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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • It’s been my experience throughout the years.
    I haven’t personally heard “I have nothing to hide”
    since Huawei phones started to become banned in my country.

    The moment they became popular they went from
    “I’ve got nothing to hide” to “I’ve got nothing to hide, but this is different. Huawei is subject to the Chinese State.
    Those other phones are made by our allies. We may have found time after time again that all phones of all our politicians have been tapped by the US and it’s true that no matter how hard our best security experts searched for listening bugs in these devices, they found diddly squat, but if you own one of those Chinese phones and think you’re not being listened to, than you’re being naive. Naive naive, !be scared!, naive national security naive.”.




  • The US response (media/police/even some of the public) to anything in protest is the most authoritarian response I have ever seen every single time, but I guess that’s understandable when you’re busy fully supporting a genocide and about half a dozen regime changes attempts per year.

    “This is absolutely unacceptable and understandably scared travelers,” said US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy[1:2]. The airports quickly shut down affected systems and searched aircraft out of caution, though no security threats were found[1:3].

    Does the computer in your living room get hacked? Check for explosives your basement!
    And while we’re at it…

    The hack targeted cloud-based audio and display systems through a software provider[3]. “Nobody informed us what was going on, there was no crisis response. Everyone was just really confused,” one Kelowna passenger told CNN[1:4].

    bring in the guns!
    Let’s have an army of ICE goons walk in next time and have them shoot random passengers
    who may look like they could be part of the terrorist hackers!


  • I had three relationships in grade school and currently one online LDR.
    I had another LDR, but she cheated on me, wanted me back after her failed marriage, but I declined.

    My experience was that in high school,
    I could not even have a chat with a girl
    without being thrown accusations or gossip.
    And in college all the young women seemed to be taken.

    That’s still the case in the online world but you can at least chat a bit with them once in a while.



  • Same here during high school and college.
    The issues that I remember were:

    1. Having a great time chatting to women/girls only to find out they were in a relationship.
    2. Going to lively party and there’s 50 guys and 10 women of which 9 are girlfriends and the last one is surrounded.
    3. Going to a lively party and noticing a girl/women with an attitude of “Huh, she looks okay, I wonder what she’s like. Maybe she’s great, maybe she’s not, let’s find out.” So I approach her with “Hi my name is Folaht, what’s…?” and immediately get replied “My name is ‘Get the hell away from me RIGHT NOW!’” and then walk off with “Sheesh, I just wanted to go to know someone.” and hear from behind me “No you don’t! You just wanted to GET INTO MY PANTS, WRAGH!!”. As poor as replies can be at dating sites, it’s at least never this bad.
    4. Going to a lively party and noticing a girl/women with an attitude of “Huh, she looks okay, I wonder what she’s like. Maybe she’s great, maybe she’s not, let’s find out.” So I approach her with “Hi my name is Folaht, what’s…?” and then a group frat guys noticing and going “OOHHHH… WOLF WHISTLE AWOOOO!!! OW OW OW!!!”.

    And these issues were not just present, they were the norm.
    Every action I did to just start a conversation was “You trying score” by “getting into her pants”
    and every opportunity I think I have had, I ran away from because I felt it went way too quick
    and I didn’t want to say ‘yes’ to things I might later backtrack and disappoint the person with,
    just because I didn’t want to hurt that person’s feelings at that time.



  • As much as that would make sense considering the pace of previous years, I completely disagree with you that there will be another 4 years of relative calm with a Democrat President.

    The US economy is heading towards a depression this year and a the only Roosevelt in sight is Zohran Mamdani who has little chance to win. The next Democrat, barring a fascist takeover, will likely be yet another liberal, followed by a Republican. So too little, too late.


  • US still has an abundance of coal. Together with the weak monarchic but oil rich Saudi Arabia, the oil rich, but coal poor Soviet Union collapsed. Now there are two alternatives, China’s weaker, but socialist coal industry and the much much much stronger solar photovoltaic industry completely dominated by China again.
    It’s both of these developments that are causing the situation to be normal instead of the weird events of 1989-1992 and 2008.