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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Funny thing is cars still use right and left (atleast in US) often. Somethings driver vs passenger side. Driver vs passenger doesn’t work everywhere for every car in the world like it does with boats.

    What also might be funny is driver vs passenger could be seen like port and starboard in the future if we get self driving cars. There would be no designated driver side of a car, and every side is a passenger. Just like boats nowadays can port on either side because there are no steering oars needed.


  • Let’s say the gas station worker makes $15 an hour

    Let’s say gas is $3 per gallon

    That means if the gas station worker wasn’t there the gas station could give away 5 gallons of gas for free per hour and still make the same profit.

    Which is better for the whole society? One person making $15 an hour doing a task that 49 other states have no problem doing themselves. Or 1 person from the community getting 5 free gallons of gas every hour?

    If you never stop paying that person $15 an hour, you can never move on to better things.


  • Broken window fallacy

    Destroying people’s ability to pump their gas then “fixing” it with a job program.

    Might as well let people pump their gas and then give the “workers” money and time. Consumers would pay the same and the “workers” still get the same money but extra time to hopefully better themselves rather than being stuck pumping gas for 8 hours a day.

    “Creating jobs” only works when the jobs are needed for the society.

    Creating a job just to justify paying someone is absurd.





  • You can’t check for back feeding.

    Cable coming from house to pole has no power. Electrician goes to hook up wire. Homeowner puts on generator. Electrician gets electrocuted.

    Yes the testing and hooking up could be a small window of time but a fraction of a second after testing is all it takes.




  • Space isn’t really a vacuum

    Wait what?

    Space is a vacuum.

    Could argue it’s not a perfect vacuum. We haven’t created a perfect vacuum on Earth but we have come close.

    If I have a container and remove all the air inside. I have created a vacuum. Not a perfect one, but a simple vacuum.

    If I add rocks to the container. The rocks are now in a vacuum.

    Just like space. Space is a vacuum and there is “rocks” in it.