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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • I wish. They’ll just look to abolish minimum wage entirely. “The free market will enforce a true minimum wage on its own without the need for pesky government interference. If you own your own business and you understand what you’re employees’ labor is worth, then you and you alone should be deciding what to pay your employees. If it’s too low for them to accept, then they will go elsewhere, and somebody who is willing to work for you at that wage will fill the job.”

    They will proclaim that your protections are actually chains, and 1/3 of the country will cheer for the “chains” to be removed. Freedom! America! Yay fascism!


  • I’m interested to see how Wolverine is. And there’s supposed to be a 2D Castlevania game coming soon that’s looking good. I’m kinda interested in the Metal Gear collection, but I doubt I’ll pay full price for any of these. Everybody seems excited about 007 and GTA6 but idk how much I’ll care about those.

    I usually discover games well after everybody has moved on from them. I don’t really bother keeping up with gaming news anymore. I just get stuff on sale and enjoy them later. A lot of bugs are usually fixed by then too. I’m just now starting Star Wars Outlaws and it’s fine. Only a couple of minor bugs so far, and it’s fun enough I guess.




  • Yeah, just a little /s

    Idk anything about Alabama, so excuse my ignorance if this is blissfully naive, but it would be amazing if voter turnout were so high that district 6 (between Birmingham and Montgomery) could unexpectedly flip. I would love for the gerrymandering to be by such razor-thin margins that they lose seats in some of these states rather than gaining them. This was my only worry about the Virginia redistricting. Super disappointing to not see much of a fight back when courts overruled the will of the voters, but at least it’s safe I guess. I would’ve loved to have a rep who at least pretends to care about my community.



  • Cherry, apple, blueberry, whatever fruit she likes you can probably find a good recipe for a pie that features it. Does she go nuts for pumpkin spice lattes? Pumpkin pie. Insists on keeping bananas in the house? Banana cream pie. Or maybe she just loves oreos and you can get a store bought oreo pie. Just make it clear that you know her and have been paying attention to what she likes and she’ll enjoy what you make/buy for her.




  • You can absolutely buy smaller capacity magazines for a .22 pistol.

    Yes, gun maintenance is a thing. And yes, you can’t replace the banned parts. I agree that this ban isn’t gonna do anything to change gun violence, but that’s because it doesn’t do much of anything at all. So what if you can’t replace your foregrip or collapsible stock? You still have the gun itself. The only thing this legislation really changes is that people who don’t already have these things won’t get them, and 20-40 round magazines will phase out as they break and can’t be replaced.

    You’re partially right that you can’t sell what you have to buy something else. Just remove these aftermarket parts first. The gun itself seems to still be fully legal.


  • What you’re proposing just makes too much sense. But also, if I understood correctly, nothing is being taken away from you. It looks like this would just ban the ability to buy, sell, transfer, and manufacture specific stuff like foregrips, collapsible stocks, and magazines with a capacity higher than 15. What you already have is yours.

    I’d like to see gun registration and insurance the way we have for cars. I work with a few gun nuts and it’s fucking ludicrous how many guns they have. One guy has 29. He actively hunts, and he doesn’t just hunt one thing, so I can understand that different tools are built for different jobs and he needs a few to be effective at everything. But realistically he only needs like 5.

    If we actually wanted to do something about mass shootings, we would do reasonable gun control legislation like we’re talking about, but as a supplement to destigmatizing psychological help, making healthcare (including mental healthcare) attainable for all, and ensuring basic needs like food and housing are met. Get that shit done and I’ll concede that America is “great again” now. But I’m only hearing a couple of people in office even pretend to be on board with these very basic ideas.


  • E-bikes seem awesome and I’m not interested in taking away subsidies for them. That having been said, I commute an hour long drive by car each way, so unfortunately a car is essential for me to keep my job. Housing is ludicrously expensive near the power plant I work at, and nothing close to my home pays nearly as well as my job does. I just installed a charger at home and bought a used EV like two days before we started bombing Iran, so I really lucked out on avoiding gas prices. Of course I’d love to subsidize EVs to encourage more people to transition to them, but honestly just doing the math on refueling and maintenance cost differences should be more then enough to sway a lot of people. If you can charge at home and you already need a new car, it doesn’t make sense not to choose a good EV. The tech is finally here for that.

    If I had a use for a bike or small motorcycle, I’d choose an e-bike. Maybe I’ll get one for popping into town and grabbing a burger and a beer or similar outings, but I just don’t think I’d use it more than a few times per year.


  • The rise of gas prices back then was partially Biden’s fault, but let me explain. If he hadn’t gotten shit done to get COVID numbers down, we wouldn’t have been able to go to work and school and bars and theme parks and sports events and whatever else people wanted to take their cars to. Demand was low during COVID, so supply was lowered to keep in line. Then suddenly demand was higher before supply could ramp back up to meet it.

    It was Biden’s fault, because of he quickly solved a bigger problem, unlike this dipshit failing to understand basic shit like the direct, predictable consequences of bombing Iran.




  • This is really the only thing that worries me here in VA. The recent legal gerrymandering is pretty risky when the referendum passed on such razor thin margins. I would love to get a blue rep, but the governor and state Congress are doing enough to get noticed, so that’s probably gonna mobilize the chuds, especially if conservative propaganda focuses on this enough. The fascist will never poll below 30% and probably 40+% of my district is in that 30%. If the choices are a rizzless blue vs a Christian, gun nut red, my area stays red and dumb and poor and only gets worse.

    I’m glad the yes votes won out, but the fight is only just beginning.