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Cake day: August 11th, 2025

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  • What if the ‘other’ is building a nuke? What if they refuse to vaccinate and are a notch away from creating a new superbug that will likely kill you? What if they’re pumping pollution into the air and water and maximizing climate change? What if they’re raping and violently torturing children?

    What if you need them to maintain your food supply, electricity, medical care, etc? What if you need the local ‘other’ to back you up if another more distant ‘other’ decides it going to kill you and take your land?

    I say this as a heavily individualist minded person myself: You can’t operate a worthwhile society as a collection of islands. You need cooperation.

    It would be better to eradicate spacetime itself with a vacuum decay event than to allow a completely brutal “every man for themselves” world to continue existing. Pointless suffering.



  • Bare minimum, if at any point you’ve expressed as a politician negative views towards democracy or any core philosophical element of democracy or indicates a desire to remove or destroy it, you should be bared from running for office.

    Any politician who expresses positive feelings or views of historical parties who dismantled or destroyed democracy should also bar them from running.

    You wouldn’t even have to use the word “fascism”. Just create a law that establishes that its illegal to dismantle, weaken, or destroy democracy and that even conspiring or openly stating the criminal threat of doing so is also a crime and on top of whatever criminal penalties it also prevents you from running for office as punishment.






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    10 days ago

    I closed the community center I work at alone yesterday. Had a homeless guy come by after closing wanting me to bag some pantry food for them and I told them I was wrapping up for the day and they’d have to come tomorrow. He threw a hissy fit, I shut the door, and 2 minutes later another burly hairy dude in an old SUV came by with a nasty grumpy look on his face parked directly in front of our front door. They waited outside the door for me to leave.

    Suffice to say I wasn’t interested in getting jumped/stabbed over whatever they were thinking and I exited out the back and snuck the rest of the way to my car. What a fucking memorable Monday.