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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I was supervising filling in a pit we had dug on the edge of a forest. We had dump trucks coming in dumping gravel. One particular driver wasn’t great at his job and there had been issues with him in the past.

    That driver came in and dumped his gravel, but then he drove off with his bed still raised and almost immediately smashed into electric lines that ran off into the forest. One telephone pole even snapped at the base and fell over.

    Within 30 seconds multiple cops came speeding onto the job site. It turns out those electric lines ran to a radio tower in the woods that ran the police radio. The idiot in the dump truck had taken out the police comms for the whole town.











  • I used a convection toaster oven in the kitchen.

    That fried the circuits of 1/3 of the house. Some amateur electrician tied in several new circuits into the same kitchen breaker. They used undergauged wire on top of it.

    Cost us $6k to fix and that was a hell of a deal from some Covid - unemployed union electricians. They put in 3 breakers where there was one before. The electrician had a hell of a time tracking where all the lines came from. That included a 3ft fireball shooter ng out of the wall because a line was love when it shouldn’t have been.


  • American values? Can’t have that!

    Like the separation of church and state?

    Immigration? Come on in, we’ll worry about it later!

    That’s how 99% of the country got here. It’s what made (and still makes) this country great. Incorporating people from around the world is an American value.

    Trump is running again? Let’s do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING to stop him from campaigning!!

    What about the American value of respecting law and order by not supporting a convicted felon for president?

    Crime is getting worse? Let’s ease up on punishment! Crime isn’t getting worse.

    Crime is actually going down.

    Biological men want to compete with women in sports? Okay!

    Accepting those with different beliefs and respecting the way they choose to live their life is another American value.