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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Perhaps someone who is trying to form a connection after spending their youth not completely understanding social conventions…

    It just feels kind of mean to dunk on him this hard for something so minor. He’s not reading Jordan Peterson or anything. It’s obviously someone trying to better themselves…they’re just doing it in a way that makes us cringe.

    Like it’s fine to laugh at the situation but have some empathy, too. They weren’t acting maliciously




  • There is absolutely no way that’s correct. No one is expecting 500+ deaths on a construction site.

    I thought that maybe that documentary was referring to a specific time period so I looked into it…

    Empire State Building, 1929: 5 deaths and the building cost 41 million dollars.

    Sears Tower, 1973: 5 deaths, 175 million

    World Trade Center (full complex), 1973: 60 deaths, 1.5 billion

    The only skyscraper I found that is close to that figure is the Burj Khalifa (2010, 1.5 billion) which “unofficially” had hundreds of deaths. And even then… it’d need to be 1500 deaths to match that statistic.




  • I lived down the block from a neighborhood pub for 13+ years. When I moved in, I had a party and a friend came in from out of town. He convinced me to go to the pub because “there’s ALWAYS a fight at neighborhood pubs.”

    So we went. And indeed, two old guys started fighting and they kicked everyone out.

    A decade later, I was lamenting the closure of my favorite pizza place to a coworker during lockdown. She said she knew a GREAT place…her favorite pizza in the city…that neighborhood pub.

    I tried it and she was right. I never ordered pizza from anywhere else again.