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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Second this. Looks like an orb weaver shifting between dimensions to place their surprisingly strong web directly in front of someone’s face as they walk through two objects an arbitrary distance apart.

    I had one that would make it’s web from a trees branches to the ground, the diameter was around 10 ft. It was absurd how hard that little gal was working just to catch a meal.


  • You want earplugs that dampen above a certain threshold. That rules out most earplugs because they always dampen all sound.

    Surefire EP3s have a removable plug that allows for dampening below 85db, but will take them up to 24NRR with the plug in. I don’t know if they actually rate the unplugged NRR, from what I remember it was 16-18 when I got mine. Don’t think you can swap protection levels easily, you practically have to take them out to plug them. You do also need to replace them once or twice a year. Surefire has others of a similar design that you may want to look into as well, I am only personally familiar with the EP3s.

    Loops has caught my eye as a possible option to go to instead of EP3s, but I haven’t bit the bullet on them.



  • Amazon is a marketplace.

    If you go to the flea market and buy a laptop that is bad, does that mean everybody selling laptops at the flea market is selling a bad product?

    There are solid sellers on Amazon and there are shady scam sellers on Amazon.

    My advice for your best chances of buying what you are expecting to buy is to go through an authorized reseller of the laptop you are looking for. I bought my last laptop from Newegg and got what I paid for.


  • I would buy up as many apartments as possible and lower the rent below market value, this driving other landlords to compete. Since they could not maintain a “sustainable” business model with their profit driven mindset, they would sell and I would buy. I would still seek a modest profit, which would be rolled into further acquisitions to further infect the market with sanity. It would be a McDonald’s or Walmart approach to housing, positive effect by volume and low margins, but actually provide an undeniably good product.

    I would also work with local businesses to offer discounts to residents of the apartments and employees of other businesses that also wish to partner, with the end goal of creating incentive to shop local and increase foot traffic, and therefore profits for those small businesses.

    I would find residents who would be interested in starting a business, startup costs covered by my organization, and outcompetes with businesses who do not wish to be our partner. I would endeavor to provide free childcare and animal daycare/boarding. Ideally a pseudo private and free school system could be established to further promote the ideals of the community. Ideally provide free therapy. Ideally offer scholarships to traditional higher education or trade schools. Ideally create a system to help homeless people get back on their feet.

    Overall the end goal would be to keep as much money within the local economy and maintain businesses that embody the values which create a healthy local economy, lower the costs of living, and restore the community to a healthy social state.

    Or maybe I’ll just start a sex cult in the woods.