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Cake day: February 3rd, 2025

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  • Wasn’t my cup of tea personally but off top of my head the US sitcom The Middle is pretty solidly working-class focused, or at least from what I remember. Also thank you for putting this to words, I feel the same way.

    This is exactly why I hated live-action Disney Channel and Nickelodeon shows/movies growing up in the 2000s starting with Hannah Montana.

    I was never able to articulate why I was repulsed by those series and was considered a contrarian little weirdo, lol. /rant








  • If it’s any perverse consolation people believed those stupid fucking conspiracies long before the internet shoved their idiocy in our faces.

    I grew up in a household with those conspiracies, including but not limited to Illuminati, wrist chips, and other flavors of end-of-times insanity. Grown adults spewing that straight faced made me lose my trust in them.

    I also grew up playing the game and understood it was fully fabrication, but also a commentary just like every other science fiction work.

    Idiots are not new, just louder now.




  • Per the Wikipedia article:

    It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.[38][39][40] In reality, farmers have been one of the strongest lobbying groups against DST since it was first implemented.[38][39][40] The factors that influence farming schedules, such as morning dew and dairy cattle’s readiness to be milked, are ultimately dictated by the sun, so the clock change introduces unnecessary challenges.[38][40][41]

    TL:DR for the rest of the history and rationale: Most of this was rich people wanting more time for their personal hobbies, other people’s sleep and health be damned.