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Cake day: April 17th, 2019

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  • Also being able to view posts without having to go to the comment section is really good I don’t understand why that needed to go?

    I don’t understand what this means. You can definitely view posts from the home or community pages.

    Also also having to open and close images in list view is rather annoying,

    The list view is a condensed view. Use the card view to see full-size images without having to use the image viewer.



  • Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.

    I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.

    The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.







  • College / university in many countries.

    In the US at least, its become such a parasitic industry, with tuition fees rising exponentially and far exceeding wage rates and job availability, that it accounts for a large portion of most people’s personal debt.

    With so many applicants for so few jobs, a college degree is the new highschool diploma / “minimum requirement” for nearly every job now. 1 / 4 US adults have student loan debt, with an average of 40k in student loans.. Nothing is putting the brakes on degree inflation, tuition, or the student loan industry.

    The US federal government also makes a killing off of student loan interest fees, most of which is going to the MIC and Israel.

    They’ve made the product they’re selling you (a degree), both required, and extremely expensive; the ultimate goal of any parasitic industry. Its a dream for state and private colleges, the US government and its military, and a nightmare for people either without a job, or chained to their desks for fear of losing their job and getting further behind on loan payments.









  • US workers are experiencing a 2008-style economic crisis (for at least a few years now), with low hiring, high rents, high evictions, and layoffs, and its just completely ignored by US state media.

    They built in enough protections to isolate the real economy (jobs and living expenses) from the fake one (stock market and financial speculation), and re-defined the terms used for economic health, to be able to completely ignore it.