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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I had a thing thing on with a bookcase and told them I was sick of haggling; they could have it for free, it's at the end of the driveway.

    My buddy picked me up to do something right after and helped me take it down to the end of the driveway. He said if it's there when we get back I'll take it (he drives a van for his business).

    He dropped me off hours later, 3 hours after the guys said they would come and the bookcase was still there, it was going to rain, so we loaded it into his van.

    As we're doing this the brodogs show up in a car way too small to handle this item and acting like they would fight us over this transgression. Lol.









  • The recent congressional testimony by Dave Fravor, a pilot involved in the Tic Tac incident, made it pretty clear there was a disturbance under the surface of the ocean on an otherwise placid day. Whatever the thing they encountered was, it seems to have a connection to the ocean (in that instance anyway).

    The swarming of the Nimitz occurred in the ocean as well and I believe Ryan Graves’ squadron was operating over the ocean as well.


  • Perspective of a 50 year old man. You should wear what you like. I have long believed “fashion” is a money printing machine. I won’t say it preys on insecurity because that is condescending and ignores the fact that many people love following fashion, getting new clothes, etc. But I do think the pace of change is specifically designed to turn over cheaply produced inventory and ensure people don’t wear the clothes enough to wear them out.

    I have been wearing basically the same clothes for years. If I tear out a knee I buy new pants. That kind of thing.

    My wife needs to wear business attire and fairly dressy stuff (blazers, etc). She is always buying new things and donating clothing.

    One of us is spending an order of magnitude more on clothes.

    I don’t begrudge this, she makes more money than me and has to dress that way because of her job.

    The point I’m trying to make is to stay current and fashionable is pa kort of her purchasing but she also just wears stuff out very, very quickly. It’s the way the clothes are made.

    The marketing and poor quality (weak seams, thin fabric, inconsistent sizing, etc) is all designed up maximize profit.