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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t even know how fast I can type on a phone.

    Even with word completion I find myself hesitating between the choice of word or typing it out.

    I know it’s not near as fast as on a physical keyboard where is used to be around 90-120 wpm if I remember correctly. (Been a while since I had to do that at an employment agency)

    Anyway, it’d be fun to see a thumbs only tiktok/Snapchat typer vs a mechanical typewriter type off.

    And, tbf, most people are far from tech savvy.

    Most are consumers. Some are really good consumers. Some are power users. Some know how to do things.

    Very few actually understand it.

    But, there was a time where there was indeed a necessity if you used the tech, you had to understand it.






  • Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.

    ~ George Orwell (Not from a book, this is his actual experience after fighting alongside the Spanish against fasciscm.)






  • narcissism /när′sĭ-sĭz″əm/ noun

    1. Excessive preoccupation with or admiration of oneself. synonym: conceit. Similar: conceit

    2. A personality disorder characterized by self-preoccupation, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.

    They said ‘his narcissism’ They made no diagnostic qualification.

    Ie. Displaying narcissism and being a narcissist and having a narcissistic personality disorder are all different things with different definitions which can be applied in different ways.