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Cake day: March 7th, 2024

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  • 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated […] the cases had been concentrated in a “more insular” community in the county, among people who attend church and private schools together. Many of the children are also home-schooled

    After how groups like these actively spread covid, I’m really struggling to find any sympathy for them.








  • It’s not just the morale of the protestors, it’s the morale and courage of everyone. Lawmakers, judges, career civil servants, scientists, educators - they’re being attacked by the government and they feel helpless and alone. When you feel like there’s no one out there on your side, it’s easy to go along, to give up. To stop fighting back, to keep evil in check even if you can only do a small bit here and there.

    By going out and being visible, we’re telling judges and lawyers and lawmakers to keep fighting, to push back against fascism. By giving people in power courage to continue to stand up and fight back, we’re preserving some amount of political power for ourselves, slowing down the fascist speed-run, giving time, energy and momentum both to people who want to resist and those who need to hide. We’re making it less easy and less convenient for the administration, and making it more obvious that they’re lying when they claim to have a mandate.

    I’d love to live a quiet life, but if the price of that is giving up on equality and freedom, letting people I love and respect be trampled - how could I respect myself? Where is my honor and integrity? I don’t know where or how this ends, but if I come out the other side, I’d prefer to be able to live with myself.






  • My problem with Tesla is that so many things seem half-unthinking, half-finished or half-assed:

    Unthinking: I know! I’ll put a ledge in from of the headlights, so snow can pile up while I’m driving!

    Unfinished: all the seam mismatches and eternally unfinished-but-really-close! full self-driving (it ain’t gonna happen).

    Half-assed: that recall they had to do because sometimes the latch doesn’t catch properly and the hood flies open when you’re driving and blocks your view. Tesla’s solution isn’t to fix or replace the hood latch so this doesn’t happen; they push a software up that monitors the hood latch and pops up a warning, telling you to pull over and check the hood latch. Because apparently fixing the issue that their poor design (see #1) and bad implementation (see #2) doesn’t warrant an actual fix, they’re just going to fob the risk , the cost and the work off to the customer.


  • Early last week, I had a kidney stone attack. I was taking a picture for my doctor of the blood clots that I’d pissed out, and I noticed the toilet was … not great. So I took the pictures, poured don’t bleach in, swished it around and waited for the next attack phase.

    This morning, I walked in to use the bathroom (as I’ve been doing this entire week), and there was a bottle of bleach sitting right out in front of the toilet. Like, when you’re moving to sit down, you need to maneveur around the bottle; and when you’re sitting, you have to keep your legs apart to accommodate this gallon bottle of bleach.

    I have been maneveuring around this extremely inconveniently placed bottle of bleach cut an entire week, and I have no memory of it! It’s so infuriating!

    Re: your wallet: maybe put a Tile in it? Or designate one specific place for it to live in the house?