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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Do something or go somewhere neither of you has been or done before.

    If it’s enjoyable for both of you, you win. If it’s not fun, you get to bond with each other over not liking it.

    People naturally bond when experiencing something together for the first time and feel the same way about it. If you feel the opposite about the experience, then you know you are less likely to be compatible.

    The most important part is to be honest about how you feel about the experience, and be honest immediately if you don’t like it. “This is terrible, right?”

    My marriage is the result of several weeks exploring the town. Other dates were not honest about not liking something, and the relationship didn’t last. Wife to be felt the same way about places we tried as I did. If it was a terrible experience and we both thought so, it would bring us closer together just as much as a positive one. In fact, the terrible experiences were sometimes the best because we would laugh together about how bad it was. It’s like taking a compatibility test.






  • A smart man always knows what to say, a wise man knows when not to say it.

    It’s the life equivalent of typing out a comment only to then delete it and move on.

    Just because you know something, or know a better way, doesn’t mean you have to tell everyone. That mental exercise plays into my other tool: Let them.

    Let them be wrong, let them fill the silence they created, let them get bent out of shape, and let them try to figure it out. Sometimes, they’ll get to where you already are; other times, they’ll figure out an approach you didn’t even consider, or you’ll realize that you were the one who was wrong the whole time. Let people be people. Listen, look, learn, and then, when you’re ready, when it’s needed, lead.

    Oh, and don’t give people answers to questions they didn’t ask. They’re less likely to listen to you. When they’re ready for the answer, they’ll ask.

    It was tough not to delete this comment, but I’ll let the paradox stand as is.





  • A lot Please, please, please, someone check my googled physics and AI math:

    E = mc² = 1 kg × (3×10⁸ m/s)² = 9×10¹⁶ joules (90,000,000,000,000,000 joules)

    or

    ~21.5 MEGAtons of TNT (by comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was ~15 KILOtons)

    It would have a temperature of ~1.2 × 10²³ K (1,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Kelvin) The sun is a 5,772 Kelvin.

    Like a ‘small’ star, it would radiate energy of about ∼3.6×10³² Watts (3,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 W) The sun puts out about 3.8x10²⁶ Watts (380,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 W)

    Final burst duration: less than ∼8×10⁻¹⁷ seconds, or slightly faster than it takes for your mom to drop her panties.

    Now for the best part. All of that energy would emanate from a very, and I can’t express this enough, very tiny spot, like a billion times smaller than a proton:

    ~1.5×10⁻²⁷ meters

    A proton is about 10⁻¹⁵

    From seemingly nowhere, instant God-boom. I like to imagine that whatever was next to it would just disappear, and then the shockwave would happen.

    Again, I googled and used AI to run the code for the calculations, so…you know, correct me and downvote.








  • That’s what I keep telling kids, we’re not evolved to live this way. It doesn’t feel right because your a round peg in a square building. We’re evolved for tribe life, telling stories around the fire, cooking food for each other, helping out our small communities, together. Singing and dancing and story telling, caring for our soil and water and animals. Yes we should go to the stars, and test the boundaries of reality, but we won’t get there and feel like we really did something worth doing without being who we truly are, free to love, free to wonder, free to explore, free to be alive, free to be just happy. It isn’t worth it if we aren’t happy. We need to find out happy place again if we’re going to survive the next few centuries.


  • I think it’s not feasible to search for anti -trump content and then track down the person, but is much more likely that once they have you they will check your phone to see if you are a dissenter. So any interaction with federal or local authorities will be risky from now on. I just saw a headline of a French scientist being denied entry after immigration searched her phone and found anti Trump messages. If anyone has advice on how to quickly wipe or lockdown a phone, PC, etc. please share. OpSec