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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • It’s mocking Trump and MAGA’s fantasy. For the workers it’s providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren’t going to be productive.

    As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don’t benefit them in any meaningful way.

    But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.











  • In the UK it’s called the Dragons’ Den. I mean I would be happy to watch some billionaires being fed to sharks, dragons or lions. Perhaps that could be the surprise element of the show, which species comes out of the gate. Kinda like Cabin In The Woods.

    Edit: we could have people standing round the edge of the arena holding home made placards offering advice: ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!’ ‘Go Tim’ ‘We’re all in it together!’.



  • Well Nixon launched the war on drugs because, genius that he was, he noticed that a lot of people who used it were either from ethnic minorities or were left wing in their politics so by passing anti-drug legislation and enforcing it selectively he could effectively criminalise his political enemies, which included black people because he was one of those ‘my skin is my uniform’ kind of guys.


  • I got curious. Here’s the actual story:

    VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. – Michigan State Police say that legalization >of marijuana is making their jobs difficult.

    Officers say that they are able to smell marijuana at traffic stops but are not clear on how law enforcement should handle each situation.

    Police are struggling to address reports they receive due to the legality of the substance.

    “We come across a lot of kids that are under 21 that have possession of it and obviously that’s in violation so we seize it and go through the process that way but when we come across people that are 21 and older and actually have it legally that’s where it’s kind of hard to deal with it in that aspect," Michigan State Officer Andrew Jeffrey said.

    Officer Jeffrey says police receive multiple reports of people smoking marijuana but police cannot do anything if they obtained the substance legally and are not underage.