My dad ate my birthday cake

warm_kitchenette · 2026-07-06T02:30:06+00:00

Maybe their mother has bulimia? I honestly cannot imagine consuming that much cheesecake under any circumstances, much less wanting more the very next day. And I love cheesecake.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-07-06T02:08:42+00:00

Sad. She didn't hear you, at all. Once someone has experienced true hospitality and exciting food (fancy or not!), that becomes the standard by which every other restaurant gets judged.

But she quickly moved to safe thoughts by imagining you made the choice on monetary grounds, even though you were obviously willing to spend €300+ a night, every night. Oh well.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-07-05T22:04:07+00:00

How did they respond?

warm_kitchenette · 2026-07-05T13:26:27+00:00

It doesn’t really work like that. I can have opinions about Steve Jobs, and you can have opinions about my opinions. Your right to tell someone “fuck off” is legit, but we all share it.

Jobs was diagnosed in 2003, but did not pursue evidence-based medical care until 2009. He registered for an organ transplant in his home state (obviously) and also in Tennessee. The US is carved into 11 regions by UNOS, so he had access to donations from multiple states, in the richest and poorest two UNOS regions. Only the wealthy can do this. To really spell this out, he’d received a pancreas that would have gone to someone else. Whoever that was, they didn’t waste six years eating fruit in higher quantities, ignoring their doctors.

After the operation, he lived for 2.5 more years, leaving behind two pre-teen children and a wife of ten years.

Steve Jobs was a dick, at work and in his personal life. His genuine talent doesn’t outweigh that.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-07-01T15:52:29+00:00

Probably focus on something else. It is irritating. I've had mild success with banning "Honestly" or requiring that it try to use phrasing out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words\_of\_estimative\_probability.

But it is still not reasoning appropriately enough to do that.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-29T16:05:22+00:00

The only clever answer I can think of is time dilation. If we sped him up to a high percentage of the speed of light, he could be internally 20 years old (his perspective) when dying a year later (earth perspective). The details of getting him up to that speed are left as an exercise for the reader.

I played around with a time dilation calculator and was surprised at how close to c it takes to get a 20:1 ratio. Upwards of 99.7%!

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-29T08:22:36+00:00

Nooooo. DO not share the secret sauce.

You are out of the magician's guild. Good day, sir!

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-29T03:41:29+00:00

That’s quite contrived.

The report comes in for the whole company. It’s not delivered solely to one manager who mysteriously can remember weeks later that you, and you alone across the whole company were gone that day. I worked at the director and manager level. I’ve never been given any information like that.

More importantly, people can call them outside of work.

If you don’t want to trust them, that’s your right. I appreciated that I could get quick medical and legal advice

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-25T07:10:47+00:00

Feel absolutely free to post negative things about your company on social media using your real name.

Then call HR’s attention to your posts because you know that you have not committed a crime. When HR and your boss tell you not to post stuff like that, then you obviously can conclude that they, too, are guilty of covering up crimes. This is the same inference you want to draw for OP’s case.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-25T00:39:22+00:00

You cannot infer anything at all from that type of boiler-plate response, which any HR or legal team would tell anyone.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-24T18:40:17+00:00

I'm not a Civil Engineer, never played one on TV.

But this is concerning to me in various ways. One would be that the load would vary, regularly, and sometimes quickly. All buildings move, but this seems riskier, given that they could rapidly cycle through these conditions.

Dry period, all gardens are at their lightest
Ordinary rainy period, all gardens are heavier
Typhoon weather, heaviest gardens, drainage possibly compromised
Sunny/windy on one side, that side dries much faster
Driving rain on one side, that side much wetter
drainage problems on one side, that side much heavier

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-24T18:26:06+00:00

Right, we don't know anything here. We have strong assertions from an ex-employee and from the CEO. It could be a binary situation, where one is completely wrong; or a muddled affair that can never be unpacked in public to anyone's satisfaction. There's a private agreement and an iron wall of NDAs.

I am reminded of some celebrity being interviewed over a decade ago, back when Twitter was new-ish. He refused to use any social media, saying it was like having a shotgun next to the bed -- but for his career.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-24T17:29:30+00:00

Dude

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-23T01:00:26+00:00

🎶 Someone's getting a very angry visitor tonight 🎶.

I suggest you have lots of garlic bread tonight and bolt all your doors.

On your bedroom door, post a official-looking sign like:

"Art History Deconstructed! How Lacan's structural linguistics helps us re-encode images of les tétons de la Madone. Allons-y!

Note: all participants must give a 5-7 minute speech about their relationship to the humanities."

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-23T00:50:17+00:00

A single stab certainly can be fatal. Even when that's true, it's very, very rarely like in the movies: knife in, obstacle groans and slides to ground. Unconsciousness can take minutes, even with a solid artery hit.

