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Cake day: October 6th, 2024

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  • What’s the phrases something like “don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story”

    I believe that. Loved the movie “big fish”

    One thing I like to say is “I once had my hair braided illegally in the Bahamas” sounds fascinating and it’s technically true. The real story is I cheaped out and the person who braided my hair didn’t have a license for a business.

    Lots of people go to unlicensed hair stylist. It not that interesting when you lay out the facts.





  • Oh yeah definitely. If anyone is curious how you can make that work (voting but not staying informed on politics) it’s actually simple and you can do it today.

    Find someone you trust, someone you think is smart and educated, if you’re a man maybe pick a woman ( I don’t know much about women’s bodies which is why I’m pro choice even though I don’t agree with abortion, it’s good for me to listen to women about those kind of things)

    Anyway find that person and just be like “hey, who are we voting for?”

    Speaking of voting by proxy there’s a cute story before my dad died and my grandad was still around.

    My dad was a trump supporter (he was a good man he just got brainwashed when he got older by Fox News. He was a technology teacher and would notice the kids that didn’t want to go home because their home life was a mess. He’d let them stay after school and learn computers “you get good enough at this and you’ll never have to go home again”. Steve Jobs gave my dad an award. Alot of those kids have successful careers in tech now. Good man lost to Fox News)

    Anyway my grandad was a Democrat but at over 100 years old he just couldn’t go out and vote. He was very upset he couldn’t vote because it was the Biden election and my grandad… well we had to pull him from the nursing home because he bullied the younger old people with “I killed the Nazis once, I’ll kill ‘em again if I have to”

    My dad respected my mothers father so much he asked my grandad who he planned to vote for and my dad voted that way. A die hard trump supporter voted for Biden out of pure respect for my grandfather.

    They both died before trump came back to office. So atleast my grandfather died thinking the Nazis were defeated again.






  • I used to just… not vote. Didn’t like the people running but they were all mostly the same in my eyes. “Do I want this rich old white dude or that rich old white dude”

    I didn’t even bother.

    Then a rich old white dude came around that was actually measurably worse than the other rich old white dudes. So I had to start voting against him.

    It sucks. I want to go back to not caring.