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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m already telling people to get out of Florida*. I expect multiple Katrina-level events over the next 15 years. “Florida refugees” is going to become a common phrase.

    Orlando might be more likely to survive than Miami or Tampa, but do you really want to be in the city surrounded by devastation?

    We, as humans, seem to have lost the ability to plan more than 20 years into the future. Florida is still building in areas that are going to be crushed, and the only reaction is from insurance companies.

    We’re not trying to prevent it. We’re not building any kind of defenses or contingency plans. We’re not encouraging people to move out. We’re not preventing people from moving in. In fact, we’re building new and encouraging people to move IN to Florida. It’s full on head in sand.



  • But not in 100% of cases and therefore it’s not worth trying. /s

    It is a difficult problem, because there really are some mentally disturbed people in that population too. You can absolutely tackle the problem slowly and one case at a time lift most people out of that situation. But any solution that treats them as a group will bring along the 10% of them that will literally shit all over everything you’ve tried to build.



  • You can get a cheap android (but don’t have to). You can’t get a cheap iPhone.

    And are you really going to get your 12 year old the latest flagship android when there are cheaper options?

    If every android kid got the latest Pixel, I bet they wouldn’t be seen as “the cheap phone”.

    Plus Apple’s been pushing nearly every anticompeitive angle they can. The iMessage thing is 100% intentional. It’s not that the android phones aren’t capable of working with iMessage. It’s that Apple wants to make your experience worse when something happens that doesn’t involve giving them money. Because they want you to push your friends into an iPhone, and people are dumb enough to fall for it.


  • It’s not primarily about abortion rights. This vote was about preventing people from voting.

    Each bullet point of the amendment was more fuckery than the last, and it starts with the 60% threshold.

    More egregious than that was that it was going to move the signature requirement to get something onto the ballot from 5% of half the counties, to 5% of all the counties, significantly raising the cost to get anything accomplished (other than through the gerrymandered legislature).

    Even more egregious, they wanted to eliminate the ten day period to fix any issues with the signatures. So you’d submit the signatures, and some rural county commissioner would say “this street belongs to the next county over”. Now your signatures are invalid and you throw the entire effort into the trash.

    If this passes, it would have pulled up the ladder. It would have prevented any other amendment supported by the people of Ohio.