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Cake day: January 30th, 2025

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  • Calling them ‘green spaces’ is a bit of a stretch. For one, most golf ranges are privately owned, meaning that visitors have to be members. Second, the effort to keep the lawn regulation height means constant–and I mean constant–maintenance by a small army of groundskeepers.

    A public green space should be: publicly accessible, free of flying hazards and motor vehicles, accessible for wheelchair and stroller use, and useable for community events free of charge.

    I’m surprised no one’s mentioned the volume of agricultural weedkiller and fertilizer that golf courses go through. It doesn’t look like an environmental disaster, but it certainly is.



  • Ex-Mormon here.

    Mormons like to brag that their kids are healthier and smarter because their mothers are guaranteed to have had no exposure to alcohol or secondhand smoke.

    Because of this, there is such a deep culture of shame around even drinking coffee or tea, because it breaks the health code of the religion. It’s treated with the same severity as eating pork if you’re Jewish or Muslim. No, not everyone does it. But the few who do will go to every length possible to hide it. I met a dude who used to call out sick and wear sunglasses and a wig when he bought caffeine pills at the grocery store, and then swap them out for ibuprofen in the glovebox in his car. His wife divorced him over that.

    If he does have FAS, I would bet you $100 right now that the only one who would know would be his mom, and she’ll take that shit to her grave.