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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • For me, lately, it’s literally been, “Oh shit. It’s 2am. I’ll just finish this chapter quickly.”

    Then, “Fuck, it’s 3am. I forgot about the chapter thing. I basically need to put the book down this instant or I’m a failure as a human. I can not be awake at 4.”

    Finally put it down at 4 and sleep at 4:15. Failure as a human.









  • What is the thing labeled with an “F”?

    In the first panel, it appears to be a laptop. But in the third panel, it shows that he’s closed it, so in the fourth panel, that would mean that the boss is looking at the bottom of the laptop. But that doesn’t look like any laptop that I’ve ever seen.

    Did Henderson attach this paper to the bottom of the laptop?

    Or maybe is it not a laptop? Maybe it’s just a manila folder, and between the 3rd and 4th panels, he opened it up to show the boss the contents of the folder. But then, I guess it could be one of those tablets that can be used like a laptop, and he’s folded the keyboard around.

    Or, does Henderson have multiple things labeled with “F”?

    We may never know what the F this is.



  • Although I don’t agree with his politics at all, I remember learning about this concept from Ron Paul, of all people. He was being interviewed, and the interviewer said, “You vote ‘no’ on every spending bill, but then inside the spending bill, you have made all sorts of earmarks,” implying that this made Paul a hypocrite.

    But Ron Paul said, “It’s my job to make earmarks for my constituents.”

    That’s when I realized that there are two things in play, “The world as it is now,” and “The world as in my ideals.” Ron Paul’s ideal world had virtually no government spending (again, I disagree with his concept), but the world that he lived in required him to spend the government’s money on his constituents.

    It’s for this same reason that I feel like fighting against gerrymandering in America, locally, if the gerrymandering would benefit you, is a losing proposition right now.

    As much as we don’t like it, it’s currently legal to gerrymander for a wide variety of reasons, so the good politicians will be trying to make gerrymandering, as a whole, illegal, while making sure to gerrymander as much as is legally allowed at the same time. It’s not hypocritical. It’s just that we live in that world. If people complain, you just say, “Look, here’s the bill/amendment that I support that makes gerrymandering completely illegal. Those are the laws I want in place. What I’m doing right now is doing what my constituents think is best for them. If you don’t like it, then make sure my bill/amendment passes.”










  • Uhhh… Having a baby is one of the most selfish things a person can do. They’re choosing not to foster or adopt. They’re doing the exact worst thing they can do for the environment.

    And why are they doing it? Because they like kids, or because they want a family, or because they want someone to take care of them when they’re old. All selfish reasons.