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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Finding things is such a pain in the ass nowadays. You get a problem with something, say you need a spare part. None of the stores have it. It is on Amazon…but it won’t be here for a solid two weeks. It’s infuriating.

    Something that should take less than an hour to fix is now a multi week wait, because of stupid online retailers. And it will be something super common, like a tool to tighten up loose spokes on a bike wheel.













  • Typically this sort of stuff is the tip of the iceberg, especially in places where bad news that makes leaders look like idiots are suppressed. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the sort of 2007 event that got 2008 rolling.

    Aside from potentially rawdogging a massive economic meltdown based on extremely shaky loans, market speculation and corruption, building a lot of half built buildings is also terrible for the environment now that they are occupying lands that used to be habitat. Some people probably bought places that will also never be finished, now.



  • The budget provides insufficient (or no) funding for future NASA flagship missions: LISA, the space-based successor to LIGO, the Nancy Roman Telescope, an already-constructed super-Hubble that’s awaiting launch, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory, the first-ever telescope that will be capable of directly imaging Earth-sized worlds at Earth-like distances around Sun-like stars, and our best hope for finding our first inhabited planet beyond Earth.

    That part about super hubble kills me. This is terrible. Is there any way to redirect all my federal tax income directly into NASA? :P