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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It’s always bugged me that cities use this excuse but then they pave roadways and parking lots with drainage basins that shoot that water directly into the nearest river as fast as possible creating more impact than if every household had ten of these barrels.

    Plus a lot of the time people collect rainwater to water their gardens instead of using city water so it’s just delaying the input of the water into the system.





  • Canada is also America’s largest trading partner.

    America had $357 billion dollars worth of imports from Canada in 2023, if they introduce a 25% tarriff Americans will pay $446 billion instead because it’s not like you’ll get all that stuff anywhere else for cheaper since America is going to put tariffs on practically every other country they trade with apparently.

    Corporations spend billions on the current infrastructure and trade routes and logistics, they will not uproot everything and go through the pains of firing everyone then moving to America and retraining because of a short term loss. American administrations are fickle, many of them will simply wait out the 4 years hoping it will return to normal then. If it doesn’t then maybe they might consider it then but for the next 4 years Americans are going to be paying a shitload more for anything that’s not made in America.

    American businesses will also find it a lot more difficult to sell their products out of the country when those countries retaliate with tarriffs against them.



  • People don’t become conservative as they age, they become conservative as they accumulate wealth which in the past has typically correlated with age. Once they have wealth they want to protect it.

    Nowadays people don’t accumulate wealth as easily so it takes longer before they develop more conservative views if at all.

    It’s an “I got mine, screw everyone else” tendency.