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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Climate change and the housing crisis means both the cost of replacing a home AND the likelihood of needing to is going up. They may not be on the brink of going under, but may be trying to avoid getting into that position.

    It is an enormous problem. When a property becomes un-insurable it loses value. When that happens to a TON of property it’ll have massive knock ons. Something like 1/3rd of all assets in the US are commercial realestate. This next adjustment will not be pretty, and the real irony is a ton of people who got priced out of home ownership in the first place are going to suffer no matter what.



  • That and post-scarcity doesn’t mean “zero scarcity”. Like if someone wanted to create a picard funkpop the size of a planet, I don’t think they’d be allowed the resource budget.

    It’s like how it doesn’t matter where you live, if you want to buy on the silk road, you need bitcoin. Presumably even the federation can’t just make latinum whenever they please, or we wouldn’t see them haggle with it. Although, it would be fun to see that they could and just take the responsibility of not crashing non-federation cultures entire economies very seriously, either out of respect or treaty.

    Damnit, I want a LD episode where the crew is frustrated and desperately wants to just “buy” their problem away but can’t because an economist at command says it’ll mean they have to rescue all these non-federation colonies that are currently self sufficient. Come to think of it it’s right there with the “you break it you own it” concept of the prime directive.



  • I dated a vegetarian, and I love to cook. It was wild how little it took to break through the “meatless” thing. We didn’t last but I kept the skillset, and eat vegetarian at least a few nights of the week.

    I love being able to taste things at every stage without worry about food safety. Like if I don’t think a sauce is quite right, I can always try a bit. Once you kind of break through, meat freaks you out a bit… and I still eat meat!

    Edit: I’ll also add: giving up cheese and eggs would be hard as hell though… I get where that would be more exciting than meat.






  • I did really like this, but it is a bit generic.

    The audio book is fantastically done and it’s written well enough. Characters are fleshed out and interesting, the universe makes sense.

    Again: I really enjoyed it I just don’t think it really put anything new on the table.

    Edit: wanted expand on both the good and bad, no spoilers.

    The plot is nifty enough but you could guess it from start to finish with like 2 cues (and you get those pretty early). There’s really nothing challenging there we haven’t seen before.

    That being it said plays out well. The “big” plot elements you’ll see coming but the little things and character reactions are why I say it’s well written. I may have seen this movie a bunch but I liked watching these characters do it.



  • Lol, a bit late but a certain degree yes. Like as a libertarian Ill never be able to square taking money from someone’s paycheck in NYC for subsidizing internet in Montana.

    But… No one actually cares about that… Eve libertarians, because it’s peanuts next to a shitty new f-30whatever that will ever fly.

    It’s by no mean perfect, and has been massively corrupted by whatever the hell we have going on right now in the US. But the principle of “if it doesn’t affect anyone, stop talking to me” is a good one, and at least it’s a stated one.

    So yeah, I do kinda think people should have the right NOT to make cakes for gay weddings. Sure. Do I care when they’re forced to? Ehhhhh. You were going to be out of business soon because you’re a godamn asshole sooooo not really no I don’t care lol.

    So no, the gov should subsidize wifi, but they also already subsidize all sorts of shit, so youre damn right you have to service those folks. I guess that’s the thing, libertarianism neccesaties egalitarianism, and nothing else does.


  • I’m a sane libertarian (I promise some of us do exisit). People absolutely have a right to determine what goes in to their body, but fluoride is such a weird hill to die on. In particular when fortified grains are a mandate of the same ilk. All of this has a history, and shocker, it was always steeped in the same “but our culture” wrapping…

    Edit: tl;Dr if you don’t want to watch the video: and pellagra was proven to be one of those diseases that is zero problem… So long as your diet doesn’t suck. The science had push back because it upset the economics. We’re fighting the same battles now we were then.

    Edit2: yes. I’m a libertarian, because as much as they’re freaking nuts it still stems from a disagreement of a stated principle. A principle which had them back a ton of LGBTQ rights before anyone else. I’m voting Biden in 2024, strictly because I’d like to vote in 2028, but godamn this is how 2016 happened.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=reYKBgdrZsM&pp=ygUWUGVsbGFncmEgZXh0cmEgaGlzdG90eQ%3D%3D