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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • No? I didn’t have a bad childhood, and I’m sure there’s lots of memories that were made, but they’re long gone. We grow, learn, and evolve. Memories mold us into who we are now, and while it’s good to have important memories documented for recollection (such as keeping a journal), the majority of life is mundane or repeating tasks so those memories are ‘overwritten’ (so to speak) with more recent and relevant memories.

    It’s generally strong emotional moments that we remember best. Lots of people in the comments talking about remembering their trauma. I vividly remember my spankings, and my brother dragging my arm across a car window edge, and other bad things.

    But I also remember the good times. Going on vacations, spending time with extended family, hobbies I enjoyed as a kid.

    Comparing the amount of memories I have from being a kid to now though, my childhood memories are just a distant thought at this point.


  • Ding ding ding!

    My high school was in the nicer part of town, literally separated by a river from the rest of the city. Back then for second languages our school had Spanish, French, ASL, German, and even Latin! Our school had science teachers that won statewide awards, our football team was very competitive, the marching band (and music program in general) was phenomenal.

    This was just a public school, and I’ve more than come to terms that the experience I had is nowhere near the norm compared to the rest of the country.












  • I used Sync (first for Reddit, then for Lemmy), but the dev’s been AWOL for a lot longer than normal so it’s pretty broken at this point.

    Tried Connect next, and it was alright.

    Currently using Voyager and I’m pretty happy with it. It’s gotten me back to the old Sync customizations I used to have.


  • everything we agree on is an ad would be prohibited

    And that’s part of the issue; this assumes that we’ve somehow come to a consensus on what ‘ads’ are, or which are ‘bad’. I can get behind getting rid of obtrusive ads, such as pop-ups and video interruptions, but I also actually like billboard advertisements (As long as they are in locations that respect what’s around them, are legible from a distance (not wordy, I’m trying to drive!), and don’t have eye-searing lights). When I travel, billboards often bring us to some interesting locations we may not have thought of before.

    Personally, I’d look at making policies restricting “obtrusive advertising”. I don’t mind the advertising, I mind the delivery.