every time me and my friends make the drive down from Toronto to Buffalo for the trader joes/target/barnes&nobles/ulta etc shopping day trip, I’m just reminded how everything is really actually just available back in canada too.. After the USD to CAD conversion it’s not even that worth it too..
that being said… a Wendy’s 4for4 is an incredible thing…
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Given current events I have been going to Wendy’s a lot. I live in Ohio - we literally should be the best at this. I was going to rank all of the Wendy’s but then I calculated how much I have spent at wendys in the past 6 months and I am a little ashamed to admit that the value is $501.49. Do not pass judgement here. That is for me to do.
The best Wendy’s I have experienced in the state is going to have to be in Lorain Ohio and the worst, I’m so sorry to say, is in downtown Cincinnati by Union terminal so sorry
Apr 3, 2024
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you gotta be fucked in the head if you wouldn’t drive 20 minutes to get a free burrito. DUDE you are getting a WHOLE MEAL for ZERO DOLLARS. for the price of. driving 20 minutes.
Dec 24, 2023
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Shes always been perfect I don’t have much else to say. Wish people saw her worth like I did Tbh. Don’t forget to grab a spoon for the frosty
Feb 6, 2024
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I made a Goodreads account recently and it asked me to rate some popular books I’d read before. Little did I know, every time I ranked a book, it would give me 5 more similar to that one, and then 5 more from that, and on and on until a neverending phylogenetic tree of books emerged on my screen.
I was on FaceTime with my friend as I did this, and we compared which books we’d both read, ones we loved, ones we got forced to read in school, ones we read as preteens, etc. But half an hour in and no end to the Goodreads algorithm, but stuck in The Very Hungry Caterpillar-y children’s book branch of the algorithm tree that I couldn’t escape, I started to get mad. So I command-Q’d chrome and called it a day.
This week I went back to organise my To Read list and to purge all the loose one-book memos on my notes app. My professor recently gave me her recommendations on queer literature and I wanted to properly organise them. On my profile it said I’d already read some 100+ books and I’d given them all 5 star ratings. Ok well now that’s pissing me off. Why is there digital clutter on my brand new account, and why did I give all that information to them anyways.? I love to categorise, but did I really need to log my readership of the individual 39 Clues books?
I feel similarly about when I first downloaded letterboxd and it made me go down a similar never ending algorithm of potential movies I’d watched before. I did spend an unreasonable amount of time swiping through those movies trying to remember if I really did watch Horton Hears a Who in 2008(?) or not.
Why do I feel the need to share this with the algorithm? genuinely what purpose does this serve me? Why am I volunteering memories from my 7 year old self when I learnt English by reading Geronimo Stilton books for the first time?
Anyways, I deleted all the past data from my Goodreads account. There’s only logs from my current reads, and the list of books I want to read next. There’s comfort in organising and seeing your life laid out in list/grid categories, like unlocking achievements on video games - oh did you know I read so and so and yeah I was a pretentious little bitch in high school and every YA book I read in 2013 has gotta be logged and
But there’s another type of comfort in keeping that information away from the internet where they’ll find a way to use that data against you. I can‘t think of a single occasion I’d need personalised ads for the chick-lit books I read in primary school but I know the algorithm is going to eventually find a way to sell my nostalgia back to me somehow… I‘m going to open any of my little apps and see hyper specific #ad on my screen.
I know I’ve given so much of me away online already - and look what I’m doing right now(!) , sharing my interests and recommendations to strangers online hah .. I won’t lie about the fact that it brings me joy to live online - it’s been my playground for so much of my life - Like sorry I am literally the internet explorer -But there was a time before I lived on the internet. I don’t think they need to know everything about Then.
I recommend not giving up everything about yourself to the machine
Mar 8, 2024
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Rawdog the sound of society while you walk… the tea is crazy
May 17, 2024