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Cake day: July 23rd, 2025

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  • Dont know if this is similar or relevant but I was using an online free yt-dlp website and the schtick is you just paste the link for a video or playlist and it formats everything and runs yt-dlp on their server and people can download the files among all the other files of other people doing the same thing or god knows what but it was sort of fascinating.

    Might try it out again just to people/file watch. I find these kind of community/public computer stuff absolutely fascinating


  • You cant really rely on it but it makes sense to be selective for apps that make an effort to No(t) Data Collected where its possible.

    A more pragmatic strategy is to disable cellular data and see if it can run without internet or wifi. Apps that cant that have no actual reason it cant be done locally are out immediately but you have to buy or download it to test first i suppose.

    I guess I mean to say no data collected is a good sign but I still verify and even any of this is no herge against a company who’s business is selling out your interests when they and the unaware could have almost certainly made a better choice. Vote with your money and your feet or thumbs




















  • Learn to say no when something or someone doesn’t jive with you. Be able to say no even if someone threatens the friendship or relationship or whatever because if they talk like that, they are manipulating you and its a strong indicator they have more power in the relatiinship which they are abusing to take advantage of you.

    Speak up, make some noise. The squeaky wheel is always the one that gets the grease or at least whatever grease there is to be gotten.





    1. What you see/heard (focus on facts, not opinions or judgements)
    2. WHAT you felt (how your body and mind reacted in response)
    3. Thing you need/need to meet (basic needs but also core values like safety, peace, autonomy, authenticity, etc)
    4. What you would like them to do (what is something you can request they do or refrain from doing pursuant to helping you address that need)

    ✅Second NVC. Just buy an app that helps structure your script that it goes thru the procees fill in the blanks style kind of and it will give you a decent starting point if you like something a bit more interactive than the basic diagram above

    Maybe listen to a session or some NVC clips in action on Youtube to get a feel for it

    Invite them to use NVC (even let them use your app when its their turn) on something they need that maybe they feel like you’re not 100% on for them.

    If the friendship any relationship has the legs, they will be into it, if not they will likey feel like you’re not worth the trouble for them. Either way, its good because it seperates the wheat from the chaff in terms of who your actualy genuine relationships are with.

    Plan it out first, then text them step by step if they are open to engaging. I really like texting for these things because it gives everyone space to think and react or slow themselvesdown and be more conscious of how they are feeling and what their options are for responding and its easier to be grace-giving because its not face to face

    Keep in mind, nobody inherentlt has the obligation to tolerate anybody else who insists on stepping on their toes in any way, especially when its knowing and deliberate and repetitive. People should generally be given the benefit of the doubt at least once where they are given a chance to correct things before you start cutting them loose but you’re not obligated to compromise your safety so someone else can make you a boundaries testing punching bag or get their much needed primer in developing their greater emotional maturity.

    If something bothers you, it will never get better if you dont make it known to them that you need something different and that you will leave it to them with whatever request you formulate in response that resolves whatever the issue is



  • ✅Second NVC. Just buy an app that helps structure your script that it goes thru the procees fill in the blanks style kind of and it will give you a decent starting point if you like something a bit more interactive than the basic diagram above

    Maybe listen to a session or some NVC clips in action on Youtube to get a feel for it

    Invite them to use NVC (even let them use your app when its their turn) on something they need that maybe they feel like you’re not 100% on for them.

    If the friendship has the legs, they will be into it, if not they will likey feel like you’re not worth the trouble for them. Either way, its good because it seperates the wheat from the chaff in terms of who your actualy genuine relationships are with.

    Plan it out first, then text them step by step if they are open to engaging. I really like texting for these things because it gives everyone space to think and react or slow themselvesdown and be more conscious of how they are feeling and what their options are for responding and its easier to be grace-giving because its not face to face




  • Have a relative who has another language as their mother tongue but has perfect of my native language so we code switch a lot, I’m not fluent but I enjoy throwing in bits of what I know and they seem to appreciate it and encourage it

    Weirdly, I kind of like parts of their language so I have lots of fun with wordplay and playing with the spelling and such and mashing them together for comedic effect like Sacha Baron Cohen does in Bruno


  • Just ignore them or dont engage to begin with. Nothing but cold hard reality and impersonal unresponsive systems/actors can teach them otherwise cuz their minds and hearts are not open. They only care and understand that which directly affects them at the exact moment it becomes real to and for them and they cannot escape having to face concrete, material and often lifestyle destroying 'quences. Theres just no other way, they are like the kind of dug in alcoholic who has to hit rock bottom in order for them to fathom what can be otherwise safely and easily perceived from the mountain top upon which they previously resided

    They only have power if you grant them it by even engaging, and secondarily when you play by their rules the moment they are allowed to move goalposts or respond by posing a new avenue rather than answering a direct question you should reciprocally get an answer to and to your satisfaction it has been asked and answered. If they get away with anything, they will continue to do what works for them until they are forcefully stopped and sufficiently deterred such that they are holding their dick in their hand and it starts cutting into their money, time, satisfaction, or feeling of well-being