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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Two questions.

    1. Do you think that this barrage of personal attacks sways anyone to your side or solves anything at all?

    2. What is your alternative? Your solution? Vote 3rd party? Green? Libertarian? Vote for Trump? Don’t vote at all? Please. Share your wisdom so that we may learn! You shit on me for merely participating in an election, thereby making everything that happened after personally and wholly my fault, I guess. What would you have had me do otherwise? How the fuck do you suggest we fix things, smartass? Or are you just here to rage and attack and be completely useless?




  • At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decades after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.













  • That always did confuse me about the Triwizard Tournament. The only task that could be spectated was the first one with the Dragons. Task two spectators got to watch a murky lake for an hour and and the final task they stared at a wall of hedges.

    Surely they could have had some sort of magical projections of the champions. Even if not like a live video feed (because of course the only moving pictures in the Wizarding world are the semi-sentient ones in the paintings and newspapers), surely they could have had some sort of progress tracker like checkpoints or a live map of their movements (like the maurader’s map, but less advanced) so you could at least see some sort of indication placement in those races other than the take off and then their arrival back at the start.

    I’m not even the spectator type but wizards are really bad at sports. Quidditch is so unbalanced the recent video game had to change the scoring system to make it less broken. And one of their more populat schoolyard games shoots stinking shit all over 50 percent of the particpants. Their candy is a bit ridiculous too. Who wants an acid pop that literally burns a hole in your tongue or a fucking feces flavored jelly bean?






  • First, you missed the part where the actual price now is not 4 dollars? He lied. It was 3 dollars, per the sign right behind him.

    Second, national inflation is calculated off a broad spectrum of goods and services providing insight into the relative buying power of tthe dollar itself, so it is not missing the point to compare based on the adjusted buying power of the dollar. It is a more accurate reflection of the true rise in cost of this individual good comparing how its rise in price has outpaced the average rise in costs across the board. It reflects the extra pressures put on the egg market from the avian flu outbreaks and possible other factors rather than the general inflation of the entire economy.

    Third, if Vance’s goal was to demonstrate that inflation in general had gone up tremendously and blame Harris specifically for that (despite how ridiculous that is), using eggs as a specific measure of the effect of their policies when the price hike on eggs have significantly outpaced other goods and is clearly due to non-policy related circumstances outside anyone’s control is obviously disingenuous. And that was before he lied and tried to add another 30+ percent on top of the already inflated price.