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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • If the 300m people lived in the same area and you got a true random sample.

    Sunsets at 9:09 today in Michigan

    Sunsets at 8:04 today in California

    Sunsets at 8:34 today in North Carolina

    Sunsets at 7:57 today in Alabama

    Sunsets at 7:38 today in Arizona (They are on standard time)

    Sunsets at 7:13 today in Hawaii

    Sunsets at 11:36 today in Alaska

    Someone in Arizona might want the sun to set at 7:38. It’s blazing hot all day.

    Someone in Michigan might be fine with sunsetting at 8:08 with standard time.

    Someone in Alabama might not want the sun to set at 6:57.

    Someone in Hawaii probably doesn’t want the sun to set at 6:13.

    Even if you split up the 1000 people to equally represent all states, that’s only 20 people per state.










  • Yeah, they can weigh up to 2000lbs with a king-size bed. A king-size bed is 6,080 sq in.

    A fridge can weigh 300lb being 36"×30". 1,152 sq in.

    Fridge is .26 pounds per sq inch. A water bed is .33 pounds per sq inch.

    So while heavy the weight is distributed basically like a fridge. This is assuming an empty fridge.

    As for durability, a quality waterbed mattress is thick. You aren’t going to pop it or cut it without deliberately trying to.

    Even if you took a knife and stabbed it from the top, it’s not going to leak until you put weight on it.


  • That’s a misconception for water beds.

    High-quality water beds have stabilizer pads in the mattress

    The idea of the old crappy 70’s water bed where they slosh around is a poor idea.

    You aren’t laying on a ziploc bag barely filled with any water.

    It’s more like a ziploc bag filled with molasses. If I pushed a corner down it would slowly bring up everywhere else. If I stopped pushing a corner it everything would slowly go back down.

    Say I have a massive gut and sleeping on my right side. I’m displacing X amount of water. If I was to turn to my left side I am still displacing the same amount of water. Just the empty space that use to hold my gut would be filled with the water from the other side where my gut is now. Someone on other side of bed wouldn’t even feel it because the water underneath them doesn’t change.


  • This is why water beds are amazing

    Winter you put memory foam to keep you from the cold water, in summer you sleep on the cold water.

    Only downsides to a water bed are: 1. Heavy 2. You have to add chemicals to your mattress as regular maintenance 3. It can’t really be extra firm (but a lot more firm than people think)

    The water will steal every bit of heat from your body, but you’ll stay warm with a blanket


  • Not everyone wants to binge a show from start to finish

    For example, I really enjoyed the episodes of the office that I have watched. It was many years ago and it was only random episodes I caught while airing on TV.

    Went to Netflix to watch at started on episode 1. From what I hear season 1 isn’t the greatest. I got through a couple episodes and then thought to myself, this is going to take so many nights of watching to watch them all in order. Never watched another again.

    Now if I could turn on the television and say S6EP7 was playing I’d probably enjoy watching it. Might even watch the next episode too.

    With classic TV you also get the feeling that you’re watching the show with others.

    Channel 1 is having a Harry Potter bingeathon. I catch it on episode 3 and continue to watch it. I’ve seen them all multiple times so I don’t really care where I start. But it’s nice knowing others are having a HP bingeathon with me on a Saturday afternoon. If I was sitting there with my plex server, I could play any HP. But I’m never going to put it on and if I did it would just be me watching the show.