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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • That’s not it at all. Literally, my children told me, “I don’t want to go up, I just want to go to the houses with bowls”. But it’s not a lazy thing, it’s a social anxiety thing. We don’t chat with strangers, we don’t make small talk with people we don’t know, we don’t ask people things we can find out without asking people things. We’re socially awkward parents and we have socially awkward children.

    Millennials, the ones who would much rather text than call on the phone their dearest friends and closest relatives, are 35-40 years old. They’re the ones with halloweening children and those kids are just ask averse to face to face interactions with neighborhood residents as we are.










  • Drain cleaners work from long exposure on a blockage. You wouldn’t want to handle a chemical that could dissolve all that hair and bio buildup by pouring it through a slow drain because if it splashed on your skin it’d burn through your skin in the same time.

    Manual removal is always best. If you want to be proactive, get a long test-tube brush and put it down the drain periodically so you don’t have to disassemble the drain.

    It’s disgusting, but it’s satisfying to take it apart and give it the old toothbrush like you suggested from time to time.



  • The biggest problem is they’ve over committed what those things are and what they can do.

    A lightsaber can cut through anything and the force can do just about any telekinesis you want it to.

    Now you need to either ignore these incredibly powerful tools or carefully design intricate, thoughtful problems that can’t be flashily solved by CGI theatrics.

    So what do they do? Well, 9/10 times, they just make a normal fucking movie/show with Star Wars painted on top. Lightsabers can be blocked by whatever weapon the bad guy has (make it zappy and then it’s basically the same as a lightsaber). Things get knocked just out of reach, people hang by their fingers of ledges, bad guys run away down that long street with no way to catch up and some Jedi stands there like a fucking oaf wishing it wasn’t so.

    All Disney does it up the ante. More power, more different lightsabers, more aliens, more locations. But then they slap that shit on whatever story they have laying around.


  • You’re so close to getting it!

    We need to make politicians and corporations fix the issues.

    It’s delusional to think people consuming less is going to magically make the free market more responsible. Like Apple sales are going to plummet and they’ll just say, “great, we won’t make as many phones” instead of making worse products that become obsolete even faster to make up the sales. What’s the free market responsible end goal? No one has phones? No one has computers? Because it’s really easy for these companies to brick your devices just with software.

    And do we then just have to submit to these corporations? Obviously, no. We need to force them to adhere to rules making our products longer lasting, with better support, without punishing people for not buying new.

    “Personal responsibility” is propaganda of the ruling class that refuses to be held accountable. These are global forces creating global crises.