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Cake day: March 8th, 2025

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  • You ever watch interviews of people about the internet when it was first starting to become accessible to people?

    Everyone was so optimistic it would unite the world. Bring peace and prosperity. Join minds to conquer world hunger. Homelessness. Cure diseases. Racism and all the other isms would disappear when we could no longer use physical features and physical location to subjugate and divide.

    Knowledge and information accessable to everyone would spur more knowledge and advancements.

    It was naive. But also. It’s what it could have been. It had that potential once upon a time.






  • Someone shamed some old vet beggar who would sit in a wheelchair by a known intersection in town.

    He was missing a leg.

    Someone posted on some community FB page , photos of the guy standing and bending down or something.

    And people were going crazy saying he was a faker for asking for money.

    Dude was a vet who lost his leg.

    He wasn’t paralyzed. He never said he was.

    He is in the chair because he can’t walk much.

    Doesn’t mean he can’t stand at all.

    Idk. But yeah it’s a common misconception that only paralyzed people need wheel chairs.