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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • The folks who say “modern tools” have never used any other tools except what’s in a hardware store. Power tools just save time. It’s the same shit that we could do thousands of years ago by hand and determination (or elbow grease for those who build character). Machu Pichu was made by people and anyone can go visit it - the city is made of stones the size of cars all fitted together in irregular patterns and joined without mortar. If those “modern tools” folks knew masonry they would understand how incredible it is to build without mortar and have it withstand 400 years in a jungle with no maintenance.

    With enough time and not enough else to do, a village can carve a mountain using sand and water. Fuck modernity. Embrace persistence.






  • So, hold on, this run on sentence covers 3 continents and involves a few different native people that have a connection to a reservoir in Kansas built in the 60s. And that reservoir has a mystery that is causing it to be healthy?

    The Prestor John connection to John the Baptist is the oldest part of this screed and the most easily debunked. The Waconda reservoir is only being talked about because of a comic book. And the Andean people? From the Andes? In South America?

    This poor person has a lot of unfulfilled thoughts and they have matted together into some incoherent whole.



  • The Chinese Malaysians are taking the country more towards China as they are both the biggest neighbor and economy in the area. China also shows constant aggression and Malaysia is doing the weak sycophant move of siding with the bully to protect yourself. Malaysia doesn’t care if their neighbors get eaten and taken over - they just want to be their own country.

    It’s the tragedy of authoritarianism: to not be a target, the party makes others the target - not realizing they are also a target for a later date.


  • So many countries are seeing their birthrate fall and a future with a smaller population is looming. But why struggle and fight it? What is there to gain by cramming more people into the system?

    Here’s a thought: embrace the decline of population. Society definitely should because it will increase wages due to lower worker pool. The only people who are actually scared of lower population are the ones who view that population as expendable. Those same people who are scared of losing the meat shield between them and their wealth are the ones who steered us all into this mess anyway. There is no plan, no future, no continued hope for them to burn through endless resources at our expense.

    Let the population fall. It’s the easiest way to combat climate change.







  • Orangutan “getting on boats” to leave Borneo is a hilarious image. Like Douglas Adams without the literacy.

    This individual would make a good scientist. They are curious, require evidence to challenge claims, will investigate the evidence, and struggles to make sense of it. If they were taught how to perform their investigation, what being thorough means, and how to test their wild guesses.

    This poor person could have made breakthroughs in anthropology or archeology in another life.