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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • Yes, we all need to be in agreement about what time it is, but every business has different working hours. Starbucks opens before Staples for a good reason. And Starbucks has a later close time in the summer because there’s more demand later if the sun is still up. If we all change all clocks one way or the other, Starbucks keeps the same schedule relative to the sun and what other people are doing. They don’t strictly stick to the same open and close times if we decided to move the clocks by 6 hours, so there’s no reason to believe that they would if it only moved 1 hour.


  • I guess I just don’t see the point of doing it that way. You’re not wrong, but we’re already on DST so much more, so it’s less disruptive to just keep that in place here. What we call the time is arbitrary, even if it wasn’t always that way. I’d rather just go with DST year round than get stuck bickering over whether standard is the better choice and then pass nothing and keep this dumbass system of changing the clocks in November and March every year, fucking up sleep schedules and causing more car crashes and having confusing computer anomalies because our clocks change but theirs don’t.




  • I think that people are getting sick of fake bullshit artists like Jeffries. I’m optimistic that given a choice between a squeaky clean, media-trained establishment dem and a blue collar, bearded, confident guy preaching the blunt truth about how we’re all getting fucked by the oligarchs, most people pick the latter.

    As the boomers die, the only people left will be the people who have seen only the failures of capitalism and none of the successes. In just the past 20 years, what wins can we point to? Because I can point out the 08 housing crisis recession, minimum wage stagnation, Citizens United in 2010, market monopolization, the European sovereign debt crisis, refusal to lockdown during COVID because of how it would affect the economy, the inflation and supply chain results of mishandling COVID (not to mention the absurd death toll), the current and future results of attacking Iran, and the imminent crash when the AI bubble pops while so much of the market “diversity” is attached to tech companies accruing insane debt for something yet to be proven profitable.

    This shit just ain’t working, and I think that all it takes is a charismatic person pointing that out and then saying “here’s my solution for that…” and they win. Stop smiling. Be pissed. “They’re fucking us. Let me fight them for you. I’m tired of writing to Senators who autogenerate bullshit responses, I’m ready to be the Senator that fixes this shit. Let me represent how pissed off you are at this system that’s fucking the people of our state.”


  • Yeah, it’s far more likely that he wanted a cool tattoo, went to a tattoo place, saw a cool skull, and said “yeah, that one” without knowing that there was lore behind it. And he had it removed. People are allowed to not know everything, people are allowed to make mistakes, and I applaud people who admit their mistakes and seek to correct them.

    Platner had a ton of baggage, some more warranted than others. This one was a nothing burger. But he’s dropped out for a maybe credible real problem, so we let that play out while looking for somebody else to run for Senate. It can’t be that hard to find somebody with a similar message and less baggage. Just somebody who will fight this class war for us, who can reach conservatives with that message, and who hasn’t done any raping. Is that such a high bar?


  • We’re in DST twice as much as we’re in standard time. Keeping DST year round is the option most adherent to “change your schedule, not the clock”. Adjusting winter hours for things is just as viable as adjusting summer hours is, so I’m not understanding why everybody insists on standard time year round and then says that it doesn’t matter what the clock says because you can just change behaviors. Like yeah, we’re saying the same thing, but we barely experience standard time so why would that be the one we pick? There’s less to change if we pick DST.











  • We didn’t give tens of millions of people medical coverage; we forced tens of millions of people to buy medical insurance or else pay a tax penalty. I’m glad that it was at a discounted rate, but given the choice between paying for nothing or paying for shitty insurance, the decision was easy, but a lot of people really struggled to make ends meet as a result and it shouldn’t have put additional strain on those families.

    The Biden moments were also good but ultimately half measures. Railroads should’ve been nationalized, cannabis should’ve been legalized, and student loans and absurdly priced tuitions should’ve been massively reformed.

    I’m glad to have seen something that wasn’t just more horror on those topics, but they’re a far cry from what The New Deal did for people.