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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • My line of thought for this is that stressing about whether you’ll have enough money to cover rent won’t make it any easier to cover rent. Happiness is more about mindset than circumstances

    No… but if you don’t worry about it at all, you won’t pay it. You need to be able to pay it. Which means having to get money. Which means having to do things. Which means having to plan. Which means thinking about the future.

    I do not see how your millionaires explanation is in any way relevant, as they are still won’t be living from paycheck to paycheck.






  • This has the side effect of banning cheap plastic trash in your cheap chocolate

    You really want to do the whole American vs European chocolate thing?

    Because Euroean doesn’t taste like vomit, unlike all US chocolates.

    The food act the ban is based on is from 1938, whereas this import ban is from like the 90’s, so I’m more leaning to some capitalist shenanigans to block a competitor from a market idk. Although they were illegal even before that based on the law from 38, someone had imported some and were selling them and then they did the recall and import ban

    And theyre serious about enforcing that

    In January 2011, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) threatened a Manitoba resident with a 300 Canadian dollar fine for carrying one egg across the US border into Minnesota. In June 2012, CBP held two Seattle men for two and a half hours after discovering six Kinder Surprise eggs in their car upon returning to the US from a trip to Vancouver. According to Joseph Cummings of Seattle, Washington, one of the men detained, a border guard quoted the potential fine as “$2,500 per egg”.















  • I get the vague impression that this is meant to subtly influence western society into believing that the masses aren’t truly people,

    Well, people can think two things at once. And whilst people may think that non-fleshed out nameless movie henchmen “aren’t truly people”, I don’t think they apply the same standard to random people irl.