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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I think the US is just bitter. They had a thing going there; Castro ended it. Cuban government took US assets. Cuban government would later partner with the soviets, including the whole nuke thing.

    I was really hopeful the Obama policies would turn Cuba into just another Caribbean island, but here we are. I don’t know much.

    Edit: So in short, they’re really close to the US and not aligned with the US politically, which is a problem. And you might say the same about Canada or Mexico but it’s on a completely different scale.







  • Anytime I get my kids a snack or a bowl of cereal to cap off the night, I almost certainly take the dad tax (which in and of itself is a joke), but generally tell them that I checked and it was not poison.

    I also hide and scare everyone in my family, but that one is just for me. Sometimes I say boo without hiding, and that’s for them.








  • Speed limits, at least on state and federal roads, are often governed by a set of rules that basically look at sight distances, entrances to the roadway, and some other factors. So there are rules to them. I think the highway speed limits are generally fine.

    Putting all that aside, entitlement is absolutely a thing, and this post does a good job of nailing it. There’s a speed limit. If you go over it, you are taking a risk. If you get pulled over for 70 in a 65 and you bitch about it, you’re an entitled idiot. I say this as someone who exceeds the speed limit, it’s just how things operate over her. But if I get tagged for doing so, I will eat it, because I was knowingly breaking the law. Now, if it were more regularly enforced, I might not do it, but it seems to be that 20% above the posted limit is acceptable, and so that’s how I operate (except I do 25 in residential areas because there is no reason to speed on streets people are walking and kids are riding bikes).