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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The Republican Party has the will of the Supreme Court. That means they can rule for, or against constitutional changes unilaterally.

    They have already ruled that the President is immune to the law if they are acting in ‘official capacity’, which they have left to themselves to decide if its official or not.

    The presidential candidate has said he wants to go after the ‘enemy within’ directly referencing his political opponents.

    He can go out and round up anyone with significant pull from the Democratic party, detail them illegally, (but now legal because its in an official capacity)

    Anyone else who speaks out against the brutality will summarily be included in that.

    How far off is that from where Putin has established himself, where elections are things they say the have, but is really just a form of performance art?


  • And I’m sure the Germans who “never supported the Nazi’s” were proud of their acts of abstinence after the fact.

    Its a terrible system with FPTP for sure, but doing anything that makes it easier for really bad guys to get in power is enablement, full stop.

    Will the really bad guys care about a protest vote? No, they’ll thank you.

    Will the not so bad guys care about the protest vote if they get elected? Not really, they got elected while ignoring the voice of the people, so why change?

    To fix the system you need to get the least worst option elected, and then get out and protest, and cause as much pain for the elected officials as possible to get anything changed. Means protesting at a level that is significantly impacting the economy.

    Don’t fuck around with a ‘protest vote’ that’s going to do as much nothing as electing the Meh option.



  • I started a sentence in my class with “When I was born”. A student instantly chimed in and said “What in the 19’s?” And I thought in my head, of course you idiot, everybody is born in the 19’s. It still haunts me

    It still feels wrong to me, to see it written out, but spoken its different.

    I feel like it works to go with say, the 1600’s, which I read naturally as the 16 hundreds. But when I see 1900 I read that as the nineteen naughts, (aughts?) because so often when people are referring to periods in the 19 hundreds, its down to the decade because so much changed between each one. Or maybe I just felt that way because I’m so old now.

    Maybe in another 25 years, it’ll be far enough away that 1900’s becomes 19 hundreds in my head.








  • It’s relatively easy to self host your own git repositories.

    It’s just that Github adds a lot of extra value added features that help streamline things for larger projects, and this is why many people use it. For most people, the value they get far outweighs the inconvenience when it goes down for 10 minutes here or there.