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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • ah yeah quite true, if the question is egg’s in general, then yeah, eggs existed before the first land walking creatures. I always assumed the question is meaning a chicken egg specifically. Of which the answer is still the same as, as assuming we as humans pick an arbitrary line to draw for being a chicken. Obviously before the first chicken exists, a creature just short of meeting the qualifications for a chicken, would have layed an egg of what we define as a chicken, to create the first “chicken”.



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    8 days ago

    I mean, not really sure here where we are going. If the workers were even half way towards interest in the socialist party. Claudia De La Cruz got what .1% of the vote in 2024? If there’s actual momentum to a 3rd party vote in a way we can feasibly see a path to victory I’m all for it. The way I see it we have 2 very fucking long shots. There’s trying to infiltrate the democratic party and gradually turn it into a party that helps people. Or there’s creating a new party and expect it to pass all of the insane hurdles to get on every ballot and then, find a way to actually get a competitive amount of votes, while hoping the faccism slide doesn’t hit fast enough that elections won’t exist before we get votes.


  • Sadly… that doesn’t really track with Christianity.

    I mean you can add the overall benefits of everyones needs are automatically met. There’s no talk of toiling for food etc…

    But on top of the automatic fact that angels clearly have a hierarchy, god is clearly a full power ruler, there’s tons of verses that talk about people that will be the least in heaven, or greatest in heaven (Matthew 5:19). On top of building treasures in heaven (Matthew 6:19) etc…





  • I also second that having 2 days off in a row, is better to recharge.

    Now as far as making them not the weekend…

    Pros:

    Great for all the millions of takes forever tasks that can only be done durring business hours… need to update your drivers license, have any taxes, negotiate with the bank on things, or anything else that can only be done mon-friday in business hours… fricking awesome ease of options.

    As also mentioned, socializing is the drawback… want to meet with a friend, date etc… well that’s a bit less fun, best bet is to do it on a worknight but still be ready to come home early enough to not be dead on your ass at work.







  • Knowledge being the key to power, I can’t say I’m inherantly against it (though power in and of itself is a risk).

    The problem of course is, generally speaking… all fields run as a business under capitalism, and thus the top of them is generally the person who runs the business side.

    IE I would love for knowledgable doctors to be in charge of healthcare decisions… unfortunately in practice what we get is hospital CEOs, health insurance executives etc… That specialize in how to help extract money from sick people… and not prioritize helping people not get sick, and making sure everyone can be treated if they are.


  • well depends on your definition. In short it means attempting to make justice without authorization.

    In the case of doing legal research, accessing things that are happening in public, and turning them in to authorities (be it community wise, or law enforcement. I would say very few have any opposition to.

    Where it gets far greyer is when you are doing things that are illegal or imoral in and of themselves without evidence of what you are dealing with.

    IE say you hack someone’s computer to discover they have been doing illegal actions etc… In the case of the guilty person most people are good with that… but it begs the question, did you hack a bunch of innocent people, to find that one guilty person. How did you know they were guilty etc…

    and then of course the more absolute extreme ones, when you apply the punishment yourself in spite of that being a crime in and of itself. Say you beat up, kill, kidnap, destroy proporty etc… That’s generally frowned upon, except in instances where most people can agree on the horror of the crime, and completely lack any faith in the legal channels to appropriately enforce it even when the evidence is right in front of their faces. IE why fictional superheros like batman are popular (and why making him popular mostly involves the story implying that gotham’s police are either incompetent or too corrupt to enforce the law), as well as say in the real world people like Luigi are loved.


  • Basically the way it usually works is.

    Chinese knock off mass factory, makes stores and has the items.

    They find a guy in America and say "Hey can you list our items on ebay, when you sell them, we’ll take $20, you can probably sell them for $50.

    Guy lists item for $50, someone buys it, he then just e-mails the dropshipper and asks them to send it straight to the buyer. Sometimes he will have to give ebay a fake tracking number (because ebay doesn’t approve the practice).

    Point is the drop shipper is just there to conceal the actual source of the product. That’s generally because they are sketchy in some other way.

    A co-worker of mine at one point got into a drop shipping scam. She was selling golf clubs that way (she was selling them about 80% of expected retail, place she was buying from was charging her about 25% of retail. She didn’t know (but probably should have guessed) that the clubs she was selling were counterfeit, and she about had a heart attack when her 2nd customer called her out on it (she refunded him and took the loss).