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Cake day: September 24th, 2023

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  • Well, it is pretty to look at. Wonder if the diagram is confusing or if I’m just dumb, because it took me a bit to figure out that circle size corresponded with millimeters. That’s the struggle of knowing 1) you’re not an omniscient genius but also 2) data can be presented in a way that’s confusing to most people, but not being a design expert so you don’t know if you’re just dumb or if it’s a design flaw. And you don’t want to start criticizing stuff when you are not an expert and saying something blatantly wrong, so you just wonder and maybe type out this paragraph online.







  • Probably because whoever made the meme knows it’s used in Europe but not what measuring systems other countries use. I also didn’t know what measuring systems other countries used, but know that usually Europeans might use metric. I didn’t think hard about it. I saw a meme that did not seem to be misleading and seemed unlikely to offend or cause despair and hopelessness, I decided to post it here. Thanks for the information that I didn’t know.

    Also, I wouldn’t mind having US schools teach metric so we can shift to it, but alas I am not a politician and cannot make a unilateral decision for the whole country. While I can bug them to support such a measure, we unfortunately have bigger fish to fry right now. I’m just trying to post levity to help people get through the day, because that matters too.





  • The entire premise of a “zonk” is that the contestant would be disappointed. Goats were a common “zonk,” and it’s assumed most contestants would have no ability to house, and no use for, a domestic goat.

    According to an interview with Monty Hall, several contestants actually decided to keep the animals; although rare, it was allowed since the animals were offered as prizes (and they were a lot more expensive than the consolation cash prize).

    from the explainxkcd link, emphasis mine.








  • One vault keeps my list of games to play, things to read, etc. for later. I have it set up a particular way for quick and easy entry with the Meta Bind plugin, and DataView for easy listing of everything (each piece of media to consume is a separate note with tags according to things like genre, subject matter, etc. and DataView sorts on those). This gets a whole vault to itself because of how every piece of media is a separate note: not much information in one one; when I usually have one note with a lot of stuff in it. This would absolutely clog any other vault. It also gets a whole vault to itself because I have no need for DataView or Meta Bind at the moment in my other vaults. My other vaults are plugin-free.

    I also have a vault for storing notes on my personal creative projects, whether it be a long-abandoned attempt at planning a TTRPG campaign or a video game.

    One for academic notes. I also have a separate math vault that did not end up getting very far, intended to help me review a bunch of math I already learned (and maybe to one day share to help teach others), maybe I’ll pick it up again.

    Finally, I have a sort of catch-all vault for everything else in my life I might want in Obsidian. This is my most frequently used. It’s where my recipes live, where information about myself I should probably know about myself but often forget lives (like the exact day I moved into a different house), where I keep track of knitting patterns and my progress on them…

    This is not how you are “supposed” to do it, I always see advice to keep everything in one vault, but this is what works for me.

    Thanks for posting this question!











  • Eh, there were some nice things on Reddit. We don’t have to be a clone but we don’t have to resist everything that looks like them. I’m explicitly here because I wanted a forum-like social media that wasn’t Reddit; I wanted a Reddit replacement. I would like to leave certain artifacts of Reddit behind, but I do like actual Reddiquette (that admittedly did not get followed in practice, it does not here either) of upvoting good contributions to a conversation (including opposing opinions) and reserving downvotes for people who come in with hostility, spam/off-topic posts, etc. I liked communities there where I could talk about things I was interested in.