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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I actually have another one… my now father in law, back when I first meet my wife, got me an empty dvd case of some random D movie nobody has ever heard of from the dollar bin at Walmart.

    Somehow the dvd was plastic wrap sealed and still had the $1 sticker on it, but I later opened the case up and it was empty.

    I initially took offense, because it really seemed like an insult, but it turns out that 14 Christmas holidays later and he still gets weird random useless stuff for everyone for Christmas, it wasn’t just me.








  • I feel like it’s more than that…

    When I switched to electric 7 or 8 years ago, I really didn’t like it. It was super uncomfortable and tickled my mouth.

    I just powered through it because I was told that I would get used to it.

    Indeed I did get used to it and quickly began to feel that I had never actually properly brushed my teeth before going electric.

    Part of what helps is the little extra pulse every 30 seconds and auto shut off after two minutes. Really keeps you on track with 30 seconds in each quadrant of your mouth.

    Two minutes is a long time so having the timer built into the toothbrush is super helpful.

    Only concern to note is that applying too much pressure and/or using the maximum vibration setting can be bad for your gums and cause recession.

    Be very gentle with the electric toothbrush so that you do not cause any excessive gum recession.

    Once you get used to electric, a conventional toothbrush will seem archaic.











  • Hippie 1: Right now we’re proving we don’t need corporations. We don’t need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.

    Hippie 2: Yeah, we’ll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people’s safety.

    Kyle: You mean like a baker and a cop?

    Hippie 1: No no, can’t you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?

    Kyle: Yeah, it’s called a town.

    Hippie 1: You kids just haven’t been to college yet. But just you wait, this thing is about to get HUGE.


  • Rent for single family properties is higher than the mortgage of that same property. In theory. So ideally no single family property should be rented as its purely a parasite relationship. Again, in theory.

    The problem with this theory is that it’s wrong across the board.

    Take a look at houses on realtor dot com or the like… they show estimated mortgage and also estimated rental value. Single family homes typically rent for far less than a new mortgage on the same property, partly because housing prices are so inflated and partly because as you pointed out, someone who got a mortgage on a property 10 years ago who is renting it out now may be renting it out based on the cost of ownership 10 years ago.

    Secondly, your conclusion doesn’t follow even if your premise was correct.

    Let’s pretend sfh rental prices were higher than the cost of a new mortgage on the same property. How would that then translate to ‘people who can only afford to rent shouldn’t be allowed the dignity of living in a sfh and instead should have no other option but to live in a shared housing environment… how does that follow? How could you possibly think the answer is an increased limitation on what people can rent?

    The real solution is getting rid of corporate ownership of more than say maybe 20 properties at a time.

    I would certainly prefer having hundreds of thousands of small time landlords with 5 or 10 properties, as opposed to dozens of billionaire corporation who each own tens of thousands of properties… be they sfh or condos or whatever is irrelevant.