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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Just had a weeklong beach vacation. We sat on the beach once for about half an hour before the sun was too much. We mostly just took morning and evening walks on the beach. We’re not really swimmers either, which was good because the surf was fucking lethal pretty much every day. Once day the waves were reaching the dunes and pooling past the high-tide line. Kids were constantly swimming and it was incredibly dangerous. I think most days were red flag and the “nice” ones were yellow.

    The beach is pretty awful these days and we aren’t even that far south.











  • We have never rejected fanaticism.

    The revolution was built on fanatical ideas and ideals of American exceptionalism and where was propaganda to support that.

    The civil was started primarily because the wealthy didn’t want to give up free labor (slaves) but a lot of individuals supported it because they felt the big scary northern government was attacking their homes and they had to defend them and their way of life (still, slavery,).

    Pretty much every war is sold based on fanaticism. The Spanish American war was wholesale created by yellow journalism. The world wars were a bit different because America was very isolationist then and it needed a push.

    Overall America isn’t an exception here. Most humans need to be fanatical to really do big things like war or revolution.






  • Neato@ttrpg.networktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldYa feel me?
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    6 months ago

    You can definitely hear it. You can hear someone on a voice call or talk radio pretty clearly just walking near them.

    But this is really asking about the cars you can hear coming down the block that sounds like they’re trying to work out sore muscles with their subwoofers.