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Cake day: January 5th, 2024

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  • The end of USAID would mean the collapse of American soft power abroad and a decline in American influence. USAID did not always spend money well. It spent billions attempting to reshape Afghanistan in its own image and lost much of it to corruption and foolish nation-building schemes. It paid poppy farmers to grow soybeans instead of heroin-producing plants, paid for security forces who only existed on paper, and spent billions of dollars on roads that did not materialize.

    It would have been amazing to have had a serious Congress of adults go through our spending line by line and eliminate wasteful and imperialistic spending. America has been pissing billions away on interfering in foreign countries to further our own interests or line the pockets of contractors while letting her own people starve on the streets.

    But this is the definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Besides being illegal, Musk’s takeover is harmful and dangerous. His apple analogy makes no mention of what fruits will be planted in its place. So my assumption is, none. This is nothing but harmful for us and the people that rely on our economic power.


  • I do enjoy these movies. They’re goofy over-the-top fun dark horror action, elevated by higher caliber actors than they have any right to.

    When the first one came out I was still in the thrall of the White Wolf World of Darkness. I remember the rumors about how closely influenced it was by V: tM. During a recent rewatch I remembered how striking and “Garou-like" the werewolf transformations were.

    Great stuff.








  • Doggo is… a puppy. A big, mouthy toddler-raptor who otherwise is super sweet and happy. More snow, please.

    New chicken this week. Plymouth Rock pullet is gonna spend some time in quarantine before she meets the ladies in the coop. She is super clingy, likes to cuddle. The other chickens are… cold, cranky and bored. Winter is yuck.

    Cat is cat. King of his lil castle. Does not like the new coverlet, tyvm, prefers the soft fuzzy blankets.



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    25 days ago

    Y’all can keep your negativity circle jerk. I’ll worry about the things in my life I can actually control instead of constantly wasting my time and energy bitching on the Internet about a guy that I will never be able to influence on any way whatsoever.

    Is that why you keep responding with vitriol, repeatedly, to people on the internet whose minds you cannot change?