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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Not related. It’s not a zero sum game. Spending on certain things can save money and allow for tax cuts, tax cuts can create business growth or income in other ways and allow more spending. Defering tax cuts to a certain time or spending to a certain time can lead to better results, ect ect ect.

    Anyone who thinks it’s linked and must be Tax up=Spending up or Tax down=Spending down should probably not even be in charge of their own homes finances. Even children are taught how to save their allowance over time and then spend it, and I had occasion as a child to “borrow” my allowance to purchase a toy that was on sale.



  • I’m really not following you anymore.

    I wasn’t dismissing the fact that (in Ontario anyways) the HPV vaccine was rolled out for girls and not boys. I’m trying to get you to use your brain and think about “why” that would be.

    Because if you think some board of doctors and scientists in the late 90’s was like “you know what, fuck men, let’s give this vaccine only to women, that will level the playing field.” Then I don’t know what to tell you.





  • Just depends on how it hits. I got a random message like

    “It was great seeing you Sally, we should catch up like that more often.”

    My name isn’t Sally. But my mom’s is. And my mom is at an age where sometimes I get a TXT via email, if you get me. And she complains about her friend not understanding tech…And this friend was visiting from out of town for the first time in years, one who I had told mom to give my number too in case they needed assistance while visiting.

    So I said “Hey, Maureen, this is Sue, you must have pressed the wrong button. I’m sure Mom agrees! How was the restaurant? I’ve been meaning to try it.”

    Now… That was not smart. I gave actually checks and changes real name to Sue my real name, my mom’s and a well known restaurant name. If the scammer had have been smart, there’s a million things they could have done with that to trick me, either immediately or by waiting awhile and then acting.

    But they were on their pig butchering script, so their next TXT was clunky, and was like “oh! No this is Ally, I must have gotten the wrong number! Silly me.”

    And I was like. “Oh ok. No problem, glad you got to catch up with your friend then!”

    And then like 2 hours later they txtd “is that restaurant in city? I’ve always wanted to visit.”

    And I didn’t reply.

    And the next was a hilarious cut and paste from the wiki of the city like “it has 1.9 million people and an economy of 59million annually! How cool!” Do you live there?"

    By then I had figured it out.

    But they do this all the time, there are alot of them, and it doesn’t take much luck for your guard to go down…


  • So… no coherent point. Thank you for clarifying.

    Anyone can earn my vote by:

    Prioritizing healthcare and social services (including education) Protecting basic human rights. Not being a shit-bag of a human nor tolerating them in government. Focusing on green economic growth.

    I don’t base my votes off who can get me the most irrationally mad about issues that are invented or overblown. And while I have a whole list of complaints about the uselessness of the changes to gun laws here, the biggest one is how effective it is at mobilizing otherwise happily dissconnected voters into actually taking the time to go vote. It’s like 8d chess where the Liberals are looking for a way to get the Conservative vote out and found the key…




  • But it only supports them if their video is then also good. I don’t like clickbait, because I don’t want to be tricked into my monkey brain looking at something. I do want to see good videos.

    Just yesterday the algorithm found some guy doing tech videos. I watched a few of them and then sent a text to a friend who I thought would like it. He asked for a link so I pulled the guys channel up on my phone, and holy smokes, clickbait. If I hadn’t seen the videos already I wouldn’t have given that guy the time of day. But they are well thought out, interesting videos.

    I’m not here to correct the world’s poor behaviour. I’m here to watch good videos. De-arrow does a good job of that, it’s quite interesting to see YouTube on a computer without it vs what I’m used to now.



  • Gary and his Demons is wild, hard to say if it’s up your alley.

    Cavendish you might enjoy the supernatural angle.

    Dark Matter? Is that on gem? It was filmed in Toronto and has a small following. (Just checked it is not…)

    Started Poker face and it’s got some good vibes.


  • I agree with you when you say “it’s who you are”.

    Do you not see a situation where someone is born and believes themselves gay (the reasons why they would think this are numerous, almost as numerous as the countless reasons people think they are straight growing up) and then after living as a gay person they come to understand themselves better and recognise that they are actually fairly straight?

    I’m not saying that’s what’s going on here, it sounds very sad and basically someone just heading back to the closet to avoid shitty people and shitty society. But questioning someone who says they are straight, or gay or bi or enby or ace or whatever, is flawed. They may be lieing, they may be confused, hiding, virtue signalling. But you don’t get to call them bi just because they said and behaved as if they were gay and now say and behaving as if they are not. Someone who used to have sex and now says they are ace isn’t lying, or wrong or akchewally…

    I don’t want this to come off as hostile, I get why you are asking. It’s a complex topic and I might be wrong.

    I think I’m explaining myself alright, but I’m open to discussion