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Today is my second cake day on lemmy!

There are exciting things on the horizon the rapid innovation of piefed, the addition of lemvotes, the amazing tesseract, the useful lemmy-federate, the comfort of voyager... lemmy has lots of promise.

Over these two years I've found some recurring characters here that I enjoy seeing, kinda a small town vibe - I like that.

This is a great place to be!

What do you like about lemmy?

• Manga is usually better than TV series, and TV series are usually better than movies
• Too many internal struggles that drag on and on
• Frequent flashbacks. Things that happened in the same episode they would have to remind you with flashbacks

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Could be any piece of trivia, scientific or historical fact, etc.

So back in highschool, the grade for 12th grade was based 100% on the mid and final exams. Homework didn't matter, quizzes didn't matter, projects didn't matter, participation in class didn't matter as far as grades go. You could of course still do these things and most people did care about them to practice but in the end it was all about the exam.

So I used to always take quizzes seriously as a chance to practice. I would note down my mistakes on my notebook IN ALL CAPS with red ink and a spiky border. Just so I don't make the same mistake again in the exam.

One day I made a mistake in a biology quiz because I confused heart pulse and blood pressure. That day I had cut myself and was bleeding. After writing the usual warning I looked at my hand and thought the blood matched the red ink really well...so I smeared my blood under the red ink warning.

After a few days the blood smear turned chocolate brown and no longer matched the warning :(

What was your latest bad idea?

I drink a cold brew this morning, because it was sitting on my desk from yesterday... Cold brew concentrate. Then after finishing my drink I went to the sauna.... This was not a good decision.

The sauna exercises the cardiovascular system

Coffee stimulates the cardiovascular system (in a different way)

I did not feel good! I only lasted half my normal time. I wont be mixing coffee and extreme heat again.

So character, characteristic and why.

So I found a little line of ants a few days ago. I didn't know they went this far off the ground, but I found a little cluster of them mobbing a forgotten piece of breakfast cereal that was under the couch, so maybe it was my fault and they were highly motivated by whatever else is under there.

Anyway, I don't want ants. I tried a couple of different things. I don't want to poison them or anything like that, I just don't want them in my house. Eventually, what I arrived at that seemed like it worked was this:

• Smush a bunch of the ants. It doesn't actually take that many, I think I did 10-15.
• Leave the corpses in place. They won't really react all that much to them, they'll just keep doing their thing and periodically getting smushed. And then, at some point, they seem like they specifically switch over as a team, and start gathering up the corpses and taking them away.
• Ever since I did that (and specifically since I let them gather up the corpses and let them take them), I haven't seen any ants.

I know that ants have a specific way they operate by laying down scent trails: They wander around at random, laying down a trail of "this is the way back to the nest", and if they find a bunch of food they will return along the same trail laying down a "this way to the food" trail. So it kind of makes sense that they would also have a function to lay down a new trail "this is we found all those bodies so let's not go there anymore." I don't know that that is what's happening but that's what it seems like.

Anyway, ever since the described operation, I haven't seen any ants. I share this in case my logic is sound and it is a good solution and one that is useful for you.

I've been driving the first car I ever bought for almost 15 years now. I love love love that car, but it's time for an upgrade, so yippee!

Before it gets asked and I forget to reply, Mazda 2 -> hybrid Honda Civic hatchback

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Getting old I guess. I can vaguely recall her face, though barely. I didn't think I'd ever forget such a thing. Not suffering from acute memory issues afaik. Just father time gradually erasing the paths travelled in the sands of time.

Where else are you a lot?

I have been particularly miserable lately, just quit using nicotine altogether, and also been moving away from subscriptions. I need distractions that aren't gum and Altoids. I've been into these songs lately: Whatever You Want - Sports, Zen Automaton - Pond, Bicep - TR/ST, People in the Streets - MGMT, and We Control - Hyper.