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Cake day: January 29th, 2025

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  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662

    "Symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and how severe they are can vary. People with the disorder can:

    • Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration.
    • Feel that they deserve privileges and special treatment.
    • Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements.
    • Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are.
    • Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate.
    • Believe they are superior to others and can only spend time with or be understood by equally special people.
    • Be critical of and look down on people they feel are not important.
    • Expect special favors and expect other people to do what they want without questioning them.
    • Take advantage of others to get what they want.
    • Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others.
    • Be envious of others and believe others envy them.
    • Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.
    • Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office.
    • At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they view as criticism. They can:
    • Become impatient or angry when they don’t receive special recognition or treatment.
    • Have major problems interacting with others and easily feel slighted.
    • React with rage or contempt and try to belittle other people to make themselves appear superior.
    • Have difficulty managing their emotions and behavior.
    • Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change.
    • Withdraw from or avoid situations in which they might fail.
    • Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection.
    • Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, humiliation and fear of being exposed as a failure."

    I wish I’d never even heard the name ‘Trump’ but I feel like I know him well enough now that ‘all of the above’ feels accurate.




  • My local public golf course was closed and sold to developers a few years back.

    Promises were made to the community of keeping all the trees and lots of green space, as there was vicious community opposition.

    The developers have of course instead done what you suggest, and every house is crammed in next to each other just like every other new suburb. Its still in progress but it looks like once they’re done you wouldn’t even know it used to be a golf course.

    This meme is so stupid because it doesn’t present an even remotely possible outcome. A far better option is to keep the public golf courses for people to spend time outdoors and to provide homes for wildlife - and then remove regulations limiting building heights to encourage multi-storey development.

    Build up, not out - because once green space becomes houses it never changes back.




  • Hi, you took the time to respond i feel i owe you the courtesy of a reply.

    Reading your website initially I could see a lot of pro gas-vehicle articles and negative EV articles, I didnt really focus on brand - not a fan of Tesla myself, and obviously the CT is a piece of crap. I’ll take you at your word that you dont hate EVs but I think if you got a few people to review your site they may also walk away from a quick look through it as ‘oh this is an anti-EV site’; lots of loaded language that’s positive to gas cars and lots of Tesla bashing. People are not going to read every article and notice that there are a few EVs that you’re very fond of before deciding if your page contains useful objective info or if it’s a just another biased source.

    Regarding your About page (I’m on mobile), if I click the Menu button I get a drop-down that shows an ‘About us’ with a little down-arrow on it -> if I click ‘About us’ a menu drops down showing: drop us a line / best of / search / subscribe.

    I checked each of those options and couldn’t find any info about the organization, or you the writer. Now you say you have an ‘about page’ so I go back today and I find if I click on the ‘about us’ drop down menu a second time, it opens a new page. Friend, congrats, you have made a secret About Us page. I have never seen this kind of design in a very long time browsing the internet.

    Anyway, now that I’m here there’s no credentials or references (some mention of being published on other websites - but no links to those articles), beyond saying you have driven a few hunded thousand miles - and your name is still clearly a pseodonym. Journalists generally build faith in their audience by using their real name, it’s a red flag is all.

    I hope that clarifies my statements, they were not arbitrary or intended to be malicious or unfair. Even negative feedback can be constructive and that’s the spirit of this message.






  • Simple question but can be a complex answer. Basically it depends where your phone gets DNS from: if it’s using the ISP DNS (or some other public DNS server) it will resolve the public internet IP of your server and the data will route out to the ISP WAN before being routed back in.

    On the other hand you can configure a split DNS system, so say you are using your modem/gateway as your DNS server and it forwards DNS queries up to your ISP (or other) DNS server - a common setup, 1. you can add in a static host entry for your local server. Eg ‘yourservice.yourserverdomain.com = 192.168.1.20 (your server’s LAN IP)’

    Now when your phone is on the WiFi and it looks up your server’s address it gets the local IP and routes locally, which will be faster.

    If you need more info, search for terms like ‘reverse proxy split DNS best practice’.







  • You can drink a zero sugar saccharine drink every day for the rest of your life and experience no problems from it whatsoever. It’s the most tested artificial sweetener in history and has been used commercially since the 1890s.

    People switching to the low and zero sugar products is a good thing. It is much healthier than people drinking sugary beverages - which is the alternative that that they replace. They do not replace water.

    Switching from smoking to vaping is an improvement, but not a fair comparison as vaping has been shown to have significant negative health impacts.