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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Yeah, I can’t do that. As little as I drive, they would last longer, but still. I’ll be retired or close enough in 12-years, won’t be able to afford a fresh battery. My ICE convertible and truck are 02 and 04 models and run fine.

    Knowing there’s a hard limit on usage, with a wildly expensive repair at the end, that’s tough to swallow. I can keep my 04 F150 running forever. (For certain values of forever.)




  • Old white guy here, never seen the appeal. And I feel like the targeted demographic.

    It’s all stuff I can make at home, sometimes better. If I want some real fried chicken or BBQ, I’ll drive down the road and find a black man with a grill under an umbrella. Same with Mexican. Hit a taco truck where they speak just enough English to take an order. I’m perfectly capable of making white people food with loads of sugar, butter and salt.

    The gift store sometimes has odds and ends I might like, but the prices are too stupid to bother looking anymore. “Meh, that’s a kinda cool coffee mug. $25 BUCKS?!”

    Weirdly enough, my Pilipino wife seems to like it. Never been with her, keep voting it down. I’ll have to cave one day. Bleh.


  • First time I got called a cracker I laughed and hung up on the caller (customer service job).

    “Eww! You a smartass little cracker ain’t ya!”

    Pulled a black friend aside:

    “Hey Darren, I just got called a ‘cracker’. Is that a racial slur or something?”

    LOL, Darren just stared at me a minute. “Yeah, you know, master cracking the whip? (with hand-waving demo) You never heard that?!”

    Darren was an education. Got stuck with him and another coworker in a room all afternoon. Had to leave because my stomach hurt from laughing so hard and so long. Thought I was getting sick until I got away from him and took a breath.




  • Inflation is well under control, quite low in fact. Lemmy has this bizarre view that because prices didn’t come down, inflation is still rampant.

    That is not how the world works, hell, that not even how the word works. Inflation is a measure of how quickly prices are rising. Deflation is when prices go down, and it’s generally an awful sign for the economy. tl:dr; Prices go down, you lose your job.