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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I don’t know about proof but when you spend lots of time on a platform you naturally start to notice patterns.

    There was an essence of superficiality that permeated a lot of the content that I consumed on Reddit, even the niche subreddits.

    For example, on the movie or video gaming subreddits people would often ask for recommendations and I noticed a lot of the top comments were single word answers. They’d just say the name of the movie or game. There was no anecdote to go along with the recommendation, no analysis, no explanation of what the piece of media meant to them.

    This is a single example. But the superficiality is everywhere. Once you see it, it’s very hard to unsee it.






  • I can’t stand the topics you mentioned either and I make a big effort to filter them out whenever possible! There’s a tool called https://siftrss.com/ which can be the middle man between you and your RSS feeds. It allows you to filter out any articles containing black listed keywords which is super handy.

    My biggest frustration about modern RSS feeds is that the articles are often incomplete. Some clients are able to get the full feed anyway but it usually results in broken formatting.

    Here are my favorite news sources:













  • The worst car I’ve ever driven was also the best because it lasted me until I was able to get on my own two feet and afford a new one: Nissan Sentra 97’.

    • around 200,000 miles the engine literally began falling out from the bottom of the rusted frame. I took it to a mechanic and they ran a wire underneath to hold it in place. Drove it for 5 more years after that!
    • Driver side window would not stay closed during Chicago winters so I glued it shut.
    • Dashboard lights burnt out.
    • Muffler would scrape across the pavement as I courted my girlfriend (now wife) around town.