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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I always vote, local, state, and federal. I would never vote for candidates who specifically are out to destroy things, or do austerity measures. I also don’t vote by party, but by values.

    Because few people vote in my area, my votes have enormous impacts on society at large, which feels uniquely powerful.

    I love the woods a lot, so I voted for a candidate that wanted to preserve them. My singular vote alone counted as 2% of the entire state, and the pro-Muir candidate won. And that was me alone, I also talked to friends and family about voting, which they did.











  • I remember interning at a place during uni, where something had broken, and a handful of 40 year olds asked me, a probably 19 or 21 year old intern, if I could fix it, as nobody else at the company knew how. (I had recently learned how through my classes)

    That was the definite moment, along with a few others where I suddenly realized that adults didn’t always know what they were doing.

    But it was especially present at that internship. Outwardly, I was ready for the challenge, but inwardly, I was reeling that a company with decent profits and 100+ personnel was entirely relying on someone not too far out of highschool.

    If they were relying on me for that, what else were people relying on at other companies, organizations, even governments? It made me really realize how ad-libbed our world is, having thought professionals in every sector had been firmly in control of the world as I had known it, up to that point.




  • Yes, extremely important right now, too. They’re pretty much the only thing that’s stopping CWD, a prion disease cousin to Mad Cow, from spreading across north America in wild game and bush meat. Wolves are immune to it, interestingly enough. And they go after sick animals exhibiting odd, “zombie like” behavior due to CWD.

    I pray to God it doesn’t jump from bush meat to humans, or into cattle and farming.