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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • The rural population isn’t the issue, it’s suburbia which is where the majority of the US population lives.

    It’s not dense enough for public transportation to be viable and it’s zoned in a way that makes pedestrian traffic a non starter.

    Suburbia causes a lot of problems. I understand why it exists - owning a house with a yard is nice. I personally wouldn’t want to give that up to live in an urban environment if I didn’t have to



  • You know, there was a girl I was chatting with once. She suggests we get lunch, then calls it off last minute.

    A few days later she complains about some guy she likes who stood her up for lunch that lives near me.

    Then she just ghosted me.

    I’ve always wondered if she meant me and the whole thing was her miscommunicating and then trying to be coy and indirect.













  • Apparently the plan was to disband the local department and merge it into the department of a neighboring area, then split the cost in an effort to lower the overall operating costs of police services in the area.

    The other city they were going to do this with declined the deal and so this town had to keep their local force in tact.

    Upon hearing that the city they worked for was trying to eliminate their jobs, a bunch quit.


  • We have quite a while yet. We spend about 200 billion servicing the debt right now and have around 4.8 trillion in revenue.

    The warning line is having a debt equal to your GDP. The US has a GDP of around 28 trillion but a debt of 34 trillion. So we are past that warning line, but by itself that doesn’t mean anything.

    For other countries it would signal to banks and other countries that it might be a bad idea to loan to them, but the US has a kind of special status in the global economy and this hasn’t slowed down loaning so far.