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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.




  • Yeah because the economy is totally great right now and finding work that pays the bills is super easy!

    — things said by people who are out of touch

    Even when the economy was good, it took months to find new employment if you have to have any sort of standard (like minimum income above the minimum wage threshold). Most people right now can’t afford to be out of work for months.

    Maybe your area was good, maybe your skill set is in demand, maybe you have zero standards or requirements to support your family, whatever it is, your experience is not at all the standard, and it’s much more likely you just have survivor bias. That’s when you say “it was easy for me, it should be easy for everyone!” While everyone else is struggling.










  • If it’s the primary, do you keep those drives with OS pre-installed on them, or is there like… some sort of bios-like built in to hold the ummm… OS image…? And what about the programs and files and stuff? All vpn/network accessed?

    Hopefully you can sort out what that is asking… I know just enough about computers to fix Linux problems… if other people have posted about them… usually… with significant effort.


  • I haven’t had eggs since they were $2/dozen, so zero in like 8+ months, but when I have eggs (starting chickens and quail) I’ll be eating probably 2-4/day. When they were cheap I was averaging 3/day, including baked goods and such.

    I really don’t eat much meat (can’t afford that either, but my digestive system doesn’t do well with a lot of meat anyway), and my mushroom cultures are taking foooooooorrrrrreeeeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrr, so… need protein somewhere.



  • 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.