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Cake day: March 21st, 2024

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  • I fix my computers. I fix my car. I’ve done some electrical. No plumbing. And I recently biopsied a cyst that my doctor eyeballed and said was non cancerous and charged me $40 for nothing a year ago. It began annoying me a year later, and I’m stubborn and hate to go the doctor, and that guy was an ass. I’m ok with being called an old fart though. I’m also probably more optimistic about future generations. I don’t think we’re doomed, I remember being a collasal idiot, even as recently as last week, so I give other a little grace.




  • This is how I feel about several acronyms at work! There’s a three letter acronym recently that was coming up a lot on a meeting. I had to search for a definition to understand the discussion. The meaning is fully encompassed by just using one four letter English word that nobody past kindergarten will be confused about. But this acronym is everywhere! Also, the single word has fewer syllables than the stupid acronym, so it’s faster to say. Not by much, but it just adds insult to injury every time I hear it.








  • I did read the article and the summary conclusion you presented is not the argument, nor what is at stake. Also, wild information ads are already demonstrably “OK too”.

    1. The ad in question is not false, but others around Florida certainly are.

    I was pretty confused by this article because I don’t watch TV and haven’t seen the ad. I have seen billboard ads that say something like “Amendment 4 will allow abortion until birth.” Which is absolutely misinformation. According to the article, the ad that the surgeon general is trying to block has a woman who says that the current abortion ban would block her from life saving care. While the surgeon general is saying this is false, it unfortunately is true in practice even if not in the spirit of what is written. At the end of the day, doctors have to interpret a vague law to determine what care the patient will receive from them. Florida has not published information on maternal mortality rates since overturning roe, but Georgia has proven that the restrictive vague laws result in maternal deaths due to a lack of access to life saving abortions.

    1. it can’t be shut down because it is protected speech.

    When you disagree with other’s political statements, you lawfully respond by making your own case – not silencing the other side. Public discourse.