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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • You got a solution, or anything new to add to the conversation? Or are you just going to whine like everyone else?

    Cause frankly, I don’t have a fix for this. At least not one that is overly authoritarian, like controlling every piece of media that is available to children, and creating a guide for what characteristics of different role models should be emulated, and what should be avoided.

    Maybe at a certain point, it is up to the individual to form their own set of desirable positive characteristics and seek to incorporate those traits into themselves. We can’t (or really shouldn’t) just thought and content police everything for every child. They have growth and developement that the must do for themselves, no one else can do it for them.






  • Here’s my pro tip.

    You want a unique picturesque wedding on a budget?

    National Parks in the US. If you keep your guest list under 50 people, you can get married anywhere in the park, provided you don’t block access, put up decorations, or damage the park, and it’s free! If you have more than 50 people, you need a permit, and those are raffled off per day, and almost no one uses them.

    I got married on the bluffs overlooking Little Hunter’s Beach in Acadia National Park. The drive, food, and lodging for my wedding there cost less than the first payment for the venue of my “local” ceremony in my home city, which we ended up canceling anyway.







  • Lawn. I have a lawn. Just grass. Takes water and space. Makes a little O2 and that’s it.

    FWIW, I’m trying to get rid of it. Plans to build a solar array in the back yard, cover the patio with a greenhouse that connects the house to the garage, side yard is going to be raised planters, and the front is going to be mostly wildflowers with some small pathways and nooks for reading and relaxing. I’d like to get it to the point where I can “mow” the whole property with just a string trimmer.


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    1 month ago

    Clockwise, counter clockwise. Classic time shorthand (IE, half past ten, quarter to eleven). Time estimations (easy to see a half minute on a analog clock, digital just goes from 2:00 to 2:01)

    I think analog clock displays are more elegant, and are overall nicer than digital. Personal preference though.



  • The reality started to crumble in 4th grade. I had a history book that covered the “main” wars for the US. Chapters on WWI and WWII had sizable “causes for conflict” and those sections for Vietnam and Korea were much much smaller.

    9/11 was just a few years after that moment for me. Seeing people around me laughing at the thought of “revenge” by bombing other people endlessly was a major crack. Farenheit 911 was the absolute “we’re not the good guys” moment for me. My idea of patriotism shifted. I stopped believing that America was great, and started believing that America can be great, but it’s gonna take a lot of work, work that half of my fellow Americans are unwilling to do.