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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • During the active phase of their genocide, Israel got big mad at DWB. You may remember the reports. Doctors who had just come from places like Syria saw an unusual number of small children with single gunshot wounds to the head and torso.

    So doctors with experience in war, experience treating ‘collateral damage’, were saying that you’d expect more shrapnel wounds, or for bullet wounds to be randomly distributed on the bodies of non-targeted wounded children.

    Zionists denounced this reporting as antisemitic “blood libel”. Noting the long history of Jews being accused of child-murder. Which might be a good point if these accusations were not evidence based observations from reliable and respectable people. Or if IDF soldiers and Israeli colonists were not already credibly implicated in numerous war crimes, and crimes against humanity.


  • The only thing holding back a renewable revolution is politics.

    Solar cells are cheap, and once installed, harvest free energy for decades with little maintenance. Battery technology is ready for solar on the grid too. Batteries based on sodium are available now. But even the lithium batteries are fantastic. Sure, batteries mean resource extraction and everything that comes with that, but what we extract is being made into durable goods that can be used over and over for decades, then recycled. Fossil fuels are perpetual resource extraction because the product is burned and destroyed.

    One day, the number one source of lithium batteries will be old lithium batteries. This is already true with lead-acid car batteries.

    Technology Connections Youtube channel just released a video that is the source for my comments. Bonus, the heat-pump guy get’s ‘mad as hell’ toward the end.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM


  • As someone who grew up rural, it’s amazing how many people don’t recognize danger in animals. Worse still, they often think in mystical terms like “it can sense I’m a good person”, or the animal’s acceptance of you is some kind of approval. This is a trope in all kinds of media.

    I once saw a tourist approach a small herd of buffalo to get a picture. Anyone who’s spent time on the same side of the fence as a bull knows this is insanity. (he was OK, but Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon buffalo will subtract a few from the census every year)

    Some of the most terrifying animals aren’t even big. I knew a banty rooster known to have killed two venomous snakes and and a hawk. I’ve also seen him in hot pursuit of a grown men running for their lives. A house-cat in a panic can send you to the hospital.






  • What do you call a fly with legs without wings? A walk.

    Two men are lost in the desert weak from thirst and starvation. One of them spots something and says Hey man, there is a bacon tree over there! The second man says “no such a thing as a bacon tree, that’s just a mirage”, but the first is already running toward the tree. Just then, a hidden soldier under the tree shoots the first man with a machine gun. As he lay dying, he shouts to warn his friend: “it’s not a bacon tree, it’s a ham bush”.





  • The truth is that 10+ yo computer built with an eye to gaming is adequate and satisfactory for 85% of what you’d use a computer for. So long as you’ve done basic (and cheap) upgrades like SSD/M.2. Don’t get mad at me, but I picked up a RAM kit over the summer because it was so affordable. (DDR4)

    But I’m not going to roll the hardware enthusiasts that act as early adopters for bleeding edge tech that I can afford used or surplus five years later. And they’re exactly the people getting railed the hardest by the component shortages. So it seems like a time for computer-people solidarity.








  • In so many ways ‘Donald Trump’ is a victory of liberalism. Arrogance and incompetence flourish in societies where the beneficiaries of great wealth and power are two or three generations removed from the people who were clever enough to steal it in the first place.

    And America has been such a place of abundance for the highborn for so long. Their blatant criminality is tolerated and normal. Is it any wonder that people who’ve never faced meaningful consequences have trouble with making big decisions?

    I think it’s interesting to contrast Germany’s fall into Fascism coming from humiliating loss and economic ruin, to America’s slide from a position of global dominance and unimaginable wealth. Maybe second time as farce?