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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • Less education funding. Inflation. Schools closing. Low teacher pay. Large class sizes. National funding being tied to standardized testing.

    Whenever school funding is on the ballot in my state, it rarely passes. Kids and teachers do not have the resources they need to be successful and it will continue to get worse until the president makes it a point to improve it. This is far from a new problem though. The government wants our nation to be full of people with below average intellect. I don’t see any other reason not to invest in everyone’s future.






  • Pseudo science is a stretch. First of all our food lacks a lot of vitamins and minerals it had 50 years ago. You can’t tell me a lack of nutrition does t affect your hormones.

    Now lets pretend TRT takes a decade off your life.

    Would you rather go the next 30 years battling depression, fatigue and anxiety or would you rather live an extra 10 years having those symptoms?

    We are assuming those ‘extra’ 10 extra years of life are an extra healthy 10 years and not 10 years where you are battling chronic diseases caused by your inability to stay active which was caused by your depression, anxiety and aging.

    As we age it becomes progressively difficult to maintain staying active, gaining and maintaining muscle. Diabetes, high blood pressure depression.

    Maybe doing TRT and having your bloodwork done routinely like you are supposed to do will minimize the damage from this medicine. Or we could get on antidepressants which have side effects like decreased libido, lower seizure threshold, weight gain etc. I guess in that aspect your quality of life could improve as well because as you’re sitting there doing nothing still, you will be happier. I only mention antidepressants because that was mentioned in the article.



  • I would stick to niche and small subreddits. Here is why.

    1. Reddit has a lot of bots
    2. Lots of real users are part of reddits contributor program which allows people to get paid from Reddit for their content. Theses users posts will get more visibility than the average lurker.
    3. Reddit makes money off collecting data and selling it to advertisers. Reddit doesn’t want quality community content and engagement. That is just what they promote to get people in the door. The more Reddit knows about their users, the more they can sell to advertisers. That is why they killed the third party apps for the most part. They are following the Facebook business model.

    So basically if you’re commenting on a a trending post that has 500+ comments, you’re probably wasting your time by posting into the abyss. You might have bots and people downvoting your content so they can upvote their own content for more visibility.

    Stick to the small subreddits if you’re not trying to make money off Reddit and want a sense of an online community. It’s not worth it to bots and community content creators to waste too much time in those communities.



  • I once owed $1100 for bloodwork a teledoc ordered. I had a wellness exam and they ordered a bunch of bloodwork which I got done at a major well known national lab. My insurance said the claim is out of network and refused to pay on some of the bloodwork orders.

    Although my teledoc was licensed to practice medicine in my home state, my insurance plan stated it is billed for the providers primary state. In that state, my insurance plan is not contracted with the lab that it’s contracted in my state.








  • I’m more tired of algorithms. For example, I like to scroll suggested videos on YouTube. I kept getting the same video suggestions and the same type of videos. Like I would get a ton of channels with Joe Rogan clips. You would have thought I was a mega fan but I rarely listen to Rogan. Anyway, when I got a new phone I was logged out of YouTube and my ‘suggested video’ feed instantly got much better. I have not logged into YouTube since.

    I am also tired of AI though. AI feels like imposter syndrome and is being used by lazy people. For example, I made a website about something I knew nothing about but my website looked like I was ann expert. I used AI write my articles. All I had to do was make sure it sounded good and then post it. A lot of people were doing this now especially if they are trying to make money off affiliated marketing. Anytime you see something like “10 best [fill in the blank]”, that was probably heavily influenced by AI and influenced from other trending articles.