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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • “Viewers purchase each TikTok gift — animated emojis of various creatures and symbols — on the platform’s store. A “rose” costs just one cent. But high rollers can splurge $500 on a “TikTok universe” gift, which pops out a screen-encompassing spaceship that circles a sparkling globe while a short jingle about “uniqueness” and “teamwork” plays in the background.”

    This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of. Well, as it has been said, a fool and their money are soon parted.


  • I went to an Academy store a couple of years ago and on a whim walked up to the watch counter and asked if they had any mechanical watches. The girl behind the counter just tilted her head. So I clarified, a mechanical watch, you know, one you wind up. And she just shook her head again. I then explained to her that it was a watch that you wind up and doesn’t need batteries. She then looked shocked and exclaimed “Wow, that’s so cool. Someone should invent that…” I just stood there in a similar amount of amazement. I then told her that they did, hundreds of years ago. She then said, no we don’t have anything like that. Which I figured was the case from the start.


  • If you go by the article, the answer is yes.

    "At his office last month, Chief Beltran picked a Motorola MX-350 up off his desk. The clunky hand-held radio, roughly the size of a Chihuahua, was the same model he used in the 1980s when he joined the force.

    The chief, a 38-year department veteran and longtime technology buff, knows every facet of the vast communications network and how it functions: A call from one of the 42,000 hand-held radios, or one of the 3,400 in boats, helicopters, patrol cars and other vehicles, is picked up by antennas throughout New York, then transmitted to a dispatcher, all in nanoseconds.

    But the network was overdue for an upgrade, Chief Beltran said. The decades-old analog system used outdated copper wire circuitry that is susceptible to harsh weather and takes longer to repair."