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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • You can shoot an AR-15 pattern rifle, including the military versions, with the stock up against your nuts and it won’t hurt. The recoil is very low because the power is very low and the system of operation absorbs a lot of the energy, combined with the weight of the rifle means it is soft shooting. The stock doesn’t need to touch your shoulder for you to be accurate with effect out to 50 yards or more so long as you do your part.

    Honestly, just having it pulled against any part of your body with a decent view of the sight is enough to ring steel or put holes in paper.


  • In current mainstream thought gender =/= sex.

    So your second point should be phrased “Is changing sex also (soon to be) possible”, as sex is genetic and gender is a concept.

    Maybe with some radical gene therapy sex could be changed, but I imagine that to be a rather long and unpleasant process if physical changes happened. It would probably be more feasible to make a clone with the different sex and then transplant consciousness. That just raises further questions like if you died and is that still you. Probably before that is viable we will be uploaded to computer systems to escape the environmental effects of our actions and your avatar will be up to your whims.











  • I would be concerned about having wait staff and other tipped positions be paid a livable minimum wage because it may cause people to stop tipping, which would result in a pay cut. There wouldn’t be the argument “They don’t even make minimum, I need to tip them.”, it would become “They make 22.50 an hour, I don’t need to tip them.”

    When I worked as a delivery driver, I did well only because of tips. If I was paid minimum wage and people stopped tipping, I would have been fucked.

    If they get paid a livable minimum and tips are still just as generous, that would be a huge win for people that could use it.