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Cake day: May 30th, 2024

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  • Well, yeah, he and the guy from Live (the music band) both had cameos in Fight Club. also Meatloaf. also Brad Pitt is college pals with Sheryl Crow. I’m sure I could notice more, but I’m not interested in deep diving shit that reminds me of pretty mediocre times from High School, and largely falls flat as my adult life faced FAR more bullshit than disaffected 20 year old’s in the 90’s could have ever dared dream, my 20’s was defined by terror attacks, mass war, economic meltdown and the slow burn of manufactured consent pulling us all the way into fascism.





  • A lot of us have been expecting it for decades. Remember when Trump was still a joke candidate on the primary and he was doing an interview and a ‘‘serious’’ reporter interviewed him and asked about his racist comments towards a sitting US Judge who was born and raised in the US, but he had a Spanish name! So Trump was calling him a ‘‘mexican’’ and the reporter told him to tone down the racism and say ‘‘Hispanic’’ instead. He, real time, softened trumps message, that was ENTIRELY RACIST, to sound arguably not racist if you squint and pretend.

    Trump was never the problem, American style white supremacy has always been the problem. No, you aren’t free from racism because you call the people you are ethnicity clensing the correct term publicly.


  • Olympics testing sex means they will be testing women, and never men, it means they’ll come up with a test that requires different representatives of different competing nations to agree a woman doesn’t technically qualify as a woman despite her fully functioning uterus, and again they’ll be invasive and humiliating and poor countries will have twice or more disqualified athletes, they will go after women of color twice as hard, and the more extreme countries they send these women back to live in will treat these women horrifyingly bad.




  • There’s no evidence it’s generic at all. It’s very difficult to access ‘intelligence’ or make usable data about intelligence. You really can’t test how intelligent people are, most of what we can test with repeatable results is skills, which famously can be improved over time reliably. To the point there’s time estimates on how long it takes to be a skilled person in one ability or another. I work with special needs kids, and let me tell you, you learn real quick working with these kids that there’s close to zero differences between them and their same age peers. People are very similar, and even people you’d consider rather foolish on a lot of metrics interacting with them, can be quite brilliant at what they are interested in and skilled in.