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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • some good options already posted:

    the pyramids being built

    the big bang

    to that i’ll add:

    watching a t-rex and seeing what that thing actually looked like and how it hunted (this one is kind of stretching the rules a bit)

    Jesus Christ when he was alive in his prime years. I want to see him turn water into wine. This would answer if he was actually real and if he really did that. (spoiler I believe he did but it would be interesting to see).

    I would love to see the building of Machu Picchu

    This is all assuming that I am able to view without affecting history in any way shape or form and am able to survive the experience (with my sanity intact)






  • I used to try to explain that to people. I would try to explain to them that all the private data is used to adjust how they pay for things adjust how much they pay for things. It can adjust their ability to get a loan or how much they’re going to pay on the loan.

    In very short order, it’s going to affect whether or not they can even get a passport.

    And after a while when I say a while, I mean a number of years. I realized I was just screaming into the wind. They don’t care they don’t want to care. They have no interest in learning and when it comes back and bites them in the ass, they will make an excuse that it was something else that did it and not their own damn data.

    This is a long winded way of saying I gave up. If they’re too dumb to figure it out that’s on them. Fuck ‘em




  • 2 k a month is barely above minimum wage. That’s 24k a year. That’s garbage pay. (I’m answering from the point of view off where someone is earning that money in a job).

    Having someone give you that is a nice chunk of money. But it gives you an idea of what it actually is worth.

    Btw I’m answering as someone in a community of 114,000+ people. We have 4 towns that are shoved together. In this area that money is barely above minimum wage income.






  • basically it is correct in the U.S.

    the line where they stop helping you is low and the line where you can actually make it on your own is above that. so they stop helping you but you have a very difficult time to get to the point where you can actually survive. so you wind up back on social welfare programs (or homeless). the system is broken in the aspect. has been for as long as i’ve been alive (born in the 70’s) .

    they need to use a scale and use that scale to help you move out of the welfare programs. so the more you make the less you get, but it isn’t a hard cut off point. and the program needs to have incentives to help you get training to get a job so you don’t need the help.

    not very many people want to live on social welfare, they want to fend for themselves but the system is broken in a way that traps people.

    as for it being a form of resistance. that i’m not sure what you mean by that. do you mean a form of the people resisting against the government? then no it isn’t a form of resistance.