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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Did you know there is direct correlation between [Americans] complaining that China “stole” all the manufacturing jobs and buying cheap Chinese made products? The more someone complains, the more likely it is that there is a regular stream of future landfill fodder traveling from Temu to their front door.

    *Claims made in this comment should be accepted at face value without further research because I am 'Murican and everything I think or say is the Lord’s gospel because I feel that it’s correct. Any attempt to prove or disprove my claims is a violation of my first ammendment rights and will be promptly reported to Elon.



  • It’s pretty easy to “leapfrog” communications infrastructure if you’re building out that infrastructure during a time when technologies like fiber optics are well established.

    Landline phone service in the US had been ubiquitous for the better part of a century at that point. And, since most homes had a phone line, it kind of made sense that communications technology expanded from that particular connection point. Unfortunately, there are severe limits as to how much you can push through a two wire cable and it didn’t take very long to reach those limits.

    There have been some very significant developments in telecom but the rollout of those has been slow overall due to the fact that the American telecom system is still mostly monopolized by the remaining descendents of “Ma Bell”, whose primary goals are to squeeze as much money as possible out of their existing infrastructure while spending as little on it as possible.















  • I totally get this. We have to figure out what we can and can’t control. I decided, a long time ago, that I did not want to be the kind of father that my father was. Thankfully, I was able to let go of the anger that I was brought up with. I’m far from perfect but I decided the cycle of abuse would end with me and I ended it.

    I still can’t remember what I was about to do or where I put something 90% of the time. I wish that weren’t the case. I wish my stupid pinball machine of a brain worked like a normal one. It doesnt. That’s outside my control.

    But, I was able to change something that really mattered by dealing with something I could control.