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Cake day: July 2nd, 2025

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  • Anything that lives creates things that are toxic to itself. It’s a waste product. Or shit.

    The problem isn’t our existing, not even just the scale at which we do, but the methods we choose to use to do it. I’m pretty sure we could have 8 billion people sustainably and comfortably living here, maybe even many more, but we do it by investing in solar and wind, maybe nuclear, maybe whatever isn’t burning coal and gas. And we, as a society, are simply choosing not to.

    Besides, life will go on for a while without us, at least a few billion years probably. Even if some of us survive, I wonder what the trajectory is for human intelligence during a mass extinction event. Will we still be interested in the stars? Or maybe a more good natured intelligence evolves here from like octopuses or something and decides to look up. It’d be cool if a descendent of Earth could survive the Sun dying, anyway


  • Lol I never really though of it like that. That is almost morbid, isn’t it?

    That system is more commonly used at airports throughout the US, and I believe it’s widespread internationally, too. Why the fuck don’t we just have frequently running trains that have a stop at airports? I know my local airport technically has a bus service, but they only move directly between there and downtown (an hour away) and only during specific times of day.



  • One just started coming through my neighborhood like 2 weeks ago, and there’s a kid a few houses down who seems to always be ready to run out and stop the truck. Takes easily 10+ minutes for the music to fade out. Like, I hate to be a grumpy old man, but that music drives me fucking nuts! I’m on the verge of trying to beat the kid to the truck just so I can bribe the guy to drive away as fast as possible


  • Don’t forget, Trump’s full of shit. He was talking positively about Ukraine right before the shipments stopped in the first place. As far as I remember Hegseth got blamed for the stoppage, but he’s still the Secretary of Defense, sooo… don’t assume anything Trump says will happen until actual moves are made. And as far as I can tell, zero moves to restart shipments have actually happened.