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Cake day: January 9th, 2025

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  • Some friends own a farm in Pennsylvania. They will tell you their food is “grown organically” but they can’t say it’s “organic” because that is an official certification endowed by the USDA. To be “organic” many requirements must be met (which they do), the last of which is to pay a hefty fee to the USDA (which they don’t). The way they phrased it, the fee is so high they can’t afford it.

    So all their food is organic in every way except the name. It would be illegal for them to even say it’s organic aloud.

    In case there was any uncertainty that organic food is a scam, it is! The extra markup you pay goes straight to The Man. Fuck the USDA!








  • I used to pitch signal’s encryption first. I got into so many pointless arguments that I stopped even mentioning encryption. What’s signal? Its an app with group chat and video calls. That’s all you need to know.

    Two of my friends independently discovered the secret to converting their families to signal. Make it a premium form of communication. Tell people close to you that you check your whatsapp or facebook occasionally because of the spam volume… The best way to reach me is on signal.

    Had a kid this year and we don’t post pix of him to social media. They all get sent to a signal group. You want the baby pix? You get signal! Even his 90-year-old great grandma is in it.






  • I thought about building a gravity battery in my yard.

    The math is E = mgh. Not complicated. I think the conclusion was that to charge my cell phone from zero to 100% I would have to lower 1, 000 pounds from a height of 100 feet. Had to make some assumptions about my phone battery capacity… But still… Wildly inefficient.

    That was before losses and this video says the building is 80% efficiency.

    So whenever I see one of these grav batts actually being built, I wonder if they checked? I mean, it has some capacity but will it ever be worth the construction costs?