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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • What’s frustrating is that these are the costs of corruption. This, or that time they sabotaged the postal system in order to try and stifle mail-in voting. Taking a system that’s working, and making it not work any longer, doesn’t make things better for anyone. It’s just overhead! It’s paying to knock down a functioning building, leaving nothing in its place, and then paying every month to maintain a fence around the rubble.

    No one benefits from this, except some people that shouldn’t be in power get to stay in power, so they can keep doing stuff like this to stay in power, and no other person sees any growth, improvement, or value. That would cut into margins.







  • Not to mention, given the labels on that one map, they seem to think Google satellite view is, like, a live camera feed from space or something they just overlay roads and borders and stuff onto?

    And that it would mean anything at all for the map to just suddenly have a big snake in it unexpectedly…




  • The difference is that a tip is “you’re already getting paid to do your job, why would I pay you to do your job?”. Whereas this is “you gave me this for free, so maybe if I make a bunch of money I could show appreciation for that gift” or pay-it-forward so the next guy can also get a free start, etc.

    And yes I know they’re are busted places on this Earth where basically servers don’t already get paid to do their job and are thus reliant on tips as income, but that’s a different problem…