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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • My dad was a high school English teacher for decades before taking an early retirement last year. Administration banned the Handmaid’s Tale, one of his favorite books to teach. He became a suicidal alcoholic and was pushed out. Thankfully, he’s much happier now that he’s sober and spends most of his time woodworking, but it never should’ve come to this.






  • I know a lot of people didn’t like it, but I loved Megalopolis. It’s so ambitious, has great cinematography, and it’s weird. I thought it was well acted and will be a cult classic in a decade. It is a little weird that the main character is the only person with a superpower (stopping time) and it has almost no impact on the story, but that just adds to the weird appeal for me.


  • A steel ball is not a ball bearing. A bearing is something that bears load and allows for motion, usually rotation. There are sleeve bearings which are just one material or journal bearings which have pressurized oil to separate the spinning shaft. A ball bearing is an assembly with rolling elements (balls, rather than rollers). Those steel balls are just called balls. The whole assembly is called a ball bearing. I used to work in bearing manufacturing and they were just called balls.



  • refraining from encouraging IP’s directly benefitting her could distract her or even send a message to her potential allies.

    I also think that isn’t worth it. You’re still letting some rich moron’s actions have too much sway over your mental health. What you’re describing is the most tiny of marginal gains. Her IPs are already dying in relevance. Your energy would be better spent telling people about how cool some other thing is rather than how bad HP is. If someone loves HP and it makes them happy, I see no benefit to raining on their parade.