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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Tech investors and podcasters David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya are hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump at a San Francisco mansion.

    These guys are mad that Bidens administration hasn’t been as friendly to mega corps, venture capital and crypto. Chamath specifically has had some SPACs get questioning from the SEC bc he wasn’t being honest about the companies. If I remember correctly during the GameStop short squeeze, Palihapitiya repeatedly attacked Robinhood and its founders for being unethical by selling payment for order flow to HFT firms like Citadel Securities and pushed his fans to switch over to SoFi, which was merging with his SPAC. yet failed to mention that SoFi employs the same practice of selling payment for order flow to HFT firms (including to Citadel Securities) and owns a 16% stake in Apex Clearing Corp, a clearing house involved in the controversy




  • Other things that irritated me when I recently switched from android to iOS:

    The keyboard doesn’t have the numbers along the top. Didn’t realize how much I used digits when typing stuff out so switching back and forth is annoying.

    When typing long text messages I find it impossible to just click higher or scroll up to reread what I typed

    Speaking of messaging the fact I can only do emoji reactions with such a limited range is really amazing especially in 2023-2024

    The calculator doesn’t show you what you typed in….maybe I’m the idiot but I can’t figure it out

    No ability to do Picture in Picture especially with FaceTime, so everytime I leave the app to look at another window it always blacks the video out

    Printing things from my phone is so difficult now

    Apple Pay for some reason only works when I double click the side button before placing the phone near the reader rather than scan and then double click

    Speaking of wallet I can’t transfer in a local public transit commuter card from android….i need a physical card or number to scan. There is no option to manually enter that I can see

    The action button why can I only do 1 action and not multiple with a click and then a hold option?

    Speaking of action button I have mine set to silent bc if I keep clicking the volume down button it doesn’t automatically put the ringer on vibrate and then silent

    Which leads me to why in gods name can I not turn off send noises from any app? I don’t need to hear the swoosh sound every time.

    The Notification Center in general bothers me

    Also I really miss the back button and menu buttons on the bottom.

    I’m sure there’s more I forgot about but those are little things that have bugged me.





  • Nah it’s always good to see what other people may come up with. I’ve seen things like recommendations to remove the kickoff all together and start on the 20 and if you want the ball back you need to complete like a 4th & 20 scenario and if you fail the team gets it back on their 40.

    Things are always evolving so you’ll always get those staunch supporters of never wanting to change anything, but eventually theyll get used to the change.


  • Honestly the NFL should should adopt the xfl kickoff rule:

    NFL rule: Kicking team lines up at their own 35-yard line, with eight members of the return team within 15 yards. No double-team blocks allowed. Touchbacks are spotted at the 25-yard line.

    XFL rule: The kicker lines up at his 30-yard line, with the other 10 members of the kickoff team lining up at the opponent’s 35 – 5 yards away from the returning team. Only the kicker and one returner can move until the ball is fielded. Touchbacks are spotted at the 35-yard line.