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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Honestly as someone who grew up on a weird peripheral of SoCal biker culture it would be real easy to misidentify a lot of more obscure Nazi symbols as just biker symbols. Those guys ran with it pretty damned thoroughly.

    Also as to what mean by weird peripheral. My 2x great grandfather was well respected by the Redlands and Berdoo biker community since he let kids who grew up into bikers use his go kart shop for repairs and even builds. My 2x great aunt was well respected and even known by the Hells Angels, same with her son. And I can invoke my 2x Great grandfather’s name around old bastards to instantly break the ice, seriously I’ve gotten more than a few claps on the shoulder by just saying I’m a grandson of old Mr Wilms.



  • We can clone a sheep and even nearly bring species back from extinction via cloning. That is vastly more advanced than just cloning a person, as for the other factors it’s mostly a matter of ethics what with the potential for cloning celebrities for stupid reasons or making a sapient clone just to harvest their organs, which as an aside wasn’t that a Sliders episode?




  • The ability to parse information and disinformation is a skill like any other which requires the wisdom and humility to fully apply. A lot of folks grew up in near complete information bubbles and are incapable of even knowing that there may be a different path, there are legitimately people who think all Democrats are possessed by the literal capital D Devil, how the fuck do you even begin to unravel and parse that without just killing propagandists and preachers?

    I grew up on the edge of that environment and was lucky enough to break free from it all around 2015/2016 since Trump reminded me of those false smiling CPS workers who fucked me over repeatedly trying to put me with my rapist father. But most folks don’t have that type of automatic response to things, hell some suppress it to better fit in for sake of sanity.

    Come at it like you would a cultist be it Scientology, Mormonism, or Seventh day Advenentists. Because that’s effectively what it is since half this shit was being built up as far back as the 60s and most of these poor bastards weren’t even alive at the time.








  • Technology is morally inert, but I thinks it’s moreso that people on average can’t responsibly interact with technology both due to a lack of understanding and it’s secondary effects due to said lack of understanding. While our current issues are due to the is definitely being exasperated by the current economic system and those who largely own it I think a lot of it is inherently an issue with widespread technological integration.

    For example the job market it entirely fucked in part due to online applications and companies who feed on that problem. But the core issue with online applications is that there’s basically no easy way to the flow of applications resulting in a practically unsortable mess in sheer quantity. Meanwhile for in person application submission the control is built in from needing the person to physically show up with a print out.

    IDK this is just something that’s been bouncing around in my head for a bit. That over computerized infrastructure and interconnectivity is actively detrimental at least insofar as ease of use in concerned.