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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Here we go again.

    All video content is in a language you don’t fully understand and with slightly unsynched subtitles.

    People always mispronounce your name.

    All interior floors and walls are covered in dirty carpeting with burn marks.

    Chairs creak when you move.

    Ingrown nails.

    Light psoriasis.

    Windows Vista is the only available operating system. Phones use the regular UI. Computers are locked using the Windows 8.0 UI.

    All touchscreens function as if you were using thin gloves.

    Keyboards have a 10% chance to repeat or ignore the last character you typed.

    Computers crash whenever you’re progressing writing an essay.

    Randomly organized huge everything stores.

    Frequent houseflies that walk all over you.

    You have to make phonecalls. The sound randomly interrupts and a few times when you try to repeat.

    All pens are cheap ballpoints with ink issues.

    Tinnitus.

    Dead pixels on screens.

    Conv calls always have someone with speakers and a malfunctioning microphone that lets you hear a garbled version of what you just said with a one second delay.

    Code documentation was never invented. Your job is to pay technical debt on random projects.

    An annoying relative is narrating your life.

    Stereo sound fluctuates in intensity between both sides.

    Slightly stale American bread is the only kind available.


  • I have so many ideas!

    Constant slight cheese and urea smell.

    One of your nostrils is always stuffed. They switch regularly.

    The only available tea is British. (sorry I hate bland black tea and bergamot)

    No hot meals.

    All cuttlery is either sporks or Korean chopsticks.

    All cooking knives are dull.

    The only available cooking methods are microwaves with dead zones and induction stoves with long cycles.

    Spices are forbidden.

    Everyone is left handed with specifically right handed tools.

    Everyone has ADHD. Medication is unavailable.

    Light itch that moves.

    Everyone needs glasses. They’re always greasy and the correction is slightly off.

    Everyone has a small bladder and there are always queues in front of restrooms. That might explain the smell.

    Everyone is on a sliding/rolling schedule.

    Non skipable ads are backed in physical objects.

    Shoes are all a size off.


  • The bimetallic strip in your rice cooker is always slightly off no matter how much you fiddle with it.

    You’re always stuck behing a tractor on small roads.

    Your text editor randomly uses a whitespace character whenever you press space.

    Everything is lighted with slightly old fluorescent tubes.

    Obviously pointless deskwork and frequent sync meetings that always include non technical stakeholders.

    Everyone sleeps on wonky old futons that haven’t been properly maintained.

    Food deserts.

    Everyone lives in old non sound insulated krushchevkas with loud neighbours.

    The landscape is an infinitely repeated template of an excessively concretised city.

    Constant warm overcast weather with high humidity and still wind.

    Everyone is always slightly sleep deprived.

    The water is always slightly too chlorinated and it doesn’t evaporate.









  • I live in buttfuck nowhere - France.

    We need cars because the railways were deemed not profitable. We need cars because investment in busses is often very limited (depending on where you live). We need cars because village markets are dying and we then have to go to the supermarket the town over.

    We need cars because of the capitalist atomisation of society.

    And even then, the vast majority of our trips are very short (< 40’ round trip’). The car we need the most is a very small, kinda lowtech electric one. But those don’t exist as much…

    In our 750 people village, I think we’d need about 1 car for every 3 to 5 families and 3 trucks.

    TL;DR: Rural people need cars. But we don’t need big ones for most of our usage. We need better public transportation. Personal car ownership is dumb and wasteful.





  • Shapillon@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.worldFilm Rule
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    4 days ago

    I’ve got some mild form of prosopagnosia (face blindness) and this happens to me all the time.

    An actor without a very recognizeable face sporting an unfamiliar haircut? I might recognize them 1h in or never at all.

    I really like the movie/serie convention of keeping the same clothes for a character. It helps me a whole lot.


  • It certainly does. Simply because bipolar disorder doesn’t magically create shit political views.

    Otoh it is very hard to be convinced in the long term that you need help. It’s a common phenomenon where people with bipolar disorder go off their meds during manic episodes.

    I agree that money helps like hell, especially in the US. Otoh you also need some support around you. And he strikes me as an incredibly lonely dude surrounded by sycophants…