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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • It’s not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place it under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes

    The primary difference is he’s doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he’s about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn’t scare the shit of of you then it should




  • I think the US infrastructure leads to a confirmation bias. There probably aren’t that many people who are actually “bad” drivers out there. The majority of people aren’t getting tickets, damaging their car, or hurting people most of the time when they drive. Our culture being so car centric however means that the actually bad drivers don’t have a choice but to be on the road. Bad driving also calls a lot of attention to itself because it’s dangerous. So when you drive you frequently see bad driving when realistically most people are just fine drivers, leading to you thinking more people are bad, and thus you must be better

    That and American exceptionalism probably



  • As someone working corporate when I’m on the job hunt I do spend a little money. LinkedIn Premium definitely gets more recruiters to message me, presumably because it pushes my profile in front of them. I have an AI tool that I load my resume into and it fills out applications for me. According to its stats I’ve saved over an hour of time using it which is a believable number to me and the sanity it saves is huge too. I haven’t used the AI bulk application services because I want to consciously know what jobs I’m applying for. So in total job hunting costs me about $50/month and I often use the time to pick up a new certification. So in total I probably spend $750 between jobs

    Luckily the vast majority of my interviews are virtual so I don’t have to drive all over the city paying for gas or that would add to it