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Cake day: April 23rd, 2026

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  • I originally got it to rescue my Pokemon before the battery dies

    This is probably the edible talking but… I’m enjoying this through the lens of the sci-fi trope of humanity trying to cheat death by digitizing the soul.

    We haven’t figured out the technology for ourselves yet, but here we have a person at their workbench, driven by empathy for a digital pet, going apeshit with a soldering iron to try and transfer their little friend’s ghost before its shell fails. That’s cyberpunk as fuck.


  • I haven’t given Amazon money in a decade or more.

    Options:

    1. Local stores if you have any that haven’t been strangled by chains yet.
    2. The manufacturer of whatever product you’re buying.
    3. A non-Amazon retailer listed in the “where to buy” section of the manufacturer’s site.
    4. In those rare cases where a manufacturer ONLY sells through Amazon, just buy from one of their competitors unless the product literally turns lead into gold.

    I’m seeing a lot of “but I can get it the next day” in this thread. If my options are to wait a week for a product or to put money in the pocket of a billionaire who is actively contributing to the destruction of the free press, democracy, and the QoL of the working class, like… I’ll find something to do for a week?