Douglas Fraker

@nesdoug.bsky.social

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The person who owned my phone number before me put that number on all her house paperwork years ago, and that house is being foreclosed on, will be up for auction in a week. And the reason I know this is because I have received like 1000 text messages and phone calls in the past few weeks 🙄

I recently started playing Cave Story. This is a good game. Simple 2d platformer. Apparently it originally came out for the 3DS many years ago, but I never noticed it until this week.

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I saw a vehicle exactly like this parked at a school event. I can't think of one benefit of this vehicle. Pain to park. Poor visibility. Lifted.. doesn't improve the ground clearance. You have to climb in and out, which is a pain, and loading it would require lifting things shoulder high. 👎

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Did you know that statistically, with number sets you find in real life, 30% of numbers will start with a 1. Benford's Law. You can determine if number sets are real or fake by what percent of the numbers start with 1 (or 2, or 3, the next most common numbers) Numbers should rarely start 7,8,9

One thing that bothers me in movies is when you see them practice one thing all movie and then they switch it up at the end. In School of Rock, at the battle of the bands they switch songs at the last minute. In The Waterboy, he's writing new football plays 5 seconds before they do it...

We have already spent more money in Iran than it would have cost to pay for 1 year of college for every college student. 2 weeks of war. in 2 months we will have spent enough to pay for 4 years college for everyone.

Anyone else have the feeling that the people in charge have absolutely no idea what they are doing, have no plans or goals, they just randomly do stupid things based on vibes... and we're all doomed and the best we can hope for is societal collapse. Or is it just me?

So... gasoline prices just surged 20% in a week. I don't know where they get these numbers though because the national average is closer to 3.11, but it's a nice chart. And everything just got even more expensive. And were going to be at war with Spain by the end of the week. Idiots in charge.

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People should use the word "erstwhile" more often. It means something that was previously true but not anymore. At my erstwhile job I delivered pizzas. We are about to pass my erstwhile apartment.

15% additional tariffs? On everything from everywhere? Guaranteed to put us in a recession. A whole lot of businesses are going to go bankrupt this year. He's so stupid. He's so unbelievably stupid.

I tried to solve an extra hard Sudoku yesterday, spent like an hour on it, page filled with notes, got like 90% done only to find out I made a mistake somewhere and half of the numbers are wrong. That was NOT fun. Not recommended.