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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • 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




  • Some of the largest nationwide protests we’ve ever had have been during Trump II. But the distances are incredibly vast.

    The continental US is just over 4,500km wide, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, which are massive as well. While DC is populated, our country is large enough that it would take a six or seven hour flight to get there if you aren’t in a hub city.

    If you are, it’s still over 5 hours of flying from L.A. to DC.

    Driving from San Francisco, CA, to WA DC takes 41 hours, when at highway speeds. And that’s without fuel, rest, or food. People are super spread out in a way Europe is not.

    The real pain is people not voting. Voting could have saved everyone loads of trouble.





  • Honestly, I’ve had better luck just getting higher quality tea and cutting sugar from morning beverages entirely. (I don’t drink coffee, but low quality teas tend to become bitter, which required sugar. Higher quality teas never become bitter)

    These days, I’m cutting sugar across the board. Shredded wheat with frozen raspberries tastes better than honey bunches of oats anyways. And the sugar I’m eating is pretty much just for fun, like pie or ice cream. No reason to accidentally ingest 28g of sugar in a breakfast bar that doesn’t even taste that good.