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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Working late, heart problems when stressed, no time to work on the house, snapping at your family when they cause a bigger setback?

    Dude, your job is killing you. You are being worked too hard. Your stress is too high. How many panic attacks have you had since you’ve worked there? Your family will mourn you if you die for your job. Your job will post your position on Indeed the day after.

    I was in your boat. I tried working less, asking management for help, taking vacation, meditation, etc. Some of those helped a little, but it didn’t fix it. I got a job elsewhere and while it’s not perfect, my family life is better, I feel much better and my heart doesn’t hurt.

    Take care of yourself. Your job won’t.








  • The Cherokee were disarmed just prior to the Trail of Tears. They had to surrender their weapons as invaders broke into their homes, destroyed their crops, and split families apart. They were then reliant on the federal government’s soldiers, who rounded them up into camps until they were marched to what was to be only their land forever, Indian Territory. Now Oklahoma. Where we still fight the state and governor Stitt for our treaty rights.

    There are still Cherokee in North Carolina because one man, Tsali (pronounced like Charlie), fought back when his wife was being stabbed by a soldiers bayonet and killed him. He then led survivors to the mountains for a hard couple of years of starvation until the government relented. They worked with Yonaguska, a chief, to reach a diplomatic solution to allow the refugees to stay in their homelands. If they executed Tsali and all of his children so no one else would rise up.

    They killed him and his son for trying to defend his home and family. They killed many others in the camps and the trail itself. Many children were stolen and enslaved. But the Cherokee wanted a reasonable, diplomatic solution that didn’t involve violence when the US government absolutely wanted all of those things.

    I’ll keep my guns.


  • Finally, an OS for me! My biggest complaint since the days of Windows 95 has been the lack of being able to add new features. I didn’t really care what they are, but I just like the process of subscribing to additional features until I can max them all out.

    And secondly, my next biggest gripe has been how hard it is to find AI. It’s never at my fingertips. Now that it’ll be integrated into the OS itself, I can finally use AI for everything! And if I can buy new hardware annually to allow me to resubscribe to all the latest features, while telling AI my shipping habits, I think it’ll be perfect!

    I can’t wait to give Bill Gates money for this! I know he’ll spend it on a good cause. Maybe two young Russian good causes! He’s such a cool guy and not at all a billionaire creepo, thank goodness!







  • Toy Story was great. But after three or four, it becomes a nightmare. You have these plastic, immortal figures cursed to live forever. They can’t tell the ones they love that they’re real and have emotions, feelings, and desires. They have the misfortune to see everyone they care about get old and die, while they linger on. They can’t die. They have no agency. They exist to serve. They are slaves to children that don’t know how the world works.

    What does this say about our world? What lesson can we learn from their tragic lives?

    Maybe we should pity them. Maybe we shouldn’t grow attached to them. Maybe it’s a commentary on how man creates out of a desire to live, only to grow bored and toss that love away when it’s no longer novel. Maybe it says that even our best intentions lead to misery and torture.

    Our maybe they should just stop milking the franchise because it’s uncomfortable now.


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    23 days ago

    The overwhelming majority of bullets are used against paper or steel targets. Most hunters take the entire carcass for butchering, so the eagles aren’t eating lead from animals shot and left in the wilderness. And given the volume needed, I wouldn’t be surprised that they’re eating fragments fired at steel targets that they mistake for rocks to keep in their stomach to grind up food.