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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Oh yes!

    Currently down from 160 to 100kg (350 to 220lbs) and almost everyone is treating me differently. Many people didn’t make eye contact with me either on the street or in shops, some were visibly unconfortable (or slightly afraid). I had remarks all the time about how big (not fat, just imposing) I was.

    Now cashers smile at me, people on the street are more friendly. It’s night and day and it saddens me in a way. I didn’t lose weight for appearence reason but for my health, and to see for the first time how people are (were towards me) judgmental is kinda sickening.

    I just though people are sometimes a bit cold but never really associated it with my weight.




  • At first, people used itinirary (to go to Rome, first go to PlaceX, then PlaceY, etc)

    Maps of the time, when they existed, where merely illustrations, with fictionnal places sprinkled in.

    Then some attempts mesured distances between places by counting step, and overall direction. This is why most maps before 1000ce are really strange looking, but you can guess what they represent using the name of places.

    With the invention of things like the astrolab, people where able to mesure both distances and more precise direction, giving birth to triangulation, which was used until the invention of GPS