Shinji_Ikari [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I have this really shitty drip pot that cost 34 dollars 8 years ago. The drip valve broke off when I dropped the filter cone a couple years ago so now you have to wait until it’s good and done before you even think about taking coffee.

    It maximizes my micro plastic consumption but it simply won’t die.

    I grind my beans with an electric burr grinder that I have never cleaned and now it’s not outputting as much grinds as it should so I’ll have to give in and take it apart soon.

    I used to use this hand grinder daily for like 2-3 years. Its a really nice japanese one with ceramic burrs that I bought on impulse. I’m really glad I got the electric grinder as a gift.








  • I knew a few folks who were on the depressed side and I didn’t mean to lump them in. I saw a lot of it first hand and the behavior was different ime. Like the lazy kids were very “give me the answer” while the people having a seriously hard time were not pushy and sorta silently fell behind.

    A lot of my friends didn’t make it to graduation. It was really hard seeing it happen but they weren’t in a headspace to accept help. A couple times a month there’d be a classmate who would just stop showing up.


  • 10 years ago when I started college, I watched 100s of freshman lug their g*mer laptops into the lab for tutoring the night the intro CS class homework was due. They were too busy the rest of the week gaming to do the homework, so they began 4 hours before it was due and begged for help.

    Most of them didn’t make it to their sophomore year. I don’t feel that bad, the work load was not that heavy, the tutors were there every day of the week. I had a really hard time grasping programming at first, so I was there daily. The homeworks were given a week ahead of time, the lecture notes spelled out 80% of the solution, and the tutors loved to help. The students just didn’t want the help.

    This conjures a similar feeling. idk maybe I’m being a dick.




  • They never were and never advertised as such. There’s secret chat’s that only work from the originating device to the receiving device that are e2e.

    Group chats were never encrypted because they’re convenience chats, not places to tell secrets. IE you can look back at all the history and shared files from any device you log into. You can search for a message from 2 years ago to remember something that was discussed previously.

    I’m a big telegram defender because it’s the nicest cross platform chat app to stop your parents from creating the n+1th mms group chat from their iphones, torturing all android users. It’s also not a Meta app, and doesn’t have the nerd requirements of an actual encrypted chat.









  • This raw milk stuff is so weird to me.

    I have a friend who is overall completely lactose intolerant. Her parents live out in the boonies and used to have a deal with a small dairy farmer where the farmer would bring his cows by their field to graze and in return they’d get some free milk.

    This was raw milk, and my friend would have zero intolerance symptoms when she drank it. Weirdest thing. Eventually the farmer retired, but since they live so close to other farms, they’ll buy raw milk when they want to do a dairy based thing so my friend can participate.

    So like, raw milk is weird, I saw my friend chug an entire glass and not be rootin’ tootin’ all day, no stomach pain or anything. But they’re in a very unique situation where there’s exactly two steps in the supply chain and most people are not in that situation. It’s not their standard milk, just treat now and then.