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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Lol happy to help! Yeah, nowadays it’s easy to hit a gig in data usage without even realizing you’ve used any at all. I wish the unlimited tier were cheaper. It feels like we have gotten to a point where we should be able to use GPS or do a Google search without considering a cost. Kinda feels like if anything, they should be paying us for allowing into our pocket this ever changing billboard that scrapes our metadata. But that’s unrealistic to get anyone else onboard with, so I’ll settle for free connectivity to knowledge in exchange for advertising and spying on me.



  • I’ve been on Google Fi for 3 or 4 years and it’s been pretty much flawless. I’ve traveled to Mexico and Spain with it, and there’s a sort of calibration period of like 30 minutes before you have service in another country, but that’s literally the only time I’ve been without service for any period of time. My wife and I are on it and use very little data, so covering both phones is typically about $60/month. We usually have 5G service around our home in northern VA.

    Proof of bill cost:




  • Depends on the day. If I dismiss outliers where it’s less than 20 minutes, my average is probably about 90 minutes based on checking my app history over the past few weeks. A good chunk of that is typing comments, sometimes looking up a good link to include. I usually swipe through while skimming posts and open comments for a post once in a while, occasionally adding a comment in there. I rarely post anything but comments.

    Today I’m at 35 minutes and probably mostly done for the day.


  • I think there’s not really a hard and fast expiration date. I think it’s more of a probability gradient which can skew from person to person. Career bounceback depends on industry, fitness, credentials, network, etc. Love life depends on personality, looks, intent, intelligence, sense of humor, stability, etc. A loser in their 40s can’t even really compete with somebody in their 60s who’s on top of their shit.

    I think that if you’re concerned about this, therapy and/or meditation might help you to get uncomfortable enough to identify aspects of yourself that need work to improve. Small changes can yield big advantages in terms of tackling specific goals. Everybody can benefit from therapy, so don’t let some weird stigma scare you out of getting the best out of life.





  • I know that it’s not what you’re asking for, but I thought I’d chime in with a lateral solution. My wife and I live in an apartment building and neighbors can be pretty loud, plus I have rotating shift schedule so my sleep schedule slides drastically to support that. If the noisy environment is mostly outside, thick blackout curtains will also dampen a lot of sound. Otherwise, a fan will do a lot in terms of soothing white noise that also kinda masks other sounds. And finally, for the actual reason I started leaving this comment, there are pretty solid Bluetooth sleep masks that are designed to be comfortable and have battery that can last all night. My wife has one and it has really helped her out. You can also remove the electronics to wash the mask as needed.

    Again, I know that this isn’t what you were explicitly asking for, but it could solve your root concern all the same. Good luck!





  • Culture and society are going to leave you behind anyway so you may as well get used to missing out.

    Lmao mic drop. I could feel how barren your field of fucks for culture war bullshit has grown. Some people want to solve problems and some people just want to bicker over nonsense which saps bandwidth (intentionally or otherwise). Weaponizing fomo is a bit of a hail mary play, but if it jumpstarts the empathy then mission accomplished without exhausting yourself haha.



  • Absolutely. But it felt like I was having a stroke or something. I know a thing or two about comedy, but even a bad joke or a joke that I subjectively don’t find funny still registers as a joke. This strip has the cadence of a joke but without any actual joke happening. It’s like an AI-written comic strip. Any punchline would’ve made as much sense if not more. Better ones would’ve addressed the snail or the cat or the dog or some behavioral difference. Maybe the best one I can come up with off the top of my head is “People think that this is less strange than when he was walking a dog?” That at least has some commentary on the expectations of a relationship between cats and dogs, and that a cat taking a dog for a walk would be really strange, but at least some people walk dogs; nobody walks a snail. There’s an implication that people were upset before and now they’re not.

    Here though? Nothing. He just felt like drawing a cat taking a snail for a walk, I guess?


  • I must be an idiot because I don’t see what the joke here is. Accepting that I live in a world in which that cat does human things, I still can’t fathom that I’d see said cat walking a pet snail like how I would walk my dog, and my reaction would be to find that annoying and/or comment out loud to my dog that he’s annoying. He’s quiet and not bothering anybody. Is there context from the previous comic or something? I just don’t understand how somebody could make a living from doodling irrelevant non sequiturs. What’s annoying about a cat walking his pet snail? He’s not even in your way because you’re just sitting there on a park bench. Is it because he seems kinda smug about it? Like, this is how silly you look for having another animal as a pet. I don’t get it.