. I’d open it up and “try to fix it” knowing that I was going to break it worse and that I was buying a new one anyways. Looked up a lot of videos on YouTube.

    Little by little I leaned to take things apart and put them back together without breaking them worse (mostly). Then I started to buy cheap Amazon spare parts to try to fix things without taking a big risk. Again I figured if I could buy a few more months of use it would be worth the risk.

    After about 20 years I have a lot more confidence and have a pretty good success rate for household repairs and probably 30% for broken appliances. Sometimes shit is irreparably fucked, sometimes it’s still beyond my skill. When I fix something I usually get a couple of extra years out of it. It’s a nice hobby, save a few bucks sometimes. Better than spending an afternoon on the Internet.


  • I had a dryer like that. Ancient thing. Simple as fuck too, unlike modern dryers with 1000 features. I replaced just about every part on that thing, sometimes multiple times. Finally the control board broke and it started turning on the heating elements without running the fan. Damn dryer tried to burn my house down. Can’t get the boards anymore.

    I almost shed a tear putting that dryer to the curb.


  • Recognising the “AI voice” isn’t just the voice. It’s also the clearly “written by AI” circuitous script that keeps talking without saying anything and non-stop clickbait “but wait until you find out what the answer is” crap.

    The other type of AI voice is people just stealing Reddit stories and putting them to AI. Also lame. I want my stories narrated with human emotion. The point of stories isn’t to transfer knowledge, it’s an art form, I don’t need shitty robot emotions thank you very much.

    So no, the use case for AI voice is very narrow. Some of my favorite YouTubers use text narration. Maybe they don’t like their voice, or speak a different language, I don’t know, I’ve literally never heard them. It doesn’t stop them in the least from showing me amazing things. They don’t need to resort to polluting their video with the lowest garbage idea humans have created so far.

    I’d like to see a video that is improved by the use of any AI.





  • Do both. The people in Washington aren’t going to Philly. Don’t let him get unspoiled parade footage so he can act like the county supports him. Force him to use violence to suppress peaceful protestors. Let the whole country see him hurt Americans for his selfish deeds. Throwing a military parade for his birthday like fucking Kim Jong-Un. Force him to use the US military to hurt Americans and see how that goes.

    Don’t give them an inch. Resist every action, everywhere, everytime, at every level.