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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Oh are we already starting with the “democrats are just as bad, so dont vote in protest” memes again?

    Get the fuck out of here. This bullshit is why our country is what it is right now. Millions of people who voted Dem chose to not vote, and millions more repuplican voter did vote because of the election fraud bs pushing them to ‘outvote’ the dems.

    You wanna have a discussion about the problems with both sides? Save it for after the fascists are out of our streets, and back in the rat holes they belong in.




  • I genuinely try so hard. I love cooking, and im the main chef of the family. Really thought id turn it into a career at one point.

    The bottom line for everyone is money. Its just unsustainable for most people to prepare food. The price of everything fresh has doubled or tripled, while pre packaged garbage is the same price (or maybe a few cents more than it used to be). My household just got out of qualifying for poverty assistance stuff, we make about 60 a year. I cannot fathom being where i was when i was 18 but in todays america.

    I genuinely feel so awful for the younger generation. The min wage federal is the same dogshit its always been. I live in a state that has 15$ min but too little too late, its not enough today. I cant imagine these kids are eating better than i was their age. In fact im willing to bet they eat worse in general than i did.

    It feels like were watching the fall of america happen in real time. Food is just one of the many many symptoms of a waning empire.



  • The pay wall is actually insane! I bought my lifetime license back when it was 10ish dollars. But I just went to try to get the license for wife, ~45 dollars?!

    Plus I do believe I remember being able to do more in the unpaid version back when I had it, now my wife can’t change clock, show weather, change icons etc etc without paying.

    Their last update was the “artistic” update, with new wallpapers “designed by real artists just for us”. The wallpapers are very sus (ai) in my eyes. Not much has happened on the update front new feature wise for quite a while, just lots of customization.

    I genuinely love this launcher, and I would find it hard to go back, but it is sad to see it go the way I see it going.


  • Once life in the USA becomes uncomfortable for the majority of people (ie little to no access to food, water, electricity) thats when open war will start in the streets. Until then, there will just continue to be highly motivated agitators that pop up here and there, like assassination attempts and the like. They’ll become more and more common until the tipping point is reached, when the elite decide its time to completely withdraw from the rest of the country and take the food/water and electricity with them. If the USA doesn’t have elections in 2028, then id bet that the situation will be ripe for it by 2030



  • Really? Because I predict that millions of Americans wont be voting Democrat or at all because of the utter incompetence of the Dems. Not to mention the immediate bending over for the GOP after winning 3(?) Elections, reopening the govt in exchange for a promise, when the right was in the worst position it has been in decades and just when they were really feeling the heat.

    Plus, we all want the democrats to be the ones to make reasonable laws we can all get behind but they dont do that. Like the “high capacity” magazine bans. In a time where more leftists are arming themselves than ever before, nobody wants that. They keep warning of a fascist takeover while simultaneously disarming citizens. Or the fact they voted to fund the military to the tune of $1 trillion. Or the democrats that voted with Republicans against youth trans care. Or their response to most republican shenanigans, a strongly worded letter.

    Democrats have been doing nothing but fumbling the easiest victories they could ever have over and over again. Idk how anyone can expect democrats to win anything with this old guard establishment demo still in power.

    Say what you will about the GOP, and I hate what their doing as well. But at the end of the day they get their shit done. For better or worse, at least they dont just sit on their power. I wish I could say the same about the dems


  • Ive never really saw it like that. I felt it was more a point about “intelligence” breeding uncertainty and using logic to find the “perfect time”. Worlds on fire? We wait. Weird guys is pres? We wait. Were not financially stable? We wait. And then they waited until it was too late. Meanwhile “less intelligent” people, although I think just more irresponsible, are banging out a bakers dozen per couple at a rate that the waiters can’t possibly hope to come close too. That combined with societal problems like lack of education, corporation looting of our country, cuts to programs that care for people and children, especially making sure kids go to school and dont get left behind. Its all gone, and the few places you can find it are also the places who look at the world and decide to wait, resulting in worst birth rates.

    All this combining to make a situation where breeding with reckless abandon is rewarded by society, because the “intelligent” humans are so seldom having kids, that theyre outnumbered 13 to 1 at least. Thus the world goes about how you’d expect.

    The thing I dont like is the weight of intelligence in this movie. Yeah its a main theme, but there’s so much nuance. Fish are great at swimming, but can’t climb a tree. My boy that had 13 kids iirc was a football star in his school, probly knows how to fix things, cars plumb8ng electrical etc etc. Or has some other skill that he excels in. I dont like that humans that dont know calculus and trig are stupid. Smart couple probly can’t fix their stove, probly get take advantage of by the “stupid” at the car dealer. We’ll whos stupid know.

    I think there’s more nuance to this film than meets the eye, but because media literacy is at an all time low, people only see it as haha stupid people (the people im already against are the stupid) and they destroy society. I dont think thats all this movie is

    Just my two cents, sry for the wall of text.


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    Having a kid is the most selfish thing one can do with their life. You’re saying “I like myself and my partner so much and think we’re so good for the world that im going to make a mini copy of me and my partner, because the world needs more of us”

    Can’t force you to have kids, the kids aren’t asking to be conceived or born. Only person making that decision is you and its a selfish one.

    I say this as a father of two girls








  • Just being supportive like we all are going through this together right? Also those transfems lived as a man at one point in their lives, probly heard a lot of lessons about “being a man”, may even have had a father that imparted the basic man skills. Just like transfems will listen to advice from women or transmasc, its all valid and helpful. For a group so prone to self deletes and just general loneliness and depression, extreme anxiety, and not being able to connect with people or their community depending on if theyre out or how deep in the closet they are, I feel strongly that this post just perpetuates that we are different and therefore dont belong in the same space. The transfems that see this and internalize it are now more likely to not engage with the rest of the community because their advice isn’t valued, their presence isn’t necessary, and their opinion invalidated because they made the decision to transition.

    There’s already enough culture war bulls bullshit and real world threats of violence in the trans community and it doesn’t need to be furthered by a some culture war bull inside of the community.

    And to every transfem (transmasc too!) You matter, your opinion matters, just because you no longer live that life does not mean you dont know anything about it. You belong in this space as much as anyone and people who react like this to someone just trying to be helpful have their own hangups.

    Personally, I would welcome transmasc advice anyway because they probly know how to do makeup and I could use help. I mean, doesn’t that knowledge still apply? Like my knowledge of shaving, repair work (cars and such) beard maintenance, weightlifting, interacting with cis men etc etc?