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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • 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.




  • Why??? I will tell you my non expert opinion.

    Reddit makes money by selling data to advertisement companies. Users that aren’t logged in are probably hard to track. They probably have a bunch of untargeted data they can’t sell for much.

    Reddit does not actually care about the end users experience. They want you to use their site enough to provide them with sellable data. It’s like Facebook. Facebook could show you your friends posts in chronological order everyday but instead they throw in all this spam on your feed to keep you on the app. They can see what you’re interested in. If all you do is ‘like’ your friends baby pictures then that data would be hard to sell.


  • This is just for show and will end up going nowhere. If you think this has even a remote chance at changing the minimum wage then I have a bridge to sell you.

    We live in a time where democrats do nothing but act appalled, corporations control politics, corporations keep getting bigger, consumer prices increase year after year, healthcare premiums constantly cost more and employee benefits keep getting more expensive every year. What gives you the idea corporations are going to let politicians triple minimum wage? If that happens it will have a ripple effect where higher paying job positions will want a raise because why should someone making an entry level wage be paid the same as a job position with a lot more responsibility?


  • There is a filter in the bottom of the dishwasher. Its purpose is to collect large particles of food or whatever is being washed so it doesn’t clog your drain.

    If you’re constantly putting really dirty dishes in your dishwasher you should find that filter, twist it out and rinse it off. It’s probably full of nastiness. That nastiness is part of your routine dishwasher cycle until you empty the filter. It might be the reason all your glass is cloudy instead of clear and looking new.

    To answer the original question though, I wash the dishes and use the dishwasher as a santizer to clean what I’ve missed.