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Cake day: June 25th, 2025

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  • I hate bright screens. On my phone I used the accessibility options to set up a trigger to reduce white point, turned it down decently far, and it’s easily the best QoL adaptation I’ve ever made re: screens.

    Only downside is it’s very difficult to tell what is in darker pictures. But because it’s on a trigger I can toggle it on and off very very easily.

    I genuinely wish I could do the same thing with my tv with just a simple trigger… I know I can alter the brightness and contrast and stuff but I’d have to mess with so many options, spread across so many sub-menus (fuck you, googletv OS, you suck super hard. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are there multiple settings menus???), to get it anywhere near what I want that it’s not really worth doing (I just crash it down to zero brightness, it’s adequate, I guess, but it’s no white point reduction…)


  • I got pulled over the other day. The reason given was a lane change violation (which was bullshit pretense, it was right outside a very rural, but very busy, bar so this was likely actually entrapment, tho I was for sure under the legal limit - I was there to check out line dancing because I’ve never seen it before, and only had one beer in the hour I was there).

    I also had a very expired registration (haven’t driven much, and didn’t realize I forgot to renew it).

    But I got let off everything with a warning…? I spent days trying to figure it out because it should have been a ticket… he didn’t even seem interested in waiting for me to dig out my insurance info (which I had, just had to get it out of my wallet).

    But I have a dash cam… and it records sound. It would have proven I didn’t violate anything, and he was recorded saying why I was pulled over so no way to flub it and say it was actually the registration all along, and thus the pretense for pulling me over in the first place was void. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason I got off with a list of warnings rather than tickets.




  • I really hope what they mean is clean water.

    It can happen; there’s a paper mill by me that was actually an important part of the river cleanup process when the river was far worse than it is today. It takes water from the river, uses it for their needs, then treats it and returns it to the river far far cleaner than they took it out, which has been a net benefit for the entire downstream river ecosystem. That plan, and their follow-through, is the only reason that mill exists at all.

    Thing is, where are they going to find this not-particularly-clean water to treat and return? Are they going to need all new infrastructure built to accommodate this?

    And why is that cheaper/easier/whatever than just making a closed loop cooling system, which they could have done from the being…