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Cake day: December 15th, 2024

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  • But the thing is that here in Europe, we are more relaxed than USians because we have government mandated vacation days. It’s even better when I get sick at the same time because I can catch a free ambulance ride to the hospital near the beach since there is no “out of network” medical care (whatever that means) here. I can then take mass transit from the hospital to the beach and make university-educated friends with everyone because tuition here is free. Because I didn’t die in a mass shooting when leaving the beach, I can order a reasonably-sized meal that doesn’t cause instant cardiovascular disease and not leave a tip because our servers are paid a living wage. I can’t imagine the horror of living in such an underdeveloped country as USA. I am so glad I am in the EU.

    • Sent from my phone without concern of being doxxed or tracked thanks to EU privacy laws

  • I wonder if military training itself is radicalizing a person? just kidding. I don’t wonder. I know it has to. The basic principle pushed behind everything in military indoctrination is that one should be not only ready but happy and excited to risk their life to kill others. Dying for this purpose is virtuous as the halls of military installations are covered with the citations of Medal of Honor recipients, many who received the award posthumously. Basically, they see how individuals that sacrificed their lives for the greater goal of protecting their team and destroying the enemy are celebrated at the utmost honorable. The instilled model holds that fellow service members and countrymen are good and whomever they say is enemy is totally evil and must be killed. There is no transitional program to remove that perspective at the end of service, so it stays there. The veteran knowing that they didn’t think that way before service may understand that they have to develop a new model or adjust the military one by watching others. If things get too stirred up in a veteran, then the model might be applied if there aren’t others to choose from that may provide a solution to the veteran’s issues. If the military model is applied, whomever the veteran has placed in the enemy slot based on what media pushes (which in the past decade or so is that even fellow Americans are enemy), friends say (many using the crap from the media),…whatever input they receive to help understand the world around them…that group is now not only marked as enemy, but can be the target of the veteran’s self-understood virtuous sacrifice through violence.

    I don’t understand how this isn’t obvious. People are people. Civilians are people. Enemy are people. Veterans are people. People are people. Training people with intense brainwashing to hate a vague concept so that they deeply believe at their core that killing others for the protection of their team is going to result in someone that thinks that way. What other way could it possibly result in? Veterans can be ticking time bombs if their environment is setup for it. Comparing themselves to others that don’t seem to feel the same, many commit suicide to clear their mind and end the turmoil because they can tell others don’t even understand what they are thinking and feeling, let alone help them, so there’s no respite from what happens in there. The only way to end it is to literally end it. If they’re going to kill themselves, might as well follow the exalted examples of the Medal of Honor recipients.


  • MAGA doesn’t want to promote of accomplish a stardard political goal like most other political parties. MAGA just wants to win. Once they’ve won and defeated their enemy, they need to find a new one. First, it was Obama, then Biden, Harris, immigrants, BLM, infectious disease experts, southern immigrants, and on and on…But they don’t really believe their platform. It’s unstable and lacks internal consistency because they say whatever to win. Once they beat their enemy, they have no goal. It all falls apart. I think the smart strategy for the next 2 years is for Democrats to stay out of the news, out of social media, and irrelevant. Let MAGA go at each other.




  • So the USBP doesn’t practically patrol regular routes at regular times? And the people smuggling $1.1 million in cocaine across the US-Canada border don’t know those routes and times? And the smugglers happened to accidentally leave that much contraband laying around and disappeared with miles and miles of woods while USBP is patrolling? And they left it on the route to be easily found by some government employee just doing their routine? And the USBP agent just happened to be paying attention enough at the right time to spot 2 black backpacks? And when they checked, they found $1.1 million worth of cocaine inside? And no one was arrested in connection to that much cocaine just laying around at a border?

    Yep, nothing else to investigate here. Pack it up, boys.


  • I haven’t used Windows in about 3 years, so I may be out of date, but in my experience, Ubuntu and its derivatives work easier with scanners and printers. For me and my printer-scanner combo, I literally just have to place it and the Linux desktop on the same network/WiFi. I don’t even have to add the printer-scanner. The OS finds it in the background on its own. It confused me the first time it happened because like you, I had wearisome issues in the past. Last I used Windows, I had to tell the OS to search for the printer and find the drivers for it myself online. Now, it’s installed before I open up printers on my OS.