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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • No, it was still their fault. Most of the party was relatively poorly provisioned, and inexperienced at long overland travels. They were warned about how bad the trail was, but chose the advice of the shopkeeper who had never taken the trail over the advice of the men who had actually been on it.

    They reached the Great Salt Lake too late in the year, but still elected to press ahead regardless. Once they reached the lush valley before the pass they again decided to press on, despite it being late October. And so they got trapped. They had no-one skilled at fishing or trapping, and they hunted too close to the camp, so their gunshots scared away all the bigger game. Honestly it’s impressive any of them survived. If they hadn’t found those cabins they probably wouldn’t have.










  • And where in my previous post did I call you stupid?

    You speak of mental health days in a derogatory way, as if you find the very idea that people should take care of their mental as well as physical health offensive, for reasons I don’t understand.

    I’m saying that your mocking statement about taking days off for such things should in fact be something we do, and something we should find acceptable to do.


  • I absolutely guarantee you one of those things is not like the others. Period pain can be truly debilitating, especially for a person with endometriosis. It is totally worth time off.

    Also, I find your insinuation that women take time off for ‘low mood’ and ‘being irritable’ frequently—as opposed to men—rather sexist and offensive, not to mention not reflective of reality.

    However, I do like how you inadvertently stumbled into the idea that we should all have more sick days and mental health should be included in the definition of ‘health’. Taking time off for a mental ‘breather’ should be normalized in our society. I also think higher-mental-stress jobs like 911 dispatcher should get more mental health off-time.






  • The line is usually ‘where the majority party in Congress thinks it is’. That’s why even though they got impeached, none of those presidents left; look at which party was in charge at the time.

    Make no mistake; the Republicans could have him out on his ass and facing criminal charges before you could blink if they wanted to. They don’t want to, because he’s doing exactly what they want him to do. 40-odd percent of Americans also think this is great.

    And so, yes, he could shoot someone in Times Square and totally get away with it.

    That’s the real problem. Trump and fascism are symptoms, not the cause. If the disease wasn’t there, like it wasn’t with Nixon (or at least, it was just starting to develop then), none of this would be an issue.