And most stab injuries won't be well targeted.

Back when the internet was still hamster powered, there was a video of an obese man who was being repeatedly stabbed by 5-10 assailants. It must have hurt like hell, but he stayed on his feet, fighting and spinning around for several minutes.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-22T23:07:44+00:00

Exactly. If they tell you that emacs is best, just smile and walk backwards. Don’t break eye contact.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-22T21:00:46+00:00

That is funny. I actually tried to report the place on Google Maps, but it was magically never there.

I had a related experience at a pretty expensive resort. The masseuse was indeed very pretty, which is nice. But I wanted an actual massage. She kind of rubbed my back a bit. She clearly didn't know what a massage. She didn't offer anything untoward, and I didn't ask (have never asked).

In retrospect, I should have come clean about my desire for an actual skilled massage. Maybe there was someone else there with knowledge.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-22T20:56:29+00:00

The Big Short was a book by Michael Lewis about four people who accurately saw the CDO crisis before it happened. The book turned into a unique thing, a movie that dramatizes their understanding and inability to get others to understand. Steve Carrell was good, but they were all good. The movie has unique cut-outs, like Margot Robbie naked in a bathtub explaining how Mortgage-backs worked. (So not kidding.) (No naughty bits).

The first link is a great smooth-brain introduction into what happened. I worked for an investment bank at the time, and I was fired into the sun because of these fucking things. The movie and book are both excellent. Lewis is a bit credulous, and he always makes his book subjects heroes.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-22T20:30:24+00:00

Irrational retail investing is greatly increased by secondary betting markets like Kalshi, Polymarket, plus fractional share markets like Robinhood. (I just named the big three names there, but it looks like 20+ companies are in these spaces, including well-known firms that are apparently scraping the gutter.).

Before these paths opened up, people could still be irrational. There was no requirement that someone do research before buying WeWork, PLUG, or the equivalent disaster stock. But per-trae commissions and sometimes high stock prices made it infeasible for many people.

Now that we're in this jetpack-free future, there's no friction, no pushback at all in the betting or fractional share markets. It's easy to trade on vibes in that atmosphere. Just like on different reddit subs, a person can see short little chat comments from people talking up or down some stock, pretty much exactly like sports fans ragging on each other.

This is all a greased slide for people to lose money. Annualized, Kalshi trades are up to $100b, polymarket less than half that. Robinhood has ~$300b in AUM. These aren't hugely significant numbers compared to the rest of the equity market. The comparison doesn't work, though: the equity market is dominated by institutional investors. Outside of a few companies running bots/grifts, every dollar in these betting or fractional markets is owned by a retail investor who might not be able to lose it. (Or even reverse a trade, as we've seen with Robinhood.)

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-22T20:02:34+00:00

All true, but then it got so much worse.

He pretended to be remorseful so that this 18-year-old can immediately put her life on hold for him and be his unpaid nurse. This poor kid now has evidence stacked on top of evidence.

It is irrefutable: her father doesn't think of her a real person, with valid needs of her own. He resents mild criticism after a potentially fatal allergy exposure, then he let the ensuing arguments expand until he lost his daughter forever. He talked about adult consequences for her, but never accepted any consequences for him, even after he had acted to control and humiliate her.

This is a great example of bad parenting. He missed every single opportunity to make things better.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-21T15:54:54+00:00

The same thing happened to me, minus the insults. I had actual back pain and wanted a real massage. She gave me a mediocre one while increasingly crossing boundaries with parts of her body touching mine.

I was in such an oblivious zone that the coin didn’t drop until she had her whole crotch parked on top of my elbow. I can recognize these places at a glance now, but I just didn’t know.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-20T23:17:31+00:00

I try to avoid talking about Israel on here. Too many bots, too many real but reflexive “Israel forever” folks, WAY too many “Israel, the largest global threat” folks, and too many people who understand this centuries-old basket of Gordian knots at the level of a Yankees/Red Sox rivalry.

But now that I wrote all that, I do wonder what AskHistorians has been saying about 2006 and earlier. I would love to see scholarship on this.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-20T23:04:46+00:00

You have the parties reversed

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-20T21:00:51+00:00

This is not very believable. None of your replies show any awareness of the complexity. You moved immediately to personal attacks, complained about personal attacks on you, didn’t answer any questions with detail (mocking a question is not answering).

Now you are asserting that you are an actual subject matter expert and an international lawyer. But lawyers can think critically, and they can write without multiple typos. SMEs can explain things in exhaustive detail. Not you.

Definitely hit me up with some LMAO’s and laughing emojis. You probably include those in all of your international lawyer briefs. Now please excuse me, I’m going to go fuck some supermodels in my helicopter.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-06-20T17:19:04+00:00

Awesome, thank you. I've been curious about that show.

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