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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • Illegal Immigrant: It’s okay, Trump isn’t talking about me he’s talking about foreign people not in the US. Make Mexico pay for the wall!

    Temporary immigrant: It’s okay, Trump isn’t talking about me he’s talking about visa-less illegal immigrants. Those are the dangerous hombres, not me.

    Legal immigrant/Permanent Residents: it’s okay, Trump’s team is only going to revoke temporary migrant visas. Those people need to go through the proper channels and suffering like I did, shortcuts are unfair!

    Puerto Ricans who are literally Americans born and raised: It’s okay, I’m an actual American, Trump’s not talking about me! They’re letting too many immigrants from other countries!!

    Puerto Ricans after they realize Trump thinks they are immigrants from another country: 😳





  • Your election process may vary, but usually mail in ballots are in a certification envelope with your name, address, and often a declaration of eligibility, voter signature and witness. Digital methods may have a barcode encoding this information, easily readable only by an election official.

    That identification can be used to trace your ballot if damaged/lost and to check for eligibility and that you only voted once.

    The contents are then removed from the certification envelope and the secrecy envelope containing the ballot is added with other votes and anonymised.




  • Good showing for NDP in Regina and Saskatoon. However, Sask Party has a convincing majority mandate from the rest of the province. I guess they want to keep the province in irrelevance for 4 years.

    SK-NDP are in a good position for next time, now that they know the real battlegrounds to win and the resources they will be provisioned from the legislature.

    I guess the BC election is essentially the same story with parties flipped. The opposition coming together in a surprise wave of momentum, the incumbent holds the majority but by a surprisingly close margin.








  • A lingering question in my head about these Amazon and Home Depot bargain bin products. The ecosmart 80cent bulbs I have commonly fail by just becoming dim just like this guy’s. Well I can’t expect too much from bottom dollar quality.

    TL:DW
    • Amazon product that failed after 15 months with the seller nowhere to be found, didn’t work because of a bad connection.
    • ecosmart likely a shorting resistor, not enough voltage from the driver chip getting to LEDs that are working just fine.
    • utilitech pros had better heat dissipation and more parts, but found no clear failure mode and he busted the thing anyway diagnosing how it handled mains voltage.




  • One time I played a Mario Party 8 minigame against my family, a rather simple game where you shoot 5 cards and you get to either add to or multiply your score.

    I’d very quickly figured out that there’s a maximum score and the two ways to obtain them. We practiced once and I intentionally shot whatever cards as a misdirection while the others were trying to figure out a good combination. My advantage was specifically not giving out any hints and trying to quickly going from practice to the real game with only 30 seconds to think.

    I won that, there was only a little grief given to me about it, but I felt so bad. It was then that I realized I didn’t like winning by intentionally withholding or giving bad advice. From then on I revealed these sorts of tricks, if only myself knowing about them would be an unfair advantage.