Most useful verdicts
Start with the verdict most likely to save you from yourself.
Technofatty's strongest checks, grouped by what you are about to send, post, buy, trust, argue about, or eat.
Before you send
Messages that need a cooler room
Use these when the draft, group chat, or post might age badly once someone else reads it.
Life
Should I Send That Message Gauge
Paste the message and get a verdict on whether to send it, redraft it, or leave it alone.
Get the verdict
Life
Should This Go In The Group Chat?
Check whether a message belongs in the group chat or needs a smaller, calmer room.
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Life
Future Embarrassment Gauge
Estimate how likely a post is to feel regrettable once the moment has passed.
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Open the Before You Post situation hub
Comparison mode
Compare two message drafts before sending
Paste two versions and let Podge decide which one is cleaner, calmer, and less likely to become screenshot weather.
Compare two drafts
Before you trust the feed
Synthetic hype and suspicious patterns
Check sudden consensus, repeated outrage, and recommendation systems before the feed borrows your judgement.
Tech
Fake Fan Detector
Estimate whether a wave of hype looks organic, coordinated, or a little too carefully farmed.
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Tech
Astroturf Detector
Estimate whether a campaign, comment wave, or public outrage looks grassroots or manufactured.
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Tech
Algorithm Tax Calculator
Estimate how much money, time, and attention a platform's recommendations are quietly extracting.
Get the verdict
Open the Is This Feed Lying To Me? situation hub
Before you buy
Money pressure in a nicer hat
Separate useful spending from discount theatre, subscription fog, and upgrade self-justification.
Money
Sale Suspicion Gauge
Check whether a discount is genuinely useful or just turning mild interest into urgency.
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Money
Subscription Shame Index
Find out how much your subscriptions are quietly costing you in money and attention.
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Life
Fancy Version Justification Engine
Compare value, longevity, and cost before paying more for the better version.
Get the verdict
Open the Money Pressure situation hub
Before the household meeting
Phones, family rules, and emotional tech
Check the adult example, the household phone treaty, and whether AI support is replacing real people.
Life
Parent Phone Hypocrisy Meter
Check whether your household phone rules are backed by example or being enforced from inside the same swamp.
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Life
Parental Phone Treaty Generator
Turn household phone arguments into a clearer, more enforceable set of rules.
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Life
AI Emotional Dependency Gauge
Check whether an AI assistant is helping you think or quietly becoming your main emotional outlet.
Get the verdict
Open the Household Tech situation hub
Before you judge the plate
Food verdicts with the caution left in
Put dinner under a health lens without turning one meal into a personality trial.
Health
Should I Be Proud Of This Plate?
Put a meal on trial under a chosen health lens and get green flags, watch-outs, and a tiny repair job.
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Money
Percentage Change Engine
Work out the percentage increase or decrease between two values with a clear result and worked explanation.
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Money
VAT Engine
Add or remove VAT from a price with clear totals, tax breakdown, and net versus gross context.
Get the verdict
Open the Plate Verdict situation hub
