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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Yeah I recently switched from cable to fiber (finally available), and prior I was using an old as fuck modem/router that capped at 500Mbps. My internet at fastest was 380. I rarely transfer files over the network, so figured why bother? (I did have Gen1 Google Mesh though to cover dead spots). I had a bit of a shopping splurge when I got fiber. Nothing crazy, just an upgraded mesh and a switch (Why the fuck does Frontier provide an ONT with 8 ethernet ports but only one is active?)




  • Maybe he had back arthritis or similar conditions? If he was an old surgeon I’m sure 8+ hours a day bent over wasn’t kind to the core muscles and skeleton. As for intelligence, nobody is all knowing. Everyone has specialized knowledge, and few try to learn outside their interests. But yeah, learning basic pc skills is kinda important.








  • The long and short of WW1 was a bunch of inbred cousin monarchs were bickering about territories during the height of colonialism, and factioned up. One thought another country killed one of their Dukes, they denied it, were attacked anyhow, and then a barfight turned into a brawl, with the peons of each country being run into grinding machines (automatic machine guns were brand new and at the time old school block and line formations were still the normal way to group up and fight. So yeah, hundreds killed in seconds). After a few hundred thousand were dead from all over the world, the inbred officers realized war strategy had to change, and no one really knew wtf to do for awhile. More died, disease spread and killed even more, and eventually almost all blame fell to Germany (which was new and formed from various countries), and Germany got kinda punished unfairly, resulting in WW2 as Germans felt like they were punished so unfairly everyone else should pay. Very short version. Also Israel was formed at this time based on a whole shitload of reasons, that can be summed up with the British being narcissistic and doing whatever they thought was best while ignoring the political/religious minefield of their actions.


  • Mine was a 94. An F250 pulled out in front of me. I braked, tried to swerve into the side street. He reversed. Wet road, I kept sliding. He had a dented door. I had a broken radiator, crushed hood, and bent front axle. Totalled. To the guy’s credit, he admitted he never saw me coming in my wittle red twuck and that I fought like hell to avoid a collision, and probably would have if he hadn’t reversed. Blue Book was 5k. I got 3k. No one was selling them at the time for less than 5k and I had a minimum wage job and needed a car asap. Got a neon and a bonus: no more moving requests.





  • I mean, I doubt many people thought that a failed and then successful attempt on Ferdinand would result in thousands of men playing with new killing machines against dated formation ranks but it ended up there regardless (WW2 was gonna happen, and everyone knew it, it was just a matter of when)


  • Roe v Wade will never change, calm down libs. The climate isn’t changing, calm down libs. Project 2025 isn’t real, calm down libs. Our economy will get better, calm down libs. Our government will follow the law, not break every law so fast the courts can’t keep up, calm down libs. Maybe, just maybe, instead of just acting so blaise and dismissive over Liberal thoughts and opinions, and attempting to perpetuate this stupid game of “owning the libs” you actually listen and think critically. Liberals may not have all the answers, and maybe their beliefs don’t fully align with yours, but this country used to operate on a few core ethics and beliefs, but saying “calm down libs” like it’s a goddamn video game and keeping score is just putting us further into a shithole. So use your head, come up with some formal argument and supporting statements, and stop playing the fucking game and use your brain to fix the machine instead (or at the very least, step aside, drop the pompoms and stop playing cheerleader for the people who keep fucking shit up).