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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • Let’s not bury the lead here: the joke in question was making a birthday wish while blowing out candles saying “don’t miss next time”. Joke or not, that is publicly encouraging the assassination of a former president.

    Like, there’s a big difference between “I heard he shit his pants when the bullets started flying” and “I hope it happens again and succeeds this time”.

    Fuck Trump. Fuck everything about him. But you gotta know that shit isn’t acceptable when standing next to the guy who played Bowser for Nintendo




  • I’ve seen a lot of stupid comments about this outage but this by far the dumbest.

    Software development is not a zero-sum game. The people who work on building detection logic aren’t the same people who build the release management cycle or test deployments.

    There is a lot to shit on CrowdStrike for in this debacle. “If they hadn’t been working on AI they could have avoided this” isn’t part of it.

    Source: Am infosec. Company uses CrowdStrike. Was impacted today. Follow this stuff very closely.



  • The first thing to do is try to communicate what you think she’s dealing with. You can start with a simple “I want to tell you what I think is happening, and for you to correct me where I’m wrong, ok?” It should be a specific conversation where you sit down and talk just about this. Tell her you want her to feel like she has independence. Tell her you understand that the last five years have been suffocating and you want to be her ally. Tell her you love her and want to support her and want her to have money to spend on herself, and to feel the joy of a big inheritance.

    And tell her that when she hides things, when she isn’t open, it makes you feel like she views you as the enemy, the opposition, the “other team”.

    Partnerships aren’t about two people facing each other and meeting in the middle. They’re about two people standing side by side, facing the world. If you can convey your belief in that, and that you have no intention of taking from her to “make up for what you’ve given” or anything in that realm, you’ll be in a much better spot to talk about what’s going on and how to address it

    Be prepared to make some concessions btw. If, for example, she wants to keep a nest-egg so that she feels like she has something to fall back on, you’ll probably need to be okay with that. Don’t view it as a commentary about how she views you. It’s almost certainly not about you, but about the difficulty adjusting to her new reality and the stress of having a whole lot of her self-determination and agency stripped away in the past 5 years

    You can definitely manage this. I get the feeling this all comes down to her feeling understandably dissatisfied about parts of her life when she compares them to before your child was born. That’s very normal. Talking through it, restating her concerns so she knows you understand, and tackling solutions together is the key


  • First and foremost, it’s not unreasonable to expect transparency in this situation. Finances are difficult to manage at the best of times. Bringing uncertainty and distrust into the mix is a recipe for disaster.

    That being said, consider that the reason for her behavior may not be entirely malicious or deceptive.

    If I may ask, how independent was your SO prior to your child being born? Did she work? Did she have hobbies she paid for? Did she have expendable income?

    For the last five years she has likely had the feeling that she had no agency over her own financial situation. That can be incredibly uncomfortable and even anxiety inducing for many people. She has been relying entirely on your generosity, that’s true, but remember that also means she’s been beholden to that generosity, and your decisions in the workplace as well.

    It may be that her desire to keep the inheritance quiet is for her own mental health, whether she realizes it or not. It can be very stressful for stay at home spouses to spend money on themselves and feel good about it when it’s always in the back of their mind that they didn’t earn it, that using it frivolously is wasting someone else’s hard work.

    None of this is to say that it’s okay for her to be secretive. It’s not. She needs to be transparent, as I said at the start.

    But perhaps this can you help you approach the issue with grace and understanding so that it’s not a “me vs you” discussion and instead it’s an “us vs the problem” discussion.






  • As far as I’m aware, unless you’re already B12 deficient, the B12 in 5hr Energy doesn’t do much of anything because it already hangs around in your blood stream for a long, long time. Half life on B12 in the body is something like 6 days and excess is even stored in the liver instead of excreted.

    Can’t speak to the other ingredients but I’d guess it’s all the same: either it’s already available in abundance if you’re eating a decent diet, or the half life is close to that of caffeine




  • Not even. I can’t speak for others but the effects of 5hr Energy pretty much disappear after those 5 hours are up. Half the caffeine dose isn’t enough to do much of anything, at least for me. So it’s essentially a waste. I’m sure it depends on things like BMI but to get 5hrs of half-assed energy you’d need to consume 3/4ths of a dose, which would leave you with roughly half the experience of a 5hr Energy (that is, half the difference between the caffeine in your system immediately after drinking one dose and 5hrs after drinking one)


  • Caffeine has a half-life in the human body of approximately 4-6 hours. So this means that the “5 hours” in 5hr Energy is just the amount of time it takes for your body to process half the caffeine away.

    Therefore drinking half of a 5hr Energy would be 0 hours of the advertised level of energy. At best it would be like drinking a 5hr Energy and then immediately fast-forwarding 5 hours