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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • That’s not the issue. Wealth became too consolidated. America’s baby boomers weren’t born for efficiency of labor hands. They were born because one person could work one full time job at most employers and afford a house, a car, bills, a few kids, and a vacation every year.

    Now that’s not possible for very much of the workforce at all. Raising kids hasn’t gotten that much more expensive to raise in relation to other basic needs. It’s just that all those other basic needs tend to take up a lot bigger portion of your paycheck. People already struggling don’t want to add children to the pile of their struggles.





  • Most apartment locks and such are made for the purchaser to be able to easily and quickly re-key. You set it to be rekeyed, put a cut key in, and then lock the key pattern for it in place. Takes like 5 minutes or less. That way every time someone moves out you can keep things secure without replacing the lock.

    In your case, the building manager was just a lazy fuck.

    It is common for lock makers of normal locks to do production runs of just like 50 different key sets.













  • Back in the 80s pizza hut charged premium prices, but tasted fantastic with actual quality ingredients. Tasted even better if you ate it at the restaurant right out of the cast iron.

    Then they lost some sales to cheaper on the go places that popped up like Dominoes and little Caesars. Instead of sticking to the higher end and maintaining for customers that we’re willing to spend more on taste, they opted to go down in the mud and compete on cheap, cheaping out on ingredients and cook\prep time. They couldn’t do that as well as the other guys, who’d been doing it from the start. So they completely tanked themselves. Dumb corpo decisions. You can’t make a shit product to compete with other shit product when all your brick and mortar is 4x the size and not designed to sling out pizza as fast. Instead of just excepting that they weren’t going to keep all of the customer base wanting pizza, they shot themselves in both legs.


  • I just replaced the original (with mods to make it look nicer) last year. Hadn’t played it since like 1997 on PS. It was great nostalgia and still a great game, but obviously a bit dated in some QOL departments.

    It is, however, a complete game and the story line is still good. Especially if you go into it blind. The entire materia system to give your characters powers and perks is legendary.

    The OG game came out as an entire (and long) game. It’s complete. Major bonus. No bullshit having to buy a game like 3 times over a 15 year span just to get it all. Not to mention having to keep waiting for that 3rd game to release.

    If you like (or think you may like) old school turn based rpg’s, then give it a shot. You should like it. If you don’t like those, avoid it, and if you haven’t ever played one, it’s not a lot of money to risk.

    I do recommend getting some mods on it though. It can be made to look much better than it originally did during that awkward phase where they were making 3d games, but graphics weren’t good enough to warrant making them 3d.


  • With a generational ship and a shield and a way of blocking cosmic rays I think it will eventually be possible, but take a very long time. I don’t believe light speed will ever be possible, but going near light speed starts slowing down time a whole bunch for those on board the ships. So if for instance we came up with some trickery to get up to 99% the speed of light and wanted to go to a planet one galaxy over that’s 25,000 light years away, in theory the ship and the people in it would get there in about 1200 years. Even though it would be like 25,000 years for anyone who wasn’t on the ship. At 99.999% it would only take what would seem like about 115 years on the ship.

    I’m not going to say that’s flat out impossible that it could happen but we’d have to find one hell of a way to cheat the system.

    Alternatively, I think it will come about (if humans don’t kill ourselves off) that a person can “live forever” in one form or another. If we get to that point then pesky things like travel time and atmospheres and such will be much less an issue. I then wonder how long a person would want to be around before they decided they’d rather “self terminate”.