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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s about $3.69 to $3.99 right now around Cincinnati, OH. Gas in California is probably (if not actually) the highest priced gas in the country.

    But yeah the cost of everything going up since Trump took office has sucked. This war in Iran feels totally pointless, we’ve managed to hurt ourselves and kill a bunch of innocent people and all for what? Like honestly it’s beyond idiotic, it’s cruel and literally weakens our position on the world stage.

    There is zero incentive for Iran to allow free transit through the strait of Hormuz, now or in the foreseeable future. Even when this all ends it’s not going to go back to like it was before.

    Sorry went on a tangent there but yeah gas prices being this high because our president and current administration are fucking morons is so dumb.



  • To be fair there’s a lot of crypto currency that was/still is a scam. Also I’d argue that BTC, and crypto in general, still is being treated as a security that’s backed by thin air. Ie: it’s a speculative asset that doesn’t actually have any value.

    There’s nothing really stopping BTC from crashing hard. It’s so wild to me how people treat it.

    I could have bought bitcoin too when it was worth pennies but there was no way to know which crypto the whales were going to bet on for the pump and dump. It’s a missed opportunity but rest assured there’s plenty of universes where Bitcoin amounted to nothing.















  • I think it’s more like, any job you have in a capitalist system (which we live in especially in the USA) will result in enriching the borgeousie more than the laborers. Exceptions may apply for worker owned businesses but those are few and far between and even then usually there is still a hierarchy for pay that can be rather unequal in distribution.

    Anyways idk that’s not really a question that has a simple answer but that’s just something off the top of my head.

    For a funnier example, let’s say I wanted to murder you and a few other peeps just to have a good time. Society would prevent that through laws and punishment, of course the real thing stopping me is the hassle and chance I could get imprisoned and my own moral compass but it’s just a pithy example of where free will and society could intersect.

    There’s an infinite number of examples of how society curbs individual behaviors.