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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Yeah, fairness doctrine is shit. I would prefer a law where when a media source deliberately spreads misinformation, the must provide equal time and visibility for an approved retraction.

    So when fox had all those assholes come on and talk about how migrants were eating all the cats and dogs, based on one the Twitter post recounting the story of a friends daughter’s friend’s temporarily missing cat, they should have had to run equal time segments on the same channels and local stations admitting that they failed a basic journalistic test to question the validity of that info, and that after further investigation it appears to be blatantly false.






  • Let’s not make the inevitable mistake of assuming what was an essential skill for one generation is going to matter fuck all for most of the next generation.

    Old people still think it’s outageous if you can write a check, read an analog clock, read/write cursive… All things that most millennials might “need” to do less than once a year.



  • Anyone offended by history needs to reflect on their priorities and identity.

    I’m not offended that white people claimed this land at the point of a sword, and even worse, in the embrace of a smallpox blanket. Horrified, yes, but not offended. I’m not offended that the backbone of the economy for a hundred years was built on the backs of stolen people on stolen land.

    I’m not offended by history.

    What I am offended by is the present. I’m offended that people who have been oppressed and started out life with less than nothing have been told by the privileged elite to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps like the rest of us did”. That’s fucking vile. I’m offended that we keep trying to whitewash confederate slave owning generals, instead of teaching who they really were, and what they really killed for, and ordered other people to die for. Be offended about what we are doing now, and use history as the reason why we should change it.


  • Yeah. Calling bullshit on this.

    I’m the 2nd oldest of 7 kids. That house was never clean. We had all kinds of pets. I would play in the woods, make mud pies, catch weird bugs, eat wild berries and onion grass. I pretty much had the “go outside and play in the dirt to build character” childhood. I’ve got a couple of food allergies and pet dander allergies. My oldest sibling has an auto-immune issue, the ones just after me are pretty healthy, just some minor lactose intolerance, and the two youngest (from my step dad) have a bunch of weird allergies, like potatoes and milk.

    It’s a genetic roll of the dice. The reason why allergies seem more common is because more kids are able to survive anaphylaxis at a young age thanks to modern medicine and quick emergency response times… Like I went through when I spontaneosly developed a severe fish allergy at 4 years old.