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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Listen the IRS has routinely made clear that every time it’s forensic accountants get to sink their teeth into a billionaires financials, the return on that effort is enormous. Don’t ask “how are going to tax billionaires,” first demand that they actually BE taxed.

    We’ll figure it out later, man. Realistically, just have a team of specialists that focuses solely on the ultra-wealthy, and then let “unrealized gains” be taxed if they were ever used as collateral for a loan.




  • it’s so much food, and stupid filling, but only like 2000 calories for the whole thing! When I want to lose weight, I can either stick very strictly to JUST that food, and I’ll lose about a pound or 2 a week with zero activity. However, I’m also an amateur bodybuilder, so I gotta keep up with my gym time at least 3 times a week, so if I maintain that activity PLUS keep to this diet, I’ll lose a pound of belly fat every 2 days. It’s pretty dope.

    I like to get real sexy and svelt, get down to like 155 (I’m 5’8" Male) for the summer and for my birthday, once I hit my birthday, I’m allowed to eat whatever the fuck I want until I feel the itch to lose weight again. I’ll balloon up to like 185 or 190 in the winter with all my snacking and extra chocolate, but all the while I keep myself from going too crazy by sticking with my usual meal plan.

    My guide to life is “everything in moderation, but especially moderation”


  • Shit I always thought I had a little 'tism… Yeah I’ve eaten pretty much the same meal plan every day for over a decade. Soup and Sandwiches! Can’t go wrong with a bowl of soup and a sandwich for dinner, nope nope!

    Breakfast is Steelcut Oatmeal made with splenda, cinnamon, and a dash of salt. 2 cups of coffee, each with splenda, pinch of salt and cinnamon.

    Lunch I don’t eat, just power through with caffeine.

    Dinner is two open-face turkey sandwiches. Scirachi aoli, cheddar cheese, smoked turkey, turkey pepperoni, jalepenos, topped with a nice bed of crunchy lettuce. A can of high-protein soup, with some tobasco and (a lot of) extra beans thrown in, microwaved for 6 minutes, then pop in some Italian seasoned croutons, let them soak up the soup for like 15-20 min while you eat the sandwiches, turns that bad boy into a delicious bready stew. Add to the dinner a pound bag of baby carrots, and a big ass iceberg/cabbage salad with whatever dressing for a great big bolus of fiber.

    For dessert, Get you a sugar-free package of pudding in your fav flavor (Banana Cream and Pistachio), mix it with 3 cups of cold fat-free milk, let that sit while you eat din-din, then pour some rice krispies over the pudding, and eat it layer by layer, adding rice krispies for mouth feel as you go.

    Fucking delicious. I’ve eaten that everyday for around 15 years now? I’ve gotten better recently, and have started having pizza nights, where I replace the soup and sandwiches with a whole pizza, but yeah, 99.9% of the time, soup and sandwiches. Classic combo. The best combo.


  • The more people that vote, the more people vote democrat. republicans are doing literally everything they can to disenfranchise voters, because it’s the only way they can win elections. I mean, they stole the last presidential election after failing to do it the previous time. I’m not so sure we’ll have an election in 2028, the pipeline of “sending untrained militia into the streets hoping to spark an incident that allows them an excuse to invoke martial law and cancel elections” is running very smoothly.


  • Jeff Tweedy is, I think, the greatest American lyricist of his generation. His stuff always hits. But for some reason, Wilco- She’s a Jar and it’s chorus, has always stuck with me.

    "Just climb aboard

    The tracks of a trains arm

    In my fragile family tree

    And watch me floating inches above

    The people under me"

    Another one from Jeff’s (I’ve seen him in concert 5 times already, I can call him Jeff) solo Album, Jeff Tweedy- I know what it’s like

    "When the lights are dim

    In my window I have a twin

    I’m always looking out

    And he’s always looking in

    I know what it’s like

    Starting over again"

    And then, finally, from one of the greatest flows in the rap game, MF DOOM- Figaro, and this weird ass lyric that has lived rent-free in my head since I heard it

    "Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat

    Off sides like how Worf rides with Starfleet"


  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    The monkeys realize they can power contraptions using the heat from combustion. After widespread adoption, they find out that the result of this process is slowly destroying their home at an increasing rate. The monkeys ignore the destruction, because the monkeys have created a system that replaces work with a token, and monkeys hoarding tokens having seized control of the central monkey systems, stopping any other monkeys from addressing the destruction of their home.

    The Monkeys with the most, are also the most afraid, because they fear no longer having tokens, and of being treated like they treat token-less monkeys. So the hoarding monkeys cheat and lie and steal until they’re so powerful that even committing terrible crimes doesn’t get them in trouble with other monkeys, so afraid monkeys are of those with the most tokens.

    So quietly, and without notice, the day comes and passes, when if they were going to stop the destruction, if they were going to save their world, they would have had to have acted on that day… but they didn’t. Because the token-having monkeys made sure that no other monkeys were allowed to stop them. And so they continued destroying their only home, until it was too late, and they all ended up dying of starvation, thirst, and exhaustion, while the planet they were on went about it’s day, hoping that a newer, more intelligent kind of life would emerge.





  • It should, first and foremost, evoke emotion.

    It should have relatable characters, with good dialogue, that show growth.

    It should leave an imprint upon the viewer, such that it inspires reflection, learning, or growth itself.

    The protagonist doesn’t have to be a good person, but they have to be a kind person.

    The antagonist should be seen as relatable, even pitiful (think Gollum, not Sauron).

    Good musical score, coloring, lighting, sound, and direction are needed but Great acting is required.

    An editor that loves the story.





  • My little brother, I’m fairly certain, pioneered this technique in dealing with our racist parents.

    My parents would say something casually awful, about LGBTQ, Black, Latino, or Muslim people and my lil bro would sarcastically, and enthusiastically agree, stringing their point along to the logical conclusion of their hate-centered universe, and watch them get more and more uncomfortable.

    example:

    parents: “Black people are just genetically more violent”

    lil Bro: “Oh yeah, they’re genetically inferior all right, and genes can be altered before birth, so we should treat melanin as a genetic anomaly and edit it entirely out. we should put the rest in cages and make them perform like in a zoo. Everyone who isn’t perfectly milky alabaster white should be shot out of a cannon and into the sun. My freckles are a sin to god and we should cut them out of our bodies ritualistically. My friend Gary is black, let’s go fucking shoot him for it.”

    Parents: 😶

    I had been away for a minute and watched it happen for the first time, and I laughed, applauded, and clapped my bro on the back… So proud of him.


  • don’t know what subjective is lol, mate do you not have to remember to use other birth control, not have to have it physically with you, does taking, organizing, and ensuring the steady presence of pills, shots, and whatever not produce some challenge?

    You invented some arbitrary metric of “birth control is only convenient and effective when you don’t have to carry it with you,” and then been an ass about condoms not meeting that subjective, arbitrary measurement. As if it’s such a strain on your gentle countenance to bear the massive weight of less than 2 grams. Do you go out on dates entirely naked? Do you not carry your phone, wallet, keys, and trousers with you? Well you need underwear in order to maintain good hygiene for your balls, and because you’ve got to carry them around, they’re not very convenient are they?

    You’re an absolute tosser. Just say you hate women, mate. that’d be easier.