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Cake day: May 28th, 2024

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  • I hope that’s a joke, but if not…women freezing eggs have sometimes encountered huge, huge problems. Huge financial problems, a quick search says 10-15K & often reaching 20K per egg freezing, retrieval procedure. Then $800/yr storage. Then costs for thawing & use. Tbf I see some lower quotes from New Hope but it’s best to overestimate these costs & be pleasantly surprised when they’re lower.

    Freezing of eggs doesn’t guarantee a successful pregnancy or healthy/live baby. A woman boldly wrote a piece called ‘Freeze your eggs, free your career’ and experienced a terrible, across the board dozen egg failure. At least she had the humility to share her story with the world, so they can see & learn from it. Takes a big person to admit maybe they were wrong.

    I advise all wannabe future parents in their 20s to get to fucking. I don’t personally advise having children, but obviously 20s are peak time if you can swing it. Biologically. It’s not going to get any better.

    I am immensely grateful for the egg freezing technology, how you can use it to cheat the infertility of cancer treatments, other bad medical conditions. But it’s still a poor substitute for nature’s plan, no guarantees, and I don’t think it needs to be used by all women everywhere.



  • Not my country, but something that fascinated me in Greece. Greece is a land of honey…and marble rock. Beautiful, swirling, sparkly rock in all different shades. It is so terribly abundant that they use marble in place of concrete.

    To the Greeks, it is normal to use marble literally everywhere. They disrespect the beautiful stone, turning it into a curb on the street & slathering it in yellow paint. I saw a yellow curb that was cracked open - exposing the glittering marble rock inside. I found it so funny & sad that I took a picture. We love marble, we think it’s so decadent & fancy, it’s flooring in the finest hotels, businesses, and homes. These people just use marble everywhere; it’s just a rock to them. 😆

    It really puts things into perspective.



  • I mean I’ve just had a different experience than you, all of you. I have never had a Sony Xperia, but I’ve only heard good things.

    I have been concerned about going off of main line Samsung. I did it once for the OnePlus One, which was solidly alright at the time, but then I went right back to mainline. S8 Active, SGS 20 5G FE, then that was failing & I went to Motorola but that was buggy as shit & I went back to my 20 FE until I got the Oukitel Titan.

    Generally speaking, I don’t like buying a more niche product with limited support. And maybe the apps don’t work well. All of the mid, cheaper phones have bad batteries that don’t last very long, in no small part because I watch lots of videos & things that eat the battery.

    The Oukitel Titan is impressive, a little obnoxiously big & slightly buggy, but not having to plug it in every blessed night makes up for any gripes I’ve got. It will make for a great Android to do Android stuff when I buy the iPhone 17.




  • The latest cool things they have done: they’ve stopped being whiny little bitches & made their iPhones USB-C, with pressure from the EU. They’ve finally adopted Google’s RCS messaging protocol, which should allow Apples & Androids to play nicely together in texting.

    Both of these things were massively overdue; they were being arrogant & childish for years…

    Last but certainly not least: iPhones 15 & up (I think) have FREE “satellite messaging”. If you’re out in bufu & you’ve got no signal, simply put your iPhone out with a clear view of the sky…and your text messages will be relayed, received via satellite. This is a safety feature, not everyone knows it’s a thing, and personally I think it’s very, very cool.

    T-Mobile should also team up with Starlink so all T-Mo customers should get free satellite text messaging. Should. But modern iPhones have free emergency text messaging here & now; that’s worth more than any “Trust me, bro, it’s totally coming”.







  • Republicans hate Newsom, and I watched as Newsom recently refused to condemn transing the kids. One of the biggest, easiest softball questions in the Republican world. I can all but personally guarantee you he’s not going to run as a Republican. 😂 He’d crash out…so friggin hard.

    I believe he’s doing a lot of face time with Republicans, Conservatives in a bid to court the moderates & the middle. I also believe he’s going to run for something, probably President. But he’s going to portray himself and run as a “moderate”, “common sense” Democrat. Just you wait & see.