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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • You certainly have the option to take your own lunch, and many students do, but the fact is that a lot of American families just can’t afford to. Lunches provided by the school are usually less than $2, and there are federal free or reduced-cost lunch programs for families that can’t afford that.

    For my kids, specifically, their school provides free lunch for every student. Additionally–and this does not seem to be the typical experience–they both absolutely love their school lunches.






  • It occurred to me that I might be wrong about the locally stored database, so I conducted an experiment.

    I put my phone in airplane mode, then went to my record player and played a song with my phone sitting nearby. Within a minute, my phone correctly displayed the currently playing song, despite having no connectivity whatsoever. This proves that there is a local database of songs against which the service can compare what it hears. Obviously the database does not include every song ever written, that would be ridiculous.

    I never claimed that the phone was not listening, it has to listen in some way to recognize music. What I did claim, and have now proven, is that it can identify songs without sending the audio to Google.












  • I listen to a wide variety of music, genres including jazz, metal, rap, classical, rock, dubstep, alternative, soft rock, etc. I find her music to be obnoxious, repetitive, and not at all creative. I don’t think there’s a single other artist that I like less. And it has nothing to do with her politics, that’s the one area I agree with her.