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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Even in fairly sensible states and for egg freezing, they may want you to jump through hoops.

    As part of the process my significant other apparently had to either tell them I didn’t exist, or they’d want to talk to me for permission to freeze her eggs. Even if we were married, they’re her eggs not mine. It’s completely inappropriate to need to talk to me.


  • Of what others have suggested and that I’ve read: the ones most similar to what you’ve finished are:

    • The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
    • The Expanse series by James SA Corey
    • Hyperion (at least the first two books, w/ optional two more) by Dan Simmons

    New recommendations:

    • Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany (content warning)
    • The Baroque Cycle series by Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash and the Diamond Age may both be better starting points for the author, but may fit your other criteria less)
    • The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe

    Other works that stretch your genre boundary but may evoke the right emotion:

    • Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
    • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
    • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
    • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
    • Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
    • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
    • John Dies at the End by David Wong




  • At the same time it’s the map’s job to describe the world. Even for something like nation states where there’s an official name, the map uses the common name. Our maps say France, not French Republic.

    Changing the displayed name for a body of water shared by several nations doesn’t make much sense, especially when the common name has yet to follow.

    At least that’s from the perspective of one of the goals the map ostensibly wants to serve.











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    3 months ago

    Not OP, but maybe it’s better phrased as “white Americans have a limited shared cultural heritage.”

    Waves of immigration make it hard to tell what of that 5 centuries is actually shared. It’s also viewed as tacky to try and lay claim to the bit before your ancestors arrived.

    If your ancestors were Irish and Italian immigrants from around 1850, going off about the Mayflower can be viewed as similar putting on airs



  • Consider a spring loaded drawer divider. Keeping everything from sloshing around can make a surprising amount of space.

    Drawer with dividers

    My drawer in the image used to be a nightmare. Everything used to move around and it would jam when opening sometimes. Adding dividers got it organized enough to leave a third of it free, which is now the rightmost section that’s filled with tea.

    It’s been over a year and I still feel a small sense of joy when I open it sometimes. There’s still messes of junk in the back left and right, but they stay put.