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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Damn straight. In Australia we have massive fires every fucking year. When I was a kid it might have been one or two per decade. I remember large flocks of birds flying overhead in mornings and afternoons - none of that happens now. Insect diversity has fallen. National Parks almost look like graveyards of previously thriving forest, it’s just depressing. In Victoria over half a national park just burnt out because rainfall has been low for 20 years and there just isn’t enough moisture around to stop fires from spreading rapidly. Shit’s fucked, and it’s going to get worse.


  • The point of tipping is to incentivise staff to do a good job. Of course employers saw staff getting extra money and decided they didn’t need to pay as much any more. Tipping has now grown to the point where you are expected to pay extra for just about anything or else the worker doesn’t get paid, which is not only counter-intuitive, it’s just stupid.

    I travelled through Eastern Europe a while ago and got so sick of extra “taxes” added to the price of everything that I just stopped buying stuff. I imagine tip fatigue being pretty similar.









  • Firstly, Russians are inefficient and inept as fuck, Chinese are not.

    Citation needed. The Chinese largely based their armed forces on the Russian model in a somewhat combined effort, so I suspect they’d be just as shit. It will be interesting to see how much of a fight Taiwan gives them.

    On the second point I have no doubt Trump won’t intervene, however I do find it odd that Musk just finished fucking over the budget bill (whatever its name is) that would have helped fund chip manufacturing in the US just for them to simultaneously hand all Taiwanese chip manufacturing to China. It’s almost like they have no game plan…