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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • The dichotomy between the left and right on these kind of issues are probably more economic than anything else.

    The people I know that freaked out about these sort of things were typically maga types. Lower income, lower education, and relied on social media for all kinds of news, human contact, and such.

    Meanwhile most liberals and conservatives that didn’t, lived more comfortably with higher career and education levels. This isn’t even really a left wing vs right wing kind of thing. Even the conservatives I knew that had higher education and career accomplishment freaked less out about Covid and social media “censorship” too because they could just do without.

    If you can live comfortably and it doesn’t affect your living, you tend to not rock the boat












  • I basically was able to get my fill by watching the local games OTA and the Thursday prime games via twitch tv (broadcast by Amazon for free) and then Sunday Night on NBC (and ABC carried a huge amount of Monday Night games last season) I purchased NFL+ on thanksgiving to watch the end of season games that were on NFL network. I just missed out on the peacock/netflix/paramount games last year and will again this year.

    I spent $10 total to watch NFL games last year and that’s all I will ever spend







  • I don’t think it’s really taken off in just the last week. Or at least I haven’t noticed it being used more frequently than ever.

    You may be experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

    You know, where you notice something, and start seeing it everywhere. It hasn’t actually changed in frequency, you just are noticing it more frequently now.

    This happened to me recently after noticing an obviously AI generated text that mentioned the phrase “masterclass” and then all of a sudden every YouTube game review or video essay or blog post were using it too and it was driving me nuts. Now obviously it was those sources that the AI was trained on that made it use masterclass so often, but I’ve been turned off by the phrase so much that I will forever avoid it in my own writing from now on.