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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • We have the baby boomers on the edge of dying. They are afraid of it, but there is nothing that can be done - so those fears shift to other things that “could” be dealt with.

    -Immigrants destroying the culture they grew up in (that culture went away for other reasons),

    -Gays and trans people being happy (The closeted Senator Graham saying there is no happiness in real life - why did gays of old have to suffer and hide if it was all for not?),

    -The worst economy in the history of the US! (They are in their 80s, don’t have a job, and running out of money, so it is bad for them)

    -Small town on the edge of dying (because there is no jobs or amenities because they didn’t want them in their town)

    Trump speaks their insecurities and offers a path to fix things that no other politician dares to go down: “Burn the system to the grown and the people you hate will be hurt”. Because modern Republicans care more about hurting the ones they hate than helping themselves, either because of self hate or a illusion that they won’t get hurt in the process.








  • Do you really think anyone competent will work for Trump? The first time around he tried to deport dreamers, didn’t end the program the right way, and they didn’t get deported for his entire term. He would sometimes forget to sign bills he had photo ops with. He lead a group of rioters to the capital, told them where the electoral votes were, and they ended up taking selfies and Nancy Pelosi’s podium. And these were his intelligent supporters.


  • Everyone is talking about society or physiology stuff. That is just things that might get humans.

    Stars going super-nova is the real great filter. Our sun is 4.6 billion years old. Life started 4 billion years ago. In 4 billion years, the sun goes supernova. We are halfway to the end of the earth.

    Smaller stars last longer, but have smaller ranges that life can exist in - and planets tend to move in or out in their orbits. Bigger stars have giant habitable zones - but some large stars born when humans took their first steps are in their last decades of life. You couldn’t get from the pyramids to NASA in that time, never mind the 4 billion years it took to get to humans.





  • I’m not sure this counts as a single shot, but I’ve always felt that I could fix “Raya and the last dragon” with one flashback right after Sisu shows Raya her petrified brothers and sisters.

    Context: Sisu’s plans up until this point have always revolved around ‘give the bad guy a present’ which never works, while Raya is ‘action girl’ and all her plans are fighting or running. The last shard of the dragon crystal to ‘save the world’ is in the hands of ‘evil girl’ who caused the ‘magic apocalypse’. After this scene, Sisu convinces Raya to go with the give ‘evil girl’ a gift plan, which get Sisu killed, then later after Raya and ‘evil girl’ fight, she does a 180 and gives up all the dragon shards to her and ‘evil girl’ saves the day. So the gift thing has no resolution, and the 180 is weird. How do you fix it?

    Flashback: Sisu loves giving gifts to humans. One time she gives a gift and humans fight over it. This causes the evil greed clouds to attack for the first time. Other dragons make gem, entrust Sisu with it “because the one who caused it should be the one to fix it”. Flashback over, Sisu says “and I will, even if I die trying.” Bam, death foreshadowing, ‘evil girl’ saves the day foreshadowing, reason WHY Raya does a 180 at the end, and also lore on evil greed cloud things.