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Cake day: May 31st, 2023

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  • In case you haven’t been to a library in a while (yes I know this post is a joke) they do way more than just books these days. Depending on the library you’ll get music, movies, videogames, computers, photography equipment, 3D printers, laser cutters, audio visual equipment, recording studios, meeting rooms, and probably other shit I’m forgetting about. Smaller libraries are obviously more likely to stick to the basics, but my suburban library where I used to live had nearly everything I mentioned.









  • I wonder if that’s legal. I would assume at this point someone somewhere has passed a law saying advertisements must be clearly and plainly seen as such. If reasonable people are even temporarily confusing ads for posts, that just feels like it’s probably illegal.


  • I went and checked and have discovered I’m the resident browser hipster.

    Ecosia.

    It’s a reskinned version of chrome or chromium or something where your default search engine is Ecosia. The Ecosia search engine is just Bing reskinned and the ad revenue you generate goes towards planting trees!

    I’ve been using it for quite a while, I’m probably responsible for a couple hundred new trees at this point, if not more. They keep a running tally for you but I’ve used the search engine on multiple devices and haven’t bothered to see if you can synch the tally across all of them.

    The entire project is up to 175,500,000 trees so far.



  • It depends on who you ask. The most committed vegans say yes, the less committed shrug their shoulders and don’t worry too much about it.

    Can you guess which kind I am?

    Well you’re wrong. I’m not vegan. I had to quit due to health reasons.

    Anyway, it’s not like being vegan is a religion; avoid animal products as much as you want. Every little bit helps, but I wouldn’t beat yourself up over the small stuff.

    Personally, I walked around in leather boots the whole time I was eating vegan, because leather is an extremely durable material with no suitable non-animal replacement. I still have those boots. I would have gone through multiple pairs of shoes were it not for those boots. I am very thankful to the cow or bull that had to give up its life so I could have those boots.

    Judging by the rest of the comments, yeah, not gonna be a popular answer.