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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • How would a civil war even play out nowadays?

    I imagine the United States fracturing into multiple independent states that form alliances with each other in some way. Will there be independent cities, landlocked, surrounded by enemies? Will forces move in to occupy and conquer lands up to and around cities? How many states will survive to have actual statehood?

    “We traveled into the Carolina empire into an area once known as Southwest Virginia. Fighting continued for months, but we couldn’t make progress. The locals know these mountains better than we ever could, even with our tech, they were killing us with pellet guns and improvised explosives called, “yee haws”. So we made our way into Georgabamasippi to hide among the Cousins and regroup. I’m keeping hope alive that the United States of California will make its way east, but even the word California can get you killed in these parts. I know you’ll probably never get this message, but it’s set to send as soon as I get signal, if I ever get signal. I love you, my darling. -1337NUTZ69420”

    I hope I never have to live through anything like that, but I’d love to play the video game or watch the series of movies. :p


  • This. As a hillbilly with no access to books growing up, with my education practically stopping at the 4th grade and no stores in sight to purchase books from, I would have never had access to the things I read without piracy.

    I half believe that’s why it’s an issue in the first place.

    I started my reading adventure at 640x480 on windows 98.




  • Hey man, I’m an Appalachian hillbilly. I’m right there with you. My people actually busted their asses to win union representation, fought and died for it, killed their opposition in the streets.

    Nowadays they’re licking boots and voting roughly 90% for republicans who lie and tell them that coal can come back.

    If their grandparents knew that they’d turned to suck the cocks of the coal bosses they’d rise from their graves and gun them down.

    We’ve not only been left to rot, but actively participated in covering ourselves in shit and now we’re letting the maggots feast on our flesh.

    I understand your frustration.

    We have great music, great food, flat asses, and no brains.


  • Bro, it is all of us.

    Human beings have shown over and over again throughout history that no matter their heritage, they’re just dumb and incapable of seeing it.

    We have brilliant humans all over the world from varying backgrounds, but most of us (myself included in oh so many ways) are just pitifully incapable of getting any of this right.

    We focus on what is in front of us and relevant in a moment, and when another human starts running and screaming, we all start running and screaming. We don’t stop to ask why because we don’t want to get eaten or left behind.

    Someone else shows up and starts eating a little grass in the little stupid field, and the rest start looking for things to chase them off over. “Something ain’t right about his hat. It’s funny! Git eeeeem!”