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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’m seeing a lot of judgement on pretending Santa exists vs being 100% truthful with your kids. I don’t think either way is a bad way, but don’t judge others if they choose to pretend Santa is real.

    With that being said, I do agree that if you are going to go with the Santa story, when the kid asks if they are real you should be truthful.

    I just went through this with my 9 year old. She just came up one day and asked me if Santa was real and I told her no. There were a lot of follow up questions and it made her realize the tooth fairy, Easter Bunny, etc were the same situation. She asked me why we pretended Santa was real and I explained for us it was nice to see the magic that they felt from a stranger being kind just for kindness sake.

    For me personally, I think it’s a good lesson for kids to begin logically questioning their world and what they’ve been told.




  • Twitter’s definition of state-affiliated:

    How state-affiliated media accounts are defined

    State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. We will also add labels to posts that share links to state-affiliated media websites.

    Conspiracy theories aside, AFAIK there’s no evidence that any level of the US government exercises control over NPR.








  • I remember wanting to play one of the Ultima games so badly on an old Win95 PC, but the game wasn’t fully compatible and would play at like 5x speed. I see so many people reminiscing about how great the games were back in the day and it makes me a little sad I couldn’t figure out the issue at the time.

    I’d be all for a remake just so I could experience the stories.


  • I deployed a few of these. They were 10 years behind the curve. The monitor weighed as much as a flat panel from 15 years ago, the stand was fucking HUGE making it hard to move. The camera and microphone were an afterthought and not worth using (the mic would pick up every little touch on the Jamboard). The entire thing felt like it was built for design first rather than function