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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Good thing is that the smell does fully go away even if you don’t get to it. My house had a problem with mice in the attic and walls, but there was no patching fix that could reasonably done, since this is an old and pretty drafty house. They can really slip through the smallest cracks, even underground, and there had to be a hundred of cracks like that. Putting up and swapping snap traps was a pretty onerous task that never seemed to fully work.

    The pest control crew that did fix the problem did so by putting a bunch of slow-acting poison bait traps around the property and in the attic. 3 days later some seriously awful smells popped up throughout the house, but they went away after a little over a week. Those mice are part of the building now, but I’ve completely forgotten about them.


  • That’s factually false. Its main mechanism of action is adenosine antagonism, but it does cause a rise of blood adrenaline, as well as a release dopamine and norepinephrine to a handful of systems in the brain.

    It’s true that it doesn’t improve mental acuity, and can leave you in an exhausted-but-anxious state, but saying it doesn’t actually stimulate you or wake you up is incorrect.






  • Fediverse could absolutely do better on just that data, though I do want to note the really effective (or addictive) algorithms for TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, etc. work on a hell of a lot more data than that. Not just what you directly interacted with, but did you even just click on the link? Did you go to the comment section? How long were you in the comment section? What comments did you expand? When you follow a link or look at an image, how long till you go to the next post?

    Like I said, there are ways to do better with what we have, but the “ideal” behavior is secretly fueled by a whole lot of extra data collection that gets distributed everywhere.