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Cake day: March 9th, 2025

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  • The continuing resolution had to be approved by the house before it went to the Senate. Hakeem Jeffries was certainly involved.

    I’ve never been more disappointed in all my life

    Except for when I learned it that both of my parents were malignant, narcissist and neurologically, incapable of perceiving the concept of “love”, but at least they had the good sense not to run for public office.

    You may call that bias, I just say that it’s further motivation to support a pluralistic and equitable democracy















  • I know that Japan has been that way for an extremely long time, so South Korea (which, despite what they would like to admit, shares a great deal in common with Japan) is the same way. Maybe I’m a bit biased because I have never thought about having a family, nor am I in anyway interested in having one, so I don’t really put a lot of thought into “would this be a nice place to live _ with my family_?”

    Nonetheless, culturally ingrained attributes to any country can be extremely difficult to change, even in a long-term. Europe, especially northern Europe, has the best quality of life in the world. Most of the rest of the Europe has started to follow suit (until recently). If I could move anywhere right now, it would be either back to New York, or two, possibly, Sweden or Germany. Although, I admit, the ladder is starting to give me pause recently with the rise of the AfD.

    Why my loyalty, for now, lies with the USA, I’m also disabled and queer. Our government and too many of the people here are hostile to such things, and becoming worse every day.

    The real shame is that I don’t have a marketable job that I can use as a bargaining chip for ex patriation. Although, I hear that Sweden has a lot of ways to work around there, rather Stern