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Cake day: February 11th, 2024

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  • Education of people is always(?) better, I’d say.

    It’s good to exercise the mind, just like exercising the body.

    What if 25% of car drivers could handle their own car maintenance? The one downside people will scream at first is that fewer mechanics will be needed.

    But that is too short sided.

    More home mechanics will need to buy more tools, so that’s more store jobs and more manufacturing jobs and more shipping/trucking jobs.

    And more people who understand mechanics mean a better workforce who can invent new/better products or processes. And can do more research into manufacturing science, which would improve society.

    This would also lead to safer cars because they are better roadworthy, and car manufacturers would have a harder time using low quality parts.

    So all of those changes would apply to technology when more people know how to use technology.









  • Republicans campaign on “YOU are better than THEM. We will protect you from THEM.” With them being whatever group plays on fears the most. Republicans don’t campaign on tax cuts for the rich, which is what their policies actually are. People are happy to be miserable as long as they think they are better than someone else.

    Democrats campaign on the idea that everyone can be equal and things can be more fair. There isn’t a perfect fair for everybody in all circumstances, so each kink is an attack vector. And people who are miserable would have to actually take a look at their life and have some responsibility if they are equal to others.

    Fear is a powerful motivator, and it can focus a person on just the fear and ignore everything else happening to them. Especially the ones who have purposely been kept dumb.