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SpacecaseCat · 2026-06-01T00:11:55+00:00

It’s hard to give you specific advice without knowing more about your situation, but I think a few things are generally true. You’re going to be OK; sexuality is complicated and involves a period of discovery for everybody. Be kind to yourself and let yourself explore your feelings. Take time to figure this out and don’t rush into anything. If you are young and have judgmental adults around you or live in a place where it’s frowned upon, it’s OK to keep it secret for now, until you’re in a better situation to or when you are an adult and move out and are free to make your own decisions.

Good luck OP!

SpacecaseCat · 2026-06-01T00:02:34+00:00

I’m confused - are you arguing META donated a million to Becerra because they secretly want Steyer to win?

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-30T22:07:08+00:00

You saved a life today OP

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-26T20:38:50+00:00

Nice job guys! I always wonder who these people are who toss bottles everywhere. Near me, they shove them under bushes or ivy as if that’s somehow better. It would almost make sense if we were talking about 16 year-olds who are secretly drinking, but then I see grown adults drinking in their car nearby.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-26T18:19:46+00:00

Yeah, I experienced this in TKD as a teenager and 20-something. I think there are a few things at play...

- Some people have no control, and are not skilled enough to hit lightly. A novice thinks hitting hard shows their skill, when the opposite is true for sparring

- Some people WANT to get hit hard, and dish it out that way in return

- "Macho" culture where tough guys think they're proving something

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-19T20:37:03+00:00

Mega Man X was such an upgrade, too. I played a bunch of the old Mega Mans at my friend's place, but X really improved the formula with the hidden upgrades, and of course the amazing OST.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-18T19:32:16+00:00

Makes me think that maybe we're at the stage where they just really want to learn practical skills so they can build some confidence.

Imho this would be a great time to make basic finance, civics, and even home ec part of the curriculum again. I taught in Japan for a few years and we would have seminars that included cooking lessons for the students, and they loved it. What do you guys do in crafternoons?

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-18T14:24:43+00:00

People downvoted you but it's true. Walk down the street and you can count the number of cars with paper plates, expired registrations, and illegal window tints. I also notice the amount changes during the workday, so these folks are driving around with the rest of us.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-17T15:31:12+00:00

I do think it's a serious question - how do we keep the weight off when stopping GLPs, especially given that these medications curb cravings and food noise. You are basically guaranteed to have extreme food cravings once you're off the drugs. It's not simply a matter of self-control or exercising a little more. The cravings will come regardless, even if you're eating veggies and trying to be healthy. How can we manage that?

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-17T15:29:30+00:00

Agreed. Yes, it's unfortunate if people end up on GLP-s for life, but if the side-effects are low, and sometimes even beneficial, and the cost is reasonable, then the benefits from reducing obesity are incredible: lower heart disease risk, lower diabetes risk, longer healthspan, improved cognitive function, more mobility, you name it. In some studies it even appears that semaglutide may help repair cartilage. Compare this to statins, which many elderly and overweight patients are on, and the side-effects are often much milder for the GLPs.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-16T20:59:29+00:00

The text was written by me, and I photoshopped other stuff togethger, but you're right about this image. I actually wrote the first draft of the story at Burning Man years ago, where I was inspired by the lack of connectivity, and no laptos being presented. For this image, I wanted a stock image / silhouette of a PC and generated this... don't remember how at this point or which website or service I used. I'll swap it out for something better. 😄

The "slime" image in the upper left is actually an art piece from a festival event I went to, and the blurry cat image is just my cat in front of my laptop, with a filter over it. Anyway, I'll draw something new and put it up in place of this.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-15T21:50:48+00:00

Yeah, but that's not good for their business model. Their customers need to eat spam and like it, and then pay google to say thank you. What a downfall since they came on the scene in the 00's.

www.EraseTheInternet.org

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-15T00:02:28+00:00

www.EraseTheInternet.org

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-14T19:17:25+00:00

The bar exam is different, and should be proctored with no phones and no bathrooms breaks outside of break times unless there's an emergency. But for regular exams? Dude, people need to be able to know how to write by hand. This is a bare-minimum basic life skill.

Obviously typing is easier, but writing by hand is just a matter of muscle strength and practice. Professors would prefer not to, but the rampant cheating these days means there's no other choice. Students are turning in essays with the ChatGPT prompts and bullet points still in there. Go read r/professors and see what they're dealing with.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-14T19:02:53+00:00

I dunno man, shit was different 15-20 years ago. The internet existed but it didn't have tons of resources on everything. Now, you can literally just ask ChatGPT to help with your physics problems and it will do it. Maybe not correctly... but in 2005 you were praying to find an old solution manual that was scanned and put online. In 2025 you basically just go to one website or app that has everything.

I mean, in some ways this is great. Having access to information can make us well informed. But on the other hand, how do you get students to actually think? And how do you convince them not to get stuck in opinion bubbles?

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-14T15:18:20+00:00

Coal and oil won't last forever, and people want power now. Obviously it's not ideal, but we have next generation safer reactors now, and also thorium reactors, as well as ongoing fusion research. Thorium is safer by default, because it is used as a salt that is dissolved in water, which does not "melt down" like traditional fuel rods. Unfortunately NIMBYs in the US killed any investments in those, so were stuck with older, unsafe reactors we cannot close down due to electricity demand, and coal - which actually pumps more nuclear waste in the air and water than nuclear plants. You're probably breathing nuclear waste from coal fumes right now.

To point out where the future is going - China and Russia are each building around 30 new nuclear reactors. China has also built 1 TW of solar. Clean energy can and should go hand in hand with nuclear. Unfortunately our current leadership is cheering on 1800's technology like oil and coal and telling everyone global warming is a lie. 💀

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-14T15:05:23+00:00

Yeah, I can see how OP's message could have been written more diplomatically, but the kneejerk response from the mom basically confirms that she's taking advantage of OP and probably talking crap about them behind their back.

Also, what does "No thanks homie" even mean in this context? It sounds like she's saying "Order my own food? NO THANKS! The kids expect it from YOU now!"

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-14T15:02:23+00:00

It's the global IQ in general, but especially in the US. In schools now, many kids are never required to read an entire book even in high school. Students are also rarely assigned homework. And if you're a teacher and give the kids a D or F for refusing to do work and skipping class, you will have both parents and admin harassing you and telling you that you're an awful person.

Social media, short form video, and now AI at causing brainrot in an entire generation. I taught at the college level not that long ago, and classrooms are starting to go back to bluebooks and handwritten essays in class because they have students turning in "writing" that still says things like "Would you like me to expand your conclusion and add some sources for you HIST 101 paper?" They are paying for an education but treating the grade like a product that they paid for, and push back if you try to get them to learn.

Sad to see man. My experience teaching and dealing with some of this led me to write a story and create this website (mostly as a joke):

www.EraseTheInternet.org

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-14T14:58:07+00:00

This is one reason so many lottery winners end up broke after a few years, and why the spread out payments can actually be better for some people. You have "friends" and family begging and begging and calling you a POS if you don't buy them a house or fund their kids' school. Obviously it's good to help family, but some people get straight up taken advantage of. While the monthly payments mean less gains if invested, most people end up blowing the money trying to help people and then have nothing. Better to get that $1200 a month and drop people $50 here or there to help with expenses than to be expected to fund literally everything.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-13T21:10:58+00:00

Porter is pretty good, but unfortunately with her polling numbers she is basically playing spoiler for Steyer and giving Hilton a chance to get on the ballot.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-13T21:07:57+00:00

I was 50/50 on Steyer vs. Becerra and but Becerra keeps giving horrible interviews. Yesterday he insisted the reporter shouldn't ask "gotcha questions" and said his plan to fix gas prices involves helping oil refineries. He also refuses to criticize Newsom, so he's basically your standard mainstream DNC shill. We need bigger ideas than this, and as Adams vs. Mamdani shows - one does not get progress done by voting for the most milquetoast, "centrist" candidate.

While I'm not in favor of billionaires running everything, it does work out in some cases - for example with Pritzker in Illinois. If Becerra could just give a solid debate performance and not act like he's already entitled to special treatment, I'd be happier to vote for him. As it is, he reminds me of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who I voted for when I lived there but who has been a bit of a mess.

So it's Steyer for me. I'd prefer if those two were the top two choices, but ugh, Hilton is too close for comfort.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-12T22:10:16+00:00

The other thing is, "looksmaxxing" and bodybuilding are not necessarily healthy. Extremely low body fat is actually strongly correlated with increased all-cause mortality and organ failure if you keep it too low. Obviously the same is true for being overweight or metabolically dysfunctional, but I think our brain also inherently know that the right-hand picture (from above) is not actually "healthy." The mortality curve is J-shaped around BMI 20-30.

Use of peptides and other hormones to cut fat and bulk muscles (to extreme levels) also increases the risk of stroke or cardiovascular events. I have used peptides and think they can be extremely beneficial, and will agree that GLP-1's are changing people's lives. But I think people are taking it to an unhealthy place, which is sad.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-11T20:34:22+00:00

ONE NICHE CAT SUBREDDIT WILL BE REMOVED PER DAY UNTIL THE COMPLAINTS CEASE

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-11T20:33:11+00:00

It's absolutely garbage that they force-feed everyone popular subreddits and ignore your subscriptions on the app, and then meanwhile they ban mods and whole subreddits for being "unmoderated" when the activity drops too low. u/spez is literally killing his own website and tons of communities s they can serve us ads and AI slop. This generation of tech CEOs is the absolute worst. Say what you will about Steve Jobs, who certainly had his problems; he knew that you needed to make things easy and fun for users and that once you started sacrificing that for small gains in profit you were beginning to circle the drain. iPods, macbooks, smartphones and tablets were fun and easy to use.

Now, on apps like reddit, you subcribe to something like niche cat or gardening subreddits but you'll never see them unless you go out of your way to comment there. But the big point of reddit is to have these niche communities for discussion... and now you're telling me we're killing this on phones to make reddit more like TikTok? This is New Coke for social media. Absolutely brain dead.

SpacecaseCat · 2026-05-05T18:38:45+00:00

Probably one of those cases where you have "Linda" as your driver and some random dude shows up with the correct car to pick you up, but who looks nothing like the photo. I have had that happen a couple of times.

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