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Cake day: July 12th, 2024

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  • I’d love to, but one of my senators is crackpot trumpy republican and won’t care (cus he won’t for sure) and the other is a dem who has always been vociferously opposed to all regressive stuff because she’s a lesbian. Whether or not she’s useful, ehh… she’s got a good and long-term track record for the state…

    Frankly I’m too tired to keep playing these games when it quite clearly doesn’t matter. If we weren’t so heavily gerrymandered we’d have mostly blue state reps, but we got hit with the ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-gerybomb! decades back and have no clear path to fair electoral maps so we stay solidly swingy.


  • I made some video game themed Xmas ornaments out of air dry clay as a gift… they turned out fine, but I didn’t realize the paint I used on them didn’t do a good enough job sealing them up. They should have been resin-dipped. In places the paint cracked, moisture got in, and over a couple years expanded the paper-based clay through the cracks so they look super creepy now. Very disappointing.

    Mistakes are a great way to learn, though.





  • I think maybe a better option would be to simply ban new development of disaster-prone land. Looking to build a new house or subdivision? Look elsewhere. And maybe disincentivize rebuilding on the same lot your house used to be on, eg. insurance only pays half if you plan to stay.

    But what happens when all those tens of millions of people who can’t get housing in their current state flood into low COL places where we still have good water and forest resources, where drought and major storms are significantly less of a concern, but where people from high cost areas can very easily buy all the cheap houses and land, preventing locals from ever being able to buy ever? I mean even the housing inflation since 2020 alone has priced most people out of ownership in my state, cuz our wages are super low.

    Do we start cutting everything down throughout the Midwest to build up the same giant cities the coastal areas have? Do we start pulling all the ground and surface water up to accommodate the populations of California, Florida, Texas, Georgia, etc. that experience fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, or hurricane on a regular basis? Cuz that’s going to lead to drought and fire, too, and then nowhere will be safe/safer.

    I don’t think getting people to leave those areas, mass-migration style, is a particularly good option, honestly… it’s just going to cause the problems to move with the huge populations. The only good option long-term is fixing the mess the rich have created. Or rather, forcing them to do it.







  • I got let go from a job because I told them I have absolutely zero interest of ever moving to a management position (I managed people in the past, which they knew, and I can do it, but have no desire to do that much work ever again). Apparently the company doesn’t want people who just want to be good at their jobs, they want everyone to move up to project management and beyond so they can all compete for limited promotions… and like… I just don’t want that.

    Ultimately, I realized that place was highly toxic in a ton of ways so it’s for the best, but it was devastating at the time…

    Anyway, I’m totally on board with gen z saying fuck that. After all, there’s been heavy talk for years about how middle managers are pointless busywork… at least someone is listening.



  • A hybrid would likely be what I’d be able to get if I were to upgrade my ICE (which still runs fine, but is getting up there in years and miles). I don’t drive a lot, mostly around town, but every 13 weeks I have a round trip that’s about 5 hours with nowhere to charge at my destination, and EVs in the price range I’d want for my use pattern don’t have that kind of range. The leaf would need a charge on that trip, for example. Admittedly there are a ton of fully electric cars that can do more than double that range, but without doing too much looking since I can’t afford it anyway, I assume they either aren’t available in the US or are wiiiiildly expensive for how little I’d use it.

    I’m getting an e-bike instead and just using my car a dozen or so times a year when the bike isn’t sufficient (the 13 week trip, picking up large items, and whatever travel for stuff not in my small town). It’s basically like having a hybrid, but a lot less convenient :)


  • Sure. It’s unpaid to attract people who don’t need money to survive, and bar everyone else. And it gives them some modicum of direct control and power to change things as they see fit.

    Effectively, it’s a wealth filter. It works with internships, why not this ideologically-motivated nonsense?

    Besides, rich people who don’t need income don’t know how to do actual work, so 80 hour weeks is probably code for “play a lot of golf and take 4 hour lunches, work drunk, whatever, just have fun with it man!”