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Cake day: June 6th, 2025

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  • Here’s some waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more plausible alternative explanations:

    1. You didn’t read either the full post nor the group it was in and smarmily listed a bunch of American options.

    2. You intended some kind of sarcastic observation but fumbled it because you are a shit writer.

    Me, I’m leaning toward #2, actually. I’ll give you the benefit of some doubt. But you’re still a shit writer.




  • sigh

    The sound of jackboots marching in lockstep is something people with an ear for them could hear in the '90s already. Trump is an expression of American culture rot—a symptom—not the cause.

    The cause of the USA’s decline dates a lot further back than 2015. It dates back to the Southern Strategy that began when I was only beginning to get out of diapers. And the blame falls squarely on the architects of it, as well as those who sleep-walked through the subsequent decades of obvious rising fascism.



  • Announcer: In the latest news, China has placed one of its television networks under stricter government control, setting up a Party official to monitor its broadcasts for an anti-gove…

    (Frantic whispering from off-camera.)

    Announcer: (to the off-screen voice) What? The USA? CBS? FCC?

    (Continued whispering from off-camera.)

    Announcer: (to camera) In these glorious United States of America, the government has decided that the collection of biased traitors at CBS will be monitored by a special office of the FCC to ensure they do not report negatively about our Great Leader.






  • Yeah, this amazes me everywhere. The Chinese government also wants people to have more children.

    But children are fucking EXPENSIVE. Having just one child, once only school fees are taken into account, is so expensive that most families see a significant drop in their lifestyle from having one. This doesn’t include food, clothing, medical care, etc. Just school fees take middle class people and make them live unskilled labour lifestyles. (You can imagine what it does to unskilled labour…)

    If the Chinese government wants people to have more children, they’re going to have to address that somehow. Like free schooling. Free healthcare. Maybe also fix the education system so that there’s not this perceived need for thousands of hours of expensive cram schools. That kind of thing.

    And then we have the Big Brains of Business sounding the same alarm. All while they do everything in their power to make people poorer and poorer so that even in the west people simply can’t afford to have children. But they want people to have more children.

    This is literally insane to me.







  • My boss tried to get everybody to use LLMbeciles for work. He was taken in by the fakery and set up a commercial OpenAI account.

    I refused to use it. Ever. Like to the point that I never even collected my ID and password.

    Others used it, but it was, as always, a time-waster where it looked like they were making gains at the start, only to get bogged down when important details entered the picture. So I quietly got my work done while others wrestled with AI. Then by the end of six weeks nobody was using it and my boss quietly shut down the account.