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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Hey! USA Avocado industry would be thriving if Mexico wasn’t shipping all theirs in without a tariff.

    But a sable genius once said. “What we have is a thing called the gasoline. We have gasoline. We have so much gasoline, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have gasoline. So why are we making a product that they dominate? They’re going to dominate.”

    This was in reply to the question “How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?”.

    I think you can apply the same logic here. “What we have is a thing called the corn. We have corn. We have so much corn, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have corn. So why are we making a product [avocados] that they dominate? They’re [Mexico] going to dominate.”





  • You can donate blood in 20 minutes. It takes an hour plus to donate plasma

    Am I going to sit in a chair for an hour plus without any compensation? Maybe once or twice here and there. But you can donate plasma at least twice a week.

    It requires two donations for a single unit. If you donate once and don’t donate the second, then your first donation is unusable. You have to get them to donate twice.

    When I was donating plasma, it paid about $75 for each donation. 50 first, 100 for second. The money is pretty good. $300 a month is a lot for a lot of people.

    If you didn’t compensate people for plasma donations, a lot wouldn’t do it. They currently need more people to donate.

    Plasma “donation” is a good thing.



  • Fear of losing basic income is a great crime deterrent.

    Are you going to steal from that gas station if you could lose your basic monthly check for 20+ years?

    You think kids would drive drunk if you told them that if they were caught, they would lose their basic income for life? Most think it’s a slap on the wrist, maybe some community service, IF they get caught.



  • I had to look up what the summoner’s tale was. I can say this from memory.

    "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,

    The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

    And bathed every veyne in swich licóur

    Of which vertú engendred is the flour;

    Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth

    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

    The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,

    And smale foweles maken melodye,

    That slepen al the nyght with open ye,

    So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,

    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

    And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,

    To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

    And specially, from every shires ende

    Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,

    The hooly blisful martir for to seke,

    That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke."


  • You can say good morning with an infection that makes it asking. Like if I looked over at you on the bus and go “good morning?”. You’d know to reply that you were indeed having a good one. Same as if I said “rough morning?”

    I would reply “Just saying”

    It’s totally conditioned to say it. I come from where the response to “How you doing?” Is “Good, you?”, “Good”

    If someone just said “Morning” to you, you’ve been conditioned to think something is wrong or they are having a bad day more than likely.

    First impressions matter, and the first word out of your mouth better be good





  • We administer retirement, disability, survivor, and family benefits, and enroll individuals in Medicare.

    Social Security provides retirement income for almost every American worker.

    Ssa.gov

    An investment fund is a supply of capital belonging to numerous investors, used to collectively purchase securities, while each investor retains ownership and control of their own shares.

    Investopedia.com

    The only thing not making it an investment fund is that the government forcefully takes the money and you don’t own the money after it is taken.

    The average person gets the majority of their retirement income from SS.

    Ask the average person what SS is. They will say that it is a retirement fund. What is a retirement fund? An investment fund.

    Social insurance, as conceived by President Roosevelt, would address the permanent problem of economic security for the elderly by creating a work-related, contributory system in which workers would provide for their own future economic security through taxes paid while employed.

    Ssa.gov