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Cake day: August 26th, 2024

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  • I realize my body is just gross and repulsive

    Why do you “realize” this as if this is a cemented fact that no one can dispute? Your appearance is unique and while you may not have met someone who has liked it yet (more likely, someone was open enough to admit it to you), there is inevitably someone out there who will. Everyone has different preferences and tastes.

    I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve found the person called “hottest person of the year” flat out unattractive to my personal tastes. Meanwhile, as a straight guy, I have had crushes on that girl at school that no one thought much of, because I thought she genuinely was cute and because she is a nice, pleasant person to be around. Most of the time I was too scared to speak up and admit how I felt about her because I didn’t know what she thought of me.

    While you may not have had anyone admit it to you, just like how you have walked by someone and thought they were attractive but didn’t say anything or how you’ve held a crush on someone but never said anything to them, do you not think the same has been done to you as well? Do you not realize that it is statistically impossible that this has never happened to you?

    Regardless, your worth as a human being should not come from a place of how others view you and think of you. Your value should come from what you think of yourself and meaningful things like how you treat others.

    I’m willing to bet that you are a caring person and you feel empathy for others. Many people who have these thoughts that you do are these types of people. They care and love others, even more than they do themselves. And I think it’s in part because of this feeling they have for themselves, not wishing anyone else to feel the way they do deep down inside.

    That is what makes you a beautiful person, through and through. The physical appearances will fade with time but your personality is what resonates most with people. The people from your past who think of you to this day remember you for who you were as a person, not because of how you looked on the outside.















  • It’s not quite so simple as using an adblocker on YouTube.

    You could find a service that provides this. I remember one being offered by this guy a few years ago until he got caught. He had a YouTube channel where he showed off his profits from doing this and that led to the cops looking into him and then arresting him. His whole business was just sharing his cable access with anyone for a subscription. Basically repackaging his cable access to multiple people.

    You could download the old fashioned way with torrents or automate it using Plex/Jellyfin and other services like Sonarr. But the challenge is that you have to download everything you want to watch whereas YouTube TV and cable allow you to channel surf to see what’s currently being aired since it’s not just streaming on demand titles. There’s also the issue of having to wait for someone else to upload that episode to you and it coming after the episode has aired (fans of shows like Game of Thrones and the like do not want to possibly have tonight’s episode spoiled by friends/family or the internet so they just fork over the money to watch the episode when it airs).

    I remember about a decade ago when Vuze (? Can’t remember the exact name, just a blue frog and the name starting with V) and TVu doing this where it relied on users to share their cable access over the internet. Both were free but not really reliable on a day to day basis or for the exact channel/showing you wanted to see. It was as if someone had recorded their screen at home and was streaming for the world to see, but the quality was very good. Drawback was that it was only whatever that person was watching. Couldn’t stream multiple channels at once.

    But this is less common place nowadays because most people would rather have on demand titles akin to Netflix where you have total control over what is shown on your TV and the ability to pause and rewind or fast forward if desired. There’s also the fact that you’re not chained to only watch what some network has decided they want to air today, which often was a rerun or out of sequential order if they played multiple episodes in a row. As well as the ability to get up and do other things and not have to worry about something because you can’t rewind or pause. And then there’s ads shown on each network despite the fact you pay to have this “premium” service.

    TL;DR: unlikely to find a high seas alternative in this day and age of on demand streaming to cable access/YouTube TV.