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Cake day: December 18th, 2024

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  • I mean… it’s not, quite nature… but a massive cornfield, surrounded by more cornfields, surrounded by more cornfields.

    One of my relatives is a farmer and I remember sitting on his porch and hearing absolutely nothing, nothing but corn. His neighbors grew corn, his neighbor’s neighbors grew corn. It was just, pure corn stalks. Everywhere.

    No bugs chirping

    No birds flapping

    No squirrels running around

    No cars on the road

    No planes in the sky

    Just wind through fucktons of corn. It was so surreal. It was the closest thing I’ve ever heard to total silence. It was like living in a barren wasteland but everything was green, with endless food. It was both chill and unsettling all at the same time.



  • Biden was the first president since LBJ who actually gave some of a shit about the working class

    … like, even in your defense of Biden, he only gave some of a shit. Not even a full one.

    Joking aside, I think you need to think long and hard as to why you can’t just say “He was great president.” You’re not comparing him to LBJ. Not comparing his actions to Biden’s or his cabinet to Biden, or his bills to Biden. You’re literally one step above saying “Well Biden has at least done something since the time of LBJ” That’s a VERY low bar, may as well just be the floor.

    Basically I think he failed to realize that nobody gives a shit if the people at the very bottom end of the scale are making way more money

    Where is that in your link? Is that your jobs an unemployment sections? That’s not the poorest of the poor. The unemployment numbers often don’t reflect people who are homeless. They’re woefully inept in a lot of ways. It also clashes with the “Record high after record high on Wall Street” section.

    corruption and inaction is going to hamper whoever the president is, whether it be Biden or Bernie Sanders or Che Guevara. How you solve that problem, I don’t know. But certainly, throwing one of them who did seem to moderately care about the working class unapologetically to the wolves, denying he did anything at all, and bashing him at every opportunity, isn’t exactly going to help.

    Verdant Banana’s not throwing Biden under the bus though. The only people in this article are Abby Vesoulis and Faiz Shakir. If anybody is being thrown it’s them.

    If anything, you and Banana seem to agree that corruption and inaction is going to hamper the DNC and don’t know how to solve it. Banana just has given up hope it ever will.





  • Depends on where, the midwest can be very indirect. To the point where it’s often mocked. We’re also very nice, and the thick accent Minnesota is known for is often played up and exagerated for comedic effect. You gotta go pretty far north in order to hear the accents you hear in Fargo.

    What I do often hear is that Americans can be very curious, especially about foreigners. I think it’s simply because America is massive… it’s genuinely difficult to leave it. Most people don’t have passports, most don’t have the time or funds for a flight out of the country. You will be incredibly unique in a lot of America. Curiosity might get the better of a lot of people and that’ll translate to being more direct.

    Depending on the person you’re talking to that can be good or bad.






  • You know, this is the part that really drives me nuts about this whole thing. A murderer murdered a murderer.

    Murderer A, he’s taken care of. The judicial system will put him in front of a jury, he will be tried. He will be found innocent or guilty. The system handles murderer A.

    Murderer B on the other hand, just screw the laws of humans for a moment, the laws of physics say that he shouldn’t be murdering any more after death, but nope. People are still dying. You would think this is where the system would kick in and start putting a stop to it but nope, corporation is still killing. Hell the meeting murderer B was headed to didn’t even get delayed.


  • What I usually do is think about all the time today when I wanted to be left alone. To be uninterrupted. To just get five minutes to myself.

    Because now, I have it. I have all the time in the world. I can do nothing. I can let my mind wander. No one will interrupt, no one will dump bullshit on me. Countless times today I just wanted a pause button for five minutes and now I have hours to just do nothing.

    Then I wake up and realize “nope, all that time is now gone”. Can’t catch a fuckin break.