Just here for the facts

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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • It’s not the same (obviously) but it depends.

    If I buy a bag of jelly belly candy, I will eat the whole bag until I have a stomach ache, and then eat until the bag is empty. So I buy smaller amounts.

    But other sugary snacks? I went cold turkey and cut out all sugar and it was all I could focus on, I craved sugar to the point of being miserable. I bought a bag of chocolates, told myself I could have one a day (like a mini snickers) - what happened will shock!

    I ate one a day, and sometimes not even that. Just knowing it was there as an option took away the obsession and I ate overall a lot healthier.

    So, yeah, I could do sugar in moderation with chocolate, but not with those tiny jelly beans.

    Whatever your addiction is, only you know if you can really do moderation or not.

    I know of other people that kept a pack of smokes or a pint of whiskey in the back of a cabinet. Knowing it’s there is enough, and they just keep putting off partaking until suddenly they realize it’s been a year or more and they haven’t thought about it in ages.








  • Then you’ve got Bill Maher meeting him in person and then dick-riding him on his show talking about how sane, charming, self-deprecating, and how he has a sense of humor afterall, and listens to criticism calmly.

    Then Maher gets offended when a guest says ‘the president played you’

    I mean, jfc, Maher is in the entertainment industry how has he never met a charming backstabber before?

    I just read that DOGE literally manhandled and dragged a career Social Security worker out of the offices because he wouldn’t let let put alive people on the dead people list to cut off their benefits.

    Sane/Insane - the work they are doing is crazy, illegal, immoral, unethical - we need more Jasmine Crockett type people loudly calling this out.

    We need people with her visibility and charisma out-shouting Margie with actual truths instead of made up bullshit.

    At this point the truths are more wacky than the hacky shit being made up about space lasers and weather control.









  • While I agree public transport would be better in most places. And wholeheartedly believe Elon is not the solution and is instead actively harming untold millions directly and indirectly…

    I can’t help but be reminded of a conversation I had with my Dad years ago. He thought Tesla’s time frame of having charging stations across the US within 5 years to support cross country driving was impossible. And that Tesla would go under and the other car makers would ignore EV. I believed it would happen, that pure EVs would become normal, all of the car companies woyld make them, and be easier to charge. We agreed to disagree.

    Now, there are EV F150 pickup trucks and a ton more charging stations. I thought there would be more hybrids first because oil is profitable. And the Prius was gaining a little foothold.

    My point is that there has been a huge shift away from depending totally on gas based cars in a relatively short period of time. And small groups of people can make a positive difference. In this case Elon was the face of this change at it’s height.

    My city has electric buses now, in the South. People finally started believing EVs could be viable.

    However… helping EVs by encouraging the EV idea isn’t going to be what Elon will be remembered for - it’ll all the hubris,> damage, and needless death.

    Unless we lose our country and history is rewritten.

    I really wish he’d just stuck to talking up Tesla instead of becoming a badly written Bond Villain.