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Cake day: April 8th, 2025

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  • Back in 1995, my family got our first computer, and despite being a kid at the time, computer maintenance fell in my lap because I quickly became the most tech-savvy person in the household.

    Computers in '95 still had a lot of rough edges and so I found myself needing to call tech support on occasion. On one such occasion I got a guy on the line who immediately jumped on the opportunity to be a dick because he could tell I was a kid.

    After describing my problem, he asked when the last time I ran a defrag was. (The problem had nothing to do with this.) When I replied that I didn’t know what a defrag was, he busted out laughing for like a full minute, and I could hear him telling his buddy and they started laughing again. He also blamed my problem on this, of course.

    So yeah, that’s my defrag story I guess.


  • Making everyone on earth richer is how it’s supposed to work. Not like millionaires, more in the sense that gold is a resource that requires us to ration it in a sense, and we would be able to use the cheaper gold to make all lives better.

    That an influx of gold wouldn’t do this is an indictment on our economic system.