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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I mean, foster the people.

    I’m hoping that’s the obvious one for everybody.

    But also for me, Jamiroquai. Dropping some line about how it’s not nature’s way for a mother to be able to choose the color of her child randomly in the middle of a song about how the world is changing so quick, and nobody can keep up with it.

    At the same time, though, I’m nitpicking. It’s just that one line in otherwise a cool song.

    Flipside, I do not enjoy ICP, but my friends started playing the Shangri-La album, and I didn’t know it was ICP, and I was like, man, this is actually pretty good, and then they were like, yeah, it’s ICP, don’t you like it? And I was like, well shit, they got like, one kind of decent album, fuck.






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  • I don’t know. I mean, there’s a good chance that the original purchase price of the house is almost paid off, but having a sudden $76,000 increase in your bills is going to be tough on anybody. Unless they have made some very bad financial decisions outside of this, that probably is more than double their monthly mortgage.

    And as somebody who has an inordinate amount of equity in a house they purchased far too recently for the amount of equity that I have, it is not exactly easy to pull money out of a house as a homeowner, And even if they do take loans to pay the tax burden, that doesn’t mean that the money has been handled. It just has taken today’s problem and pushed it off for tomorrow.

    I’m not attempting to justify them. I’m just examining their side with the slightest benefit of the doubt.


  • I would actually prefer anonymous advice when I’m having issues in a relationship because typically when people gripe about their relationships they only talk about the bad things and they only talk to people that care about them.

    This ends up making it so that the people you are talking to hear all the bad stuff about the other person, and that causes them to start to dislike that other person.

    It’s too easy to build negative feedback loops that can destroy relationships.

    If talking to the internet isn’t good and talking to your friends isn’t good, then the only thing that’s really valid and valuable left would be to talk to a relationship counselor, or a personal therapist, whose only goal is to help you achieve your goals in a way that is healthy for you.






  • I have friends who have dreams about going to work.

    I have friends who have dreams about showing up to a hangout and hanging out with people.

    I dream about leading a choir of nuns on a singing rampage through New York and fighting epic space battles where it turns out that the Darth Vader equivalent of my dream is actually my cousin, which I only learn after I kill him, where priceless and irreplaceable books on witchcraft are destroyed to make wrapping paper due to a shopkeeper’s error, where I am told mysteries of the universe and song and hear songs that have never been sung before.

    Dreams are like your brain’s way of processing information and defragging your personality.

    Everyone’s got different kinds of dreams.



  • I know no one is going to take my idea and run with it so there’s not really anything to be gained by shooting it down, lol.

    That being said, your issue could be solved with a combination of regulation and divestment.

    Regulate that certain subjects have to be taught even if they are loss leaders for the university otherwise the university loses accreditation, and then for the people who want to learn artistic things like pottery and music that might cost the university more to run than they can make on it, create new schools that focus on that rather than keeping them in the university system, but attach valid degrees to them by requiring the mandatory core classes to be taken at the local community college or university of the students choosing.

    Maybe you can subsidize them somewhat by making them non-for-profit systems and doing fundraisers for the arts and requiring that universities in their communities include them in their annual donor drives as a separate option.

    It’s not a perfect solution, but its the first of many possible ones that I can think of, I’m sure that if we were appointed as the committee to fix the American College system we would make many more and better all-encompassing solutions and solve the problem in a matter of years.


  • I put a $50 pre-order down on the new slate electric vehicle.

    Hopefully it pans out, and in like two years I’ll be able to buy one, but if not, I mean it was only 50 bucks and it’s investing towards a more electric theoretical future, so it’s like I won’t cry too much about it if I lose it, but I hope I don’t.

    shit my copium supply is running low


  • That is true, but I feel like we could do better.

    Community colleges should be as close to free as is reasonable, and normal universities should be federally limited to charging no more than, say one year of the maximum average income for a particular degree.

    If the college wants to teach something like everyone’s perennial mocking favorite underwater basket weaving, then that should be done as an elective and paid out of pocket by the student.

    Even if you were to pick something like being a doctor, the fact that you might make a quarter of a million dollars a year and end up having to pay a quarter of a million dollars to do it is infinitely better than working minimum wage for the rest of your life.