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Cake day: September 8th, 2023

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  • It’s a couple factors where I live:

    1. if you aren’t used to walking places because you live in a car dependent city and thus drive everywhere, walking feels bad, so people try to minimize it.

    2. parking lots usually lack shade so the asphalt bakes under the hot sun, making the walk feels extra bad after the nice cool car AC.

    3. parking lots and surrounding areas here typically have the bare minimum pedestrian accommodations, so walking is extra unpleasant.

    3b) gotta watch out for cars that might hit you, or are belching out smelly exhaust, or radiating heat when you’re already sweating. Tolerable at best, and generally not at its best.

    Basically, parking lots just suck to be in, so getting the least-sucky spot feels like a celebratory achievement.






  • As someone who struggled to understand what the fediverse even was, the email analogy was what made it finally click for me.

    For me, it was pretty clear that the analogy was only about how different servers could talk to each other, and that the underlying technology wasn’t equivalent. I never even considered that people might use the analogy that way until this article.