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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • I played a “national security defense game” as Bibi a few years ago.

    It was really frustrating, because I was fucked from the beginning. Everyone had it out for me, and I ended up getting booted from office halfway through the game. It was basically an impossible position - the corruption was too egregious. (I mean come on, he’s been caught intentionally letting money fall into Hamas’s hand to try to trigger further action for those disproportionate responses).

    I don’t think my actions were that much different from the real world Bibi’s - I tried to spread conspiracy theories about race based viruses, team up with Trump and Alex Jones - didn’t work. Seems to be working IRL, unfortunately.






  • I was trying to find some Cornish hens at Walmart today - no luck, but the chicken prices in general didn’t seem higher.

    I wonder if it could be related to the difference between the way broiler versus layers are treated and kept. I think a broiler you usually kill after three months - they’re bred to get huge fast, and their bodies will literally fall apart if you allow them to live too long. (Volunteered for a while at a vegan rescue that took in chickens that fell off trucks, etc - they’d end up losing lots of feathers and looked terrible as they got older).

    Layers I think are going to be kept in the conditions most conducive to spreading disease. You’re not killing them quickly, you’re trying to cram as many in a tiny space and keeping them alive as long as they’ll continue laying.

    TL;DR: I suspect that we kill off the chickens we eat too fast for the disease to spread.









  • Ah, but online high schools/credit recovery. The French Revolution is often covered in a fifteen minute video with four multiple choice questions and a short response (which is almost always turned in with an obviously AI generated answer, and marked with 100% because there’s no longer an expectation that a teacher be qualified to teach their subject - a high school diploma is enough in Oklahoma)

    I’d met with a high schooler over zoom (thirty minutes once a week was the requirement) - “hey, tell me what you thought about that American Civil War unit you just completed?” - and they wouldn’t be able to name the century the war happened, had no idea who Abraham Lincoln was, couldn’t name the Confederacy - hell, didn’t recognize that the American Civil War happened in the United States.

    My current role as a tutor (because most high schools would rather have an unqualified high school grad that a transsexual union member with a masters degree - and tbh, getting a school bomb threats on the off chance that LibsOfTikTok targets me is not a risk I feel I can expose others too) shocks me. You have long term subs that don’t understand the pre algebra concepts teaching Algebra 2 and Pre Calc. (Every time I hear the term “cross multiply” I cringe in preparation for the horror I’m about to see)

    But yes - education is 100% that bad in southern states.