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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • They’re blaming Hispanics as well, and black men. Basically anyone except the only group that did vote for Trump with over 50% of vote share: white people.

    Never mind that the Democratic party could’ve easily turned out the vote from their base by delivering or even promising anything of the below for them:

    • taxing the rich
    • enforcing anti-trust laws as a way to keep prices for anything low
    • raising the minimum wage
    • forgiving student loans for everyone instead of dicking around with various rules to figure out who’s deserving
    • child tax credit

    And for the love of God, stop passing laws that will only kick in after the election. Forcing producers to drop insulin prices was great, but it only kicks in next year, so now Trump gets to take credit for that one, same as how he put his signature on the pandemic checks that the Democratic Congress forced him to pass.








  • It was already a challenge back in those days. I ran the Nokia N9 for a while, and within a year it went from being amazing at messaging due to its messaging app mixing different XMPP providers in one interface (Google Talk, Facebook Messenger, SMS, etc in a single interface) to everyone in the industry suddenly giving up on that and only supporting in-app messaging.

    There were valiant attempts to create open source versions of popular apps, but those efforts were always intentionally sabotaged by those providers.