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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • We finally blocked Roblox entirely in our house because it was making our kids assholes. All the little “safe” user-created minigames like Steal a Brainrot were having a pretty big effect on their behavior and things that they concerned themselves about. They would get into fights about whether or not one of them had a generator that could net them absurd, meaningless values like $1.7T/s and then take those arguments offline and still argue about whose Steal a Brainrot base was better. Or whatever.

    We watched an interview with the CEO of Roblox stomping on rake after rake after rake. He seemed mostly attuned to the growth of the platform and did not seem like safety was a really any sort of primary concern at all. He talked about things like this (continuuous facial recognition via the devices’s human facing camera) as if that would do anything to curb the behavior of adults abusing the platform. He seemed to be saying that What else would you get but safety with changes like this? I decided that I do not like that guy in particular and I don’t like his product either and my kids can have it back after they have defeated me and can figure out how the pi-hole works.







  • The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows

    The government is corrupt And we’re on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn

    We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death

    The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

    It went like this:

    The buildings toppled in on themselves Mothers clutching babies Picked through the rubble And pulled out their hair

    The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze I said, “Kiss me, you’re beautiful These are truly the last days”

    You grabbed my hand And we fell into it Like a daydream Or a fever

    Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVekJTmtwqM&list=RDXVekJTmtwqM&start_radio=1