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Cake day: August 27th, 2025

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  • Number. If I glance twice just a couple minutes apart, I know there’s an unusual drain going on and know to look for problem apps/processes I forgot to disable when done with them.

    Also the number just feels like more direct communication to me than a graphic and is easier to make choices with. It’s not quite the same thing, but when I look at a clock I don’t want to see “5:30ish”, I want to know if its 5:28 or later so I can start my end of workday process.

    So, number because spectrum.






  • Adding to this, the documentaries also include interviews with people saying “I thought they should look into this more and they didn’t”, or “Our department was really trying to solve this, and it just took awhile.” The implication that someone out there cares. It is less isolating than horror movies generally are, which tend to show how things went wrong usually because no one cared or no one knew anything was up. I guess the documentary is the natural sequel story - we couldn’t stop the bad thing from happening, maybe multiple times, but we are at least aware of it and trying to figure it out.