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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • It’s like no law is upholded unless you have lawyers.

    That’s the entire idea of what has been lobbied and constructed over generations. The wealthy have access to infinite appeals, have their crimes categorized as “white collar” so they might do a few years for stealing millions or billions if they happen to suffer the miscarriage of justice actually finding them guilty, while port saps stealing corn nuts from the grocer get far longer sentences. The system is working for exactly whom wrote it’s laws, no strange coincidence historically in any global setting.

    Reading about the consternation in the US about what would happen had trump been given a sentence after having been found guilty during the run-up to the election was a good primer on how warped things are. Many could only express concern for how Trump’s life should be able to go on as normal regardless of a “justice” system if guilty and elected. The simple answer, long forgotten since kindergarten, is that there have to be consequences for actions. It’s been laid incredibly bare there no longer are. The US either starts to take them back ala South Koreas’s new administration or fully embrace failed, corrupt state membership.




  • That’s rich. Business leaders who would sell their own mother to the devil for 1/4 of a point increase in their stock price are lecturing someone who holds responsibility for comprehensive cause and effects of the populace for such insane business practices as these leaders force on the public.

    “Whose prosperity” one would wonder. But we all know. It’s theirs. All about them, forever and always to the last one. They are bought, sold and completely corrupted by their single-minded aim of wealth for themselves and their cause no matter what rh consequences to others.

    They are sociopaths, not some “council” as if to imply wisdom or austere judgement.


  • I went to a mariners game while visiting Seattle, bought tickets through stubhub. Oh goodie have to claim ticks on ticketmaster. Don’t want their fucking app on my phone, ok they’ll just email off right? No. Have to log in via mobile web, oh not ticketmaster.com of course, silly, you should obviously know to go to ticketmaster account manager and open your tix there. Want to add to your phone’s mobile wallet so you don’t have to do that on the fly at the gate? No problem, just add to iPhone/Google wallet…only you have to connect your Google account to Ticketmaster to do that, fuuuck that. Christ.

    So fucking ghetto.

    Big difference why Google, despite being a monopoly, has been tolerated longer, their shit actually works and has largely improved people’s lives (massive asterices) compared to ticketmaster who in addition to being a fucking gouger, makes seeing good artists harder, makes the process dicking worst than it was back with paper tickets in the 1980s and meanwhile owns a ton of venues.

    Good on the sounders from leaving, TM is always voted among the most hated companies in the US and with good reason.








  • What’s app was cool as shit, until, just like Michael Bolton, something shitty in the world happened.

    I installed it for an upcoming trip with loathing just because I know I may stay in places and not be able to connect with a hotel or host if I don’t use whatsapp. The EU better get their shit together since they were trying to lead on digital privacy…


  • Sorry to be one level down but I open the door with my shoe if there is no paper towel and I have to use hands, because I know someone had fecal matter on their hands and touched the doorknob. My action of the shoe makes it worse but protects me? I also throw paper towels on the floor if they have the can back by the sink in a larger bathroom. If I can “shoot a hoop” or open a can with a foot opener I’ll get it in there but if logistics force me to choose between having fecal matter free hands and the owner having to pay someone to clear up paper towels I’ll do the former. When I worked in restaurants I always dragged towel cans/garbage toward the door for this purpose. How do health inspections (I guess they just never happen) not catch this stuff?