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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • You sprinkle some more cereal on the milk whenever you run out of cereal.

    The whole point is to not have soggy cereal

    Really depends on preference and cereal type

    It’s less of an argument between milk first vs second, but people that like soggy vs crunchy cereal.

    The important thing is to not add too much cereal before you can eat it all. Adding in cereal last just helps make sure you don’t.



  • Thing is you can’t make everyone happy.

    Daylight savings time sole objective is to move 1 hour of sunlight in the morning to the evening.

    I’m not sure how it’s supposed to help farmers unless they want to sleep in and work an extra hour into the evening. I think that it helping farmers is more of a myth.

    So much of DST is misunderstood

    Most people I have heard hate daylight savings time because “the sun sets so early in the winter”

    Yet that’s the outcome of not staying on permanent DST. Winter is standard time.

    Others hate the switch. Once again it’s because we don’t stay permanently on one.

    I’m with you though, I enjoy the extra hour of sunlight in the evening.


  • Let’s look at NY city.

    June 21th longest day, sunrise is at 5:24 am (Set 8:31 pm)

    December 21th longest night, sunrise is at 6:42 am (Set 4:32 pm)

    If you got rid of daylight savings time then the sun would rise at 4:24 am in June and set at 7:31 pm.

    (Most people in NY probably want the extra hour of light at 7:31 pm instead of 4:24 am)

    If you kept permanent daylight savings then the sun would rise at 7:42 am in December and set at 5:32 pm)

    (Most people in NY probably want some light before 8 because it’s going to be dark after dinner anyways)

    So many people are awake before 8 am compared to 5 am

    So many people enjoy the light at 7:30 pm in the summer

    Switching really is the sweet spot for NY

    Location is definitely important too in hating or liking DST

    Ontonagon, Mi sun sets at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)

    Dexter, Me sun sets at 4:10 pm tonight (6:33 am rise)

    Same time zone, both northern cities.

    If we didn’t get off DST Ontonagon wouldn’t see the sunrise until almost 9 am today

    People in Dexter might have preferred to stay on DST getting light between 7:33 am to 5:10 pm today

    The farther west you live in a time zone the less you like DST generally. Farther east, the more you like it.

    Ontonagon is so west it should really be in Central Time zone.

    If that was the case then the sun would set at 4:25 pm tonight (6:58 am rise) (basically Dexter ME times)

    At that point they might want to stay on DST and it would make it exactly what it was today, sunset at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)



  • Steepness has nothing to do with time.

    Say your goal was to climb a 20km mountain

    If it was a steep mountain it would be harder than a flat dune mountain.

    If you could walk at a max speed of 10km an hour both mountains would take 2 hours to climb.

    X-axis: Time Y-axis: Difficulty

    Example Yo-yoing.

    Doesn’t have steep learning curve. You can throw a yo-yo and get it up fairly easy. As you practice the difficulty of things you can do goes up.

    It’s learning curve would look like

    Example wake boarding.

    Does have a steep learning curve. You more than likely will be dragged under water a couple times and probably fall as soon as you get up the first time to be dragged under water again. But once you get the hang of it it becomes second nature.

    It’s learning curve would look like

    Steepness is the difficulty required to move on in time






  • Craps is almost a team game.

    If everyone plays the Pass Line (Shooter, the person throwing the dice has to play it) then everyone wins/loses together.

    Everyone at the table playing the Pass Line is pulling for the shooter to make his point.

    Now imagine if you have one person out of 8 playing the Don’t Pass. The person playing Don’t Pass line is hoping the other 7 players lose so that they can win.

    It’s almost equivalent to everyone at the roulette table playing black. And you walk up and say “I hope it comes red”. Like why don’t you just hope it comes black so you can win when everyone wins?


  • My brother takes the dice and rolls the point. Everyone places their chips. I place my chips. The dealer asks me, “Did you mean to put your chips on the Don’t Pass Line?” “Yes, that’s exactly what I meant to do.” Silence. Then my sister: “You’re an asshole.” My brother rolls again: seven. The Don’t Pass Line wins me a couple bucks.

    This doesn’t make any sense

    1. Once the point is established by the shooter on the come out roll, you cannot play Pass or Don’t Pass lines.

    So after your brother takes the dice and rolls the point. You cannot place your chips on Pass/Don’t Pass. Maybe why dealer was confused?

    1. Don’t Pass Line pays on shooter rolling 2 or 3 on come out roll. You’d lose if he rolled a 7. Pass Line wins if shooter rolls a 7 on come out roll.

    Second roll was a 7?

    You’d have bet Don’t Pass before your brother ever rolled the dice for a second roll 7 to win the Don’t Pass

    Bets after the shooter’s first come out roll are usually Come/Don’t Come bets.

    If you made a Don’t Come bet instead of a Don’t Pass (Dealer was confused from your illegal play and considered it a Don’t Come bet.) You’d still lose if a 7 were rolled second. So that doesn’t make sense.

    If your first bet was after your brother rolled once. The only way you’d win with him rolling a 7 on his second roll would be to play a SEVEN bet. Which would be an even bigger dick move than Don’t Pass because it’s a one turn bet that your brother was going to roll a 7.

    I guess most likely you played the don’t pass before your brother ever rolled