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Cake day: June 5th, 2025

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  • Brave owns an ad network and that’s all I need to know to never use any of their products.

    There are other comparable options that have better companies behind them.

    Kagi’s Orion has not given me a reason to hate them except that it isn’t open source. They don’t sell your data and they don’t serve ads.

    I can use uBlock on Orion,






  • I know this is a controversial take but regular Alcoholics Anonymous is also a bit of a cult. It does a lot of good but there are aspects of it that don’t sit right with me.

    My dad became a radically different person after attending AA, and not all for the better. He became deeply religious and a bit paranoid. He called me once and told me I should hide ramen noodles and bottled water under my bed and to not tell my roommate about it. That was meant for me when the world ended. He started donating money to some kind of Jewish/Israeli fund.

    He quit his job out of nowhere and then didn’t go back to work at all, living in the remains of his retirement fund. He died about a year later at the age of 50.

    I’m sure he has his own mental health issues and that behavior wasn’t all from attending AA, but my sister and I do believe AA contributed to some of it.

    I’m glad it works for some people. I don’t want to discourage anyone from seeking help, but choose who you follow with caution.











  • Wait until you find out between the discrepancy between House districts across states. Theres a special formula used to calculate the number of districts each state gets but it’s kinda BS and still ends up with unfair distribution.

    It’s all because it was capped in the early 20th century instead of just being properly rebalanced.

    WI has 1 house rep for every 575k people and CA gets 1 for every 750k people. If it was distributed evening based on the state with the lowest population, CA would get something like an extra 15 votes.

    *Note - My numbers could be off a bit. I actually did the math myself several months ago. I didn’t look it up to write this, I just am remembering off the top of my head