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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The Democrats don’t seem to have a plan for 5 minutes from now, let alone for 3 or so years in the future.

    But it sounds like they’re in good company. Established politicians all over Europe seem lost by the current direction of global politics. Based on thus sticks there’s lots of vague ideals with no implementation - more than you’d even expect to see normally.

    And the Republican party is getting witlessly dragged along in the wake of those running the Trump administration. And it seems like even those ‘masterminds’ are just aggressively winging it based on the high-level objectives they outlined in Project 2025.

    Everyone is lost and stumbling around in the dark. Some might have a faded glow stick in their hand, but that’s not much help.






  • Good article.

    Having seen the photo in the article about their hoop house, I can see why the city considered it a greenhouse. Hell, that thing is bigger than most residential greenhouses I’ve seen.

    But what kind of a miserable shrew of a neighbor snitches on something like that?! It’s a fucking greenhouse! Big deal!

    It’s awesome that this lady and her husband put that much work in and got so much success growing their own veggies. Like the article says, they are great examples to their kids, and to other people. If one of my neighbors went all-in like that I’d be cheering them on and getting inspired by them.

    It’s also sad that race seems to be an issue. But not unsurprising, if true.

    Residential food gardens will continue to become an increasingly important and popular topic. With food prices rising and food quality declining, people will gravitate to it, like this family did. It’s one thing if you’re growing food on an industrial level in your yard. But few people are and will be doing that. Zoning permits should be relaxed a big in these cases.



  • “It’s a very empathetic place,” she says of Reddit. “For my wedding, I’ve found help emotionally, logistically and inspiration-wise.”

    Empathetic? Really?! On reddit?!!

    Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good people still using it. But there are a ton of assholes and trolls poisoning a lot of discussions, deliberately antagonizing people, or derailing conversations with pedantic bullshit.

    If she thinks Reddit is empathetic she’d be blown away by most of the Fediverse.







  • That’s a ridiculously low bar, but it’s also an important distinction.

    Do I want Gavin Newsom to be the Democrat nominee for 2028? Hell no! He’s revealed himself to be a shallow political opportunist and an ideological chameleon. And I think that party can do better.

    But regardless, would he be an improvement over Trump? Hell yes!

    Another question is: is he - a supposedly populist liberal from California - even electable on a national stage? I don’t think so. But then, we live in very ‘interesting’ times. So who knows.

    The third question is: will we have a fair enough election in 2028 (or an election at all)? That remains to be seen.



  • Apparently images alone don’t work. It has to be a video following a very specific set of instructions (looking to one side, then to the other, then straight ahead - or something like that).

    But your point still stands. Apparently a lot of kids are getting around this by using AI generated videos, or having a parent do it for them, or just drawing giving facial hair onto themselves.

    Yes, it’s definitely worse than Discord. Discord without age verification is still mostly usable. Roblox without it isn’t.

    The silver lining for me is that my kids have basically abandoned the platform now. I told them I’m not sending their IDs in because there’s such a huge risk of a data breach.