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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Taiwan is a representative democracy now, not a dictatorship.

    I think a slightly better analogy, if you’re serious, would be the relationship of the U.S. and Cuba (to make you feel better, I’ll go along with your propaganda and pretend that the U.S. is the only bad guy in the world).

    So, China and Taiwan are like if the U.S. tried to control Cuba and failed, and then some other country from the other side of the world (just for example, let’s suggest it was Russia), stepped in to prop up and protect Cuba.

    So, can you see how maybe what would be best for everyone is that the Cubans should get to decide on their own how they are governed? Much like the people of Taiwan, through their representative democracy, should be able to tell China to piss off already.




  • That’s funny. I’m 55 and the reason I’m pro-palestine is the American doctors working there who reported that they worked on babies that were intentionally shot.

    https://www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-graph

    Out of the 53 American medical workers surveyed who did emergency care for children in Gaza, 44 said they saw kids shot in the head or chest. Here’s Mark.

    Mark Perlmutter

    83% said they saw a child who was shot in the chest or head-- 83%. So it’s not just my finding.

    Ike Sriskandarajah

    Could you describe that moment when you saw just how many?

    Mark Perlmutter

    Oh, I cried. Yeah, because it gave a number to the tragedy.

    Ike Sriskandarajah

    Feroze published an op ed in the New York Times with the results of the survey. A group of the doctors wrote two letters to then President Biden outlining what they saw. Feroze thought that would mean two things-- they’d get a call from the White House and there’d be an investigation.













  • We do about $300/kid. We haven’t increased that over the years with inflation.

    Kid’s are all grown up now. A couple years ago we started having everyone make Amazon wishlists. It was too difficult to figure out what everyone wanted. The wishlists make it easier for everyone. Also, we can put all our purchases on an Amazon store card and get 12 months interest free.

    (I know. Amazon.)

    Last year I also gave each kid a $300 Amazon gift card because everything sucks, and I didn’t want them to feel pressure for the holiday. I’ll do that again this year.

    It probably seems crazy, but it works for us.