Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby what the heck, I wish my school had board game cafes nearby
Board game cafe, ordering a chocolate milkshake at it, and just hanging out is great
general
Sunday, August 16, 2026
That's a shame tiny. My school is literally only known for engineering, math, and computer science
Waterloo is also extremely coop and job focussed, so people are more serious then I think some other schools
there were party's and stuff, but there was not a party culture
if you wanted to party, you went to Laurier, which was just a 10 minute walk away
New person, what did you do at school
Replying to Aelin #aeldritch We went to barcades! Sometimes we went to the bar to play Pokemon on our 3ds. And sometimes we went to the club or a punk show. My school was just close enough to the University of Florida that normal things just got weird so fast haha
barcades are cool
That's a new one
lmao
The majority of people here are engineers of some flavour, I am doing a math PhD
the majority of people who did higher education are engineers*
we also have some highschool/middleschool dropouts, so its a good mix!
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 For context, everyone disagreed with me that this meme didn't make sense to me lol
I feel like the definition of stranger changes a lot when you're told that in elementary school to when you're in college
it's not a sketchy man in a trenchcoat offering you heroin to corrupt your immortal soul and get you into the Pipeline™, it's some zooted guy you think was in your freshman-year psychology class giving everyone tabs at a party
I just took it as "I know of them somehow, but I have never interacted with them before then"
or less
From my vantage, drug use essentially dropped to zero after people finished college, I don't know anyone irl who does anything anymore
not a bad thing, just an observation I wasn't expecting
since all the millennial humor I saw as a kid led me to believe every 20-something was going to be hitting a bong non-stop the rest of their life
Some of my cousins do weed
and we had hit peak weed lmao culture
but no one does anything harder
I'll attribute part of that to Cali for Tiny, since I do think its more a part of your culture out there
It's also been legal and sold in stores here for a while, so I feel weeb is a bit more prevalent that a lot of US states
the people I know still smoke, are my millennial neighbours, the 30 y/o's who hit up their local microbrewery and then stop by the pot shop on the way home
yeah I guess to clarify, all my cousins who do weed are 6-10 years older than me
the cousins my age and lower do not
know as in, I know them, not as in people I know
One time (more than 10 years ago) as I was walking up the street, barefoot, to buy some jam a guy stopped his car by me and asked if I had a spare phone I could give him. I said yes.
He drove me to my place. I gave him an old phone. Then he drove me to his.
He asked if there was anything I wanted. I said jam (and noticing that he had lots of paired socks around his place) and socks (you can never have too many pairs of socks). I guess he took pity on me since I was shoeless that day and gave me both.
Then he gave me meth from a bong. But since I already took dex-amphetameme, all that did was get me to normal and make my mouth feel smoother.
Monday, August 17, 2026
That is an insane change
since like 90-95% of people who click on a video click off within 5 seconds
I assume it still checks for real versus fake traffic
removing that would be even more insane
Even if it's just to inflate views, I hope they still track "start playing a video and immediately click away" as a negative indicator
looks like March is when the Neo 2 launches
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2026/08/15/apple-macbook-neo-2-release-date-a19-pro-specs/