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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I was around for that time, and yes in many ways the world is better now, it’s a mixed bag but:

    My kids were not beat up in school for being queer.

    The bay is much cleaner (though that is going in the wrong direction)

    Solar power has come down in cost so much that there is hope for the clean energy transition to accelerate.

    I was literally paid less than the men doing the same job I was doing, openly, in the early 1990s. And there was smoking in offices.

    Violent crime is much less prevalent than it was back then. My kids don’t have to be as careful or afraid as I was.

    Overall - I don’t think it is useful to be nostalgic, there are enough changes in a positive direction, sure we had more hope for the future in the 1990s but the reason we needed it was because things were kinda shitty.



  • Yeah I rotate everything, usually would put them in the front garden since they are showy, this year in the veg garden because it’s so hot in the summer they give some shade to the rest of the stuff. It’s a mess right now, the butternut squash got attacked so bad I think it has to be removed in a plastic bag. And something is attacking the sprawling watermelon plants too, but those seem to be surviving.


  • It’s infantilizing. I would never treat a grown man that way, nor would I live with a guy who expected to be ‘taken care of’ to that extent. It implies a lack of trust in your ability to take care of yourself. I want a partner, not another child to take care of!

    You are average in this, I would say.










  • Famous is different from working. I have known plenty of artists who just hustle and make a living - singing telegrams, weddings, bar gigs, teaching, they make enough to get by. They are working musicians.

    Then there are all those bands who plug on, famous but not wildly so, I think they are making enough to live on just their band earnings.

    Then a very few who get rich. Mostly those are kids of connected people, not always but often.

    It’s the same with any entertainment industry, right? Average earnings on onlyfans is something like $3 a month.

    And there is just So Much Talent in the world, and people have limited entertainment budgets.