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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I know you’re being antagonized, but I object to this statement. I used to read headlines/excepts on Reddit about “so-and-so thinks this and said that!” and then I’d go watch an unedited video of the speech, and I was like, “that’s your takeaway?” It’s always some shit like:

    Interviewer “Do you think if Russia launches nukes, it will impact Medicaid?”

    Interviewee: “I think if there’s nukes in the air, Medicaid will be the least of our concerns.”

    News headline “POLITICAL FIGURE ISN’T CONCERNED ABOUT CUTS TO MEDICAID!”.




  • Try telling that to sports memorabilia collectors though.

    “Look at my hockey jersey!” “Yeah, so? I have the same one.” “Yeah but you’re wasn’t signed by Wayne Gretsky.”

    Or even trading cards, or comics. Or hell, even plain w-shirts with a brand logo on it for $250. People assign arbitrary values to stuff all the time. I don’t understand it at all, but there’s a whole ton of people that just eat that shit up like it’s candy.








  • Minister of Forests Bruce Ralston said at a provincial briefing on Thursday that while most wildfires over the summer months are caused by lightning, the majority of fires that start in September or beyond are caused by people.

    Of course climate change is causing the droughts leading to our roadsides and forests drying up into tinder, but it’s still very much a human issue. I remember back when I smoked 20 years ago I never thought twice about flicking a cigarette out of the car window, and I’m sure there are people that still don’t.




  • We already have decades of free online porn and everyone is fine. Why would we try to limit porn usage online now?

    32 years ago we were passing around 320x240 interlaced jpeg’s on floppy disks downloaded from a 4800baud BBS. You had to be James fucking Bond to view that stuff on the family computer in the living room, or in the back of the computer lab. I remember sitting at the back of lab with some friends watching an image load of a disk and trying to figure out which hole his dick was in. That’s how slow it was.

    Today, you can get streaming 4k videos on your 7 inch computer while you’re sitting at the back of the bus, or the back of class. I’d say accessibility to minors has greatly improved over the past 3 decades. Regulators are (as usual) playing catch-up with technology.