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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Back in the 1800s they thought that they’d eventually barely need coal, because coal engines were getting so efficient - but the more efficient coal burning got the more it was deployed across different industries so our coal use actually increased.

    I suspect that’s what’s going to happen to computer code. It’s become extremely cheap so now it’s going to get stuffed into a lot more things.






  • I’d say it’s actually more embarrassing than that.

    2016 he was caught by surprise that black voters in the south preferred the centrist candidate.

    2020 the same thing happened to him and he did absolutely nothing to shore up that weakness. He learned nothing. He even got lucky at the start with the field of centrists splitting the vote, but eventually they sorted their strategy out and beat him.

    Bernie just has the worst goddamn campaign instincts. I remeber hearing his campaign staff were all people who got rejected from the Obama 08 campaign, and instances where his door to door knockers would try to argue with anyone who said they weren’t voting for Bernie.

    Add in that he endorsed Graham Platner, it’s clear he just never had the juice.












  • There are protected wild horses on federal land.

    It’s illegal to hunt them or kill them for meat.

    But the Trump administration has found a loophole: if they capture them and sell them to a foreign entity alive, that foreign entity can legally butcher them.

    It’s darkly funny because those horses are a invasive species that only have federal protections because conservatives like to pretend to be cowboys.