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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Now that is something I’ve never thought about before and also wish I hadn’t read.

    Anyway, I googled it, and hemorrhoids are actually not necessarily open wounds, and if they are, at least the blood is flowing outwards which might hinder the bacteria from getting into the blood stream. The bacteria from the asshole doesn’t survive well outside the intestines, so there’s a low risk of them crawling back up into an open wound.

    However it does happen, and that could cause blood poisoning, which is potentially lethal if untreated. You’d probably want to treat it though because you’d experience severe fever and other clear signs.

    I’ll achieve this knowledge in the “don’t worry about it” folder.





  • The Danish holiday bonus is not much though. The minimum 1% holiday bonus is paid out because the days that you take off as a salaried employee are worth slightly less than the legal minimum holiday. Had you been paid by the hour, you would get the same without the bonus.

    It’s negotiable of course, but personally I’d rather have one of the holiday bonuses from almost any other EU country to be default. For instance Finland gets 50% for resuming work after a holiday and in Belgium they get a full months pay in bonus.

    Depending on your union agreement you might get similar things but not by law.



  • I have never even read those names before, and I think this illustrates the issue.

    Protest songs used to reach world wide top charts because that’s what people bought. This was ruined by commercialization, so that charts now only show what labels want to sell. People who actually choose what music to consume will scatter out into online bubbles that are completely detached from the mainstream and public view.

    This makes it almost impossible to reach as big an audience as done by RATM and others did in previous decades.

    Perhaps young people ought to do protest TikToks instead of protest songs.



  • So, I memorized all the binary digits in the waveform of a Metallica song and wrote it down from memory.

    Unfortunately I’ve got a bad memory so I had to do them one digit at a time, but technically I didn’t copy anything, I only wrote down my own memories, right? Also, my handwriting is worse than my doctor’s so I chose to write it on a computer.

    The funniest thing happened when I accidentally opened this text file in Winamp. It almost sounded like music, except that the drums were played like shit.



  • Not really. Whether or not a piece of music is boring has very little to do with the time signature.

    It’s more like a framework.

    Perhaps it’s also boring that most paintings are done on rectangular canvases, but I don’t think a painting necessarily gets particularly more interesting by being done on an oddly shaped canvas.




  • They tell you the total before you start paying, don’t they?

    They say it’s 10.50

    If you give them a 20, they’ll start giving back 9.50 before you can even attempt to do the exact coin exchange.

    If instead you give the 0.50 first, they can’t start giving change before you’ve presented the rest of the cash.

    That’s how you pay 20.50 in order to get 10 back.

    It’s something you can do for your own sake to avoid having a pocket full of shrapnel. It’s not necessarily a help for the cashier, and they’ll definitely tell you if they need it. So, please don’t hold up the queue just to give exact or optimal change.