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Cake day: November 8th, 2025

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  • I can’t say I know the answer but a few ideas:

    • did you access it with a browser? Maybe it snitches on you or some extension does?
    • did you try to resolve it with a public DNS server at any point (are you sure nothing forwarded the request to one)?

    You could try it again, create the domain in the config and then do absolutely nothing. Don’t try to confirm it works in any way. If you don’t see the same behaviour you can do one of the above and then the other and see when it kicks in. If it gets picked up without you doing anything…then pass!


  • If you’re unsure what the vet said, call them back to clarify.

    Ask them to tell you what treatment they’re recommending exactly and why, what are the alternatives if any and what are the short and long term effects of each, as well as any side effects and risks.

    Once you got all that and still unsure or concerned, see another vet and ask for a consultation for a second opinion.

    Treat it the same as if your doctor told you that you need operation.


  • I never pre-order, there is no benefit.

    Early access is misleading, there are games which are “released” and would barely count as early access and vice-versa, so I just treat them equally.

    The criteria for me is that based on reviews or some gameplay footage it seems like I can get £1/hour worth of enjoyment out of it. I tend to look for how many hours do people have when they leave reviews and how many have they played since, rather than just what they say. If I’m unsure if I’ll like it and there is not enough videos or reviews to give me certainty, i may take a risk on £10 and below games depending on how bored I am at the time.



  • It feels like this is treating symptoms, however helpful it may seem in the short term.

    Obesity in pets is 100% the fault of the owner, although pet food manufacturers don’t make it easy… I have 2 cats whose breed is well known for being commonly overweight but they’re both at their ideal recommended by the vet. It did take effort to find healthier food for them and the correct amount, as well as build up their habits that they get as much as is in their bowl and nothing more regardless of the amount of complaining. It’s the same logic as with humans, count the calories going in and adjust that - except pet food manufacturers don’t often disclose even an estimate.

    Outside cats are a divisive topic already though, in those cases it’s arguable whether the owner is solely responsible for it all (due to the decision to let them out) or the other people who also feed the clearly well fed cat a 2nd and 3rd meal because they’re trying to befriend it or it “looks hungry”.

    If we could just have a “don’t feed someone else’s pet unless you’re asked to” mentality + people would research good food for their pets as a standard it’d go a long way imo and it seems safer than putting animals on drugs.


  • I’m not vegan myself but I had asked a similar enough question to a vegan friend a while ago and liked his answer:

    He said for him it’s 2 parts, 1 is that while the animal that died may not have been harmed by humans, the ecosystem that relies on scavenging carcasses will be hurt if humans effectively start removing their entire food source (same way we have driven species to extinction by hunting).

    The 2nd part is that with humans everything with even the tiniest loop hole will get abused… Imagine that we say this is okay. Today it may be the odd naturally deceased animal, in a month it’ll start including animals “killed accidentally”, in a year it’ll be someone farming animals with some weird way of culling them so they can claim it’s still natural causes by some twisted logic… at the end of it we’d just not be able to trust any of it anyway so it’s easier to not even entertain the thought - the energy to figure it all out would be better spent on improving alternatives.