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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I originally wrote this for [email protected] but it works pretty good for me too:

    NATO Astronaut 1: It never gets old, huh?

    NATO Astronaut 2: Nope.

    Astronaut 1: It kinda makes you want to…

    Astronaut 2: Break into a song?

    Astronaut 1: Yep.

    I love the trenches,

    I love the roadside mines,

    I love blown bridges,

    I love when turrets fly.

    I love the whole world

    And all its sights and sounds.

    Boom-de-yah-da, boom-de-yah-da (twice)

    I love my plane-fus,

    I love nuke submarines,

    I love logistics,

    I love democracy!

    I love the whole world

    And all its craziness

    Boom-de-yah-da, boom-de-yah-da (twice)

    I love dictators

    (I like to watch em hang)

    I love Three Gorges

    I love when things go bang!

    I love the whole world

    It’s such a brilliant place

    Boom-de-ah-da, boom-de-ah-da (repeating until fade)







  • By simple, I mean the cliched small talk questions that people on the internet seem to have a lot of contempt for. Had a great conversation with a lady yesterday that stemmed off of asking about the weather. Mentioned my work, she had a son in the same area, I asked her how many kids she had, how she met her husband, etc. Ended up talking about her cousin with a law degree who can’t find work here after immigrating. People have so much contempt for the simple questions, but they’re cliches because they work. You just have to listen and latch on to the things they mention.

    Edit: Lets say a simple question is one where 100% of people have an opinion on it, 90% of that opinion is guaranteed to align with yours, and the remaining 10% won’t be a dealbreaker. Weather, families, sports, etc.



  • Oh, yes, a single survivor, who’s Wikipedia article calls it out as rare exception. The one that survived by sticking to safe topics like making fun of alcoholics and capitalist nations. All of it’s other peers died, of course. And that definitely compares to the Simpsons 20-something years long career of poking fun at just about every aspect of American culture and government, not to mention the thousands of other satirical print and media works generated by free Western society.

    My apologies, I guess you could publish satire in the Soviet Union, provided you were feeling lucky(and willing to bend the knee).




  • It is very important to understand that the most apocalyptic visions of a climate change future are unlikely. Credible prognoses of the future predict that the world will suffer, and development will slow, but overall humanity will survive and even continue to grow.

    I say this not to deny the effects of climate change, but because I sincerely believe that people use apocalyptic predictions to justify slacktivism. By deciding that the world is doomed, and they will go extinct regardless of what they do, people absolve themselves of their responsibility to agitate (including violently) for change. The world is genuinely unrecognizable compared to even 10 years ago, let alone 50. People are far more resilient than the worst predictions give them credit for, and even marginal victories will have real consequences for the future that we will live to see.