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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • My trick is melatonin and PBS YouTube videos, audio only. Ones I’ve seen before.

    The audio is enough to keep my mind from running on it’s own and eventually the melatonin kicks in to take it down while it’s distracted by dinosaurs or whatever.

    Melatonin on it’s own will just make me suffer being tired but not able to rest my mind enough to fall asleep.

    Listening to something interesting like an audiobook will do the same.

    It needs to be something that will catch my attention but also not be something I really want to hear more of.

    Music doesn’t keep my mind from wandering like speech does.


  • Florida here checking in.

    Our government is hard at work on this.

    Check out this pending bill up for vote during the next session: https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/2024/599/billtext/filed/pdf https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/2024/599/billtext/filed/pdf

    Essentially it makes it illegal to be transgender and have a job in government or government adjacent.

    Here is an excert: It is the policy of the state that a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex. This section does not apply to individuals born with a genetically or biochemically verifiable disorder of sex development, including, but not limited to, XX disorder of sex development; XY disorder of sex development; sex chromosome disorder of sex development; XX or XY sex reversal; and ovotesticular disorder.

    An employee or a contractor may not be required, as a condition of employment, to refer to another person using that person’s preferred personal title or pronouns if such personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person’s sex.
    An employee or a contractor may not provide to an employer his or her preferred personal title or pronouns if such preferred personal title or pronouns do not correspond to his or her sex.
    An employee or a contractor may not be asked by an employer to provide his or her preferred personal title or pronouns or be penalized or subjected to adverse personnel action for not providing his or her preferred personal title or pronouns.

    It continues on about not being able to fire people for thinking being gay is a sin and so on, but I don’t want this to be a novel.






  • Alright. This isn’t an attack, honestly.

    You obviously have some sort of chip on your shoulders and an anger management problem.

    You are going to continue to run into this problem in any community you interact with until you address it.

    I really, really recommend you look into anger management counseling.

    Again, I’m not saying this for me. I’m saying it for you.


  • Anytime you are doing any kind of military or police action within a civilian area there is always the risk of unintended civilian harm.

    If police and military forces took this doctorine that any amount of risk is too much then they simply would be unable to operate.

    There has to be a certain amount of acceptable civilian risk and that should be proportional to the threat you are attempting to stop.

    Just to clarify, I’m not advocating that Israel is taking acceptable risks. But I am advocating that those risks will always exist with ANY police or military action and the primary debate is over where the red line of acceptable/unacceptable is.



  • Yes, they are doing a genocide.

    I’m not sure what other options are available at this point though.

    Hamas is extremist to the point where they would be doing a genocide as well if they were in the position to do so.

    People say separate the Hamas from the people, but that’s really hard when the members of Hamas are of the people and have the support of a good percentage of them.

    If Israel invades on foot and Hamas is threatened they can simply fade back into the population and wait to try again. And the general population will support them in doing so.

    The creation of the state of Israel was a mistake and the rise of Hamas is the direct result of decades of apartheid practiced against the Palestinians by the Israeli state.

    … But as the issue stands today, I can’t blame Israel in taking extreme action to end the conflict that’s dragged on for nearly a century now.

    There is no reasonable path to peace. A two state solution would end with the states at war anyway as both states have extreamists who want to genocide the other in government positions.

    And there is no where that would accept the Gaza population as refugees even if you could get them to leave.

    So what’s left?