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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Here’s my pro tip.

    You want a unique picturesque wedding on a budget?

    National Parks in the US. If you keep your guest list under 50 people, you can get married anywhere in the park, provided you don’t block access, put up decorations, or damage the park, and it’s free! If you have more than 50 people, you need a permit, and those are raffled off per day, and almost no one uses them.

    I got married on the bluffs overlooking Little Hunter’s Beach in Acadia National Park. The drive, food, and lodging for my wedding there cost less than the first payment for the venue of my “local” ceremony in my home city, which we ended up canceling anyway.






  • Lawn. I have a lawn. Just grass. Takes water and space. Makes a little O2 and that’s it.

    FWIW, I’m trying to get rid of it. Plans to build a solar array in the back yard, cover the patio with a greenhouse that connects the house to the garage, side yard is going to be raised planters, and the front is going to be mostly wildflowers with some small pathways and nooks for reading and relaxing. I’d like to get it to the point where I can “mow” the whole property with just a string trimmer.



  • The reality started to crumble in 4th grade. I had a history book that covered the “main” wars for the US. Chapters on WWI and WWII had sizable “causes for conflict” and those sections for Vietnam and Korea were much much smaller.

    9/11 was just a few years after that moment for me. Seeing people around me laughing at the thought of “revenge” by bombing other people endlessly was a major crack. Farenheit 911 was the absolute “we’re not the good guys” moment for me. My idea of patriotism shifted. I stopped believing that America was great, and started believing that America can be great, but it’s gonna take a lot of work, work that half of my fellow Americans are unwilling to do.


  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldOn a plate
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    1 month ago

    Ah yes, the US is the reason why other countries can’t grow enough food.

    Yes there is nuance here. It’s idiotic to think that the interaction between population density, climate change, agricultural technology, supply line disruptions, international relationships and literally everything else, impacting the ability to provide food in a specific location on the planet is a black and white issue.

    Shit, I should of realized it was you. The naive dogshit logic should have tipped me off.



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    It’s not, there is some nuance here.

    The right-wing take is that we should use this potential crisis to lockdown borders, deny aid to others, and have it as an excuse why you don’t have to do anything to fight climate change, becuase people in (pick whatever the current scary country is) are breeding out of control, and coming here and ruining things for us.

    The left wing take is to promote healthcare, education, and contraceptive use, while providing aid, making those benefits available to everyone, and empowering yourself and others to act.

    The facts about population dynamics is not a right or left wing thing. What you think is the solution to the situation is.








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    The problem with ending world hunger is, food abundance allows for more people. If you want to end world hunger, you need to start with healthcare and contraceptives and education, which is more expensive and less “flashy” than just saying “I bought a lifetime supply of rice for poor people in X area”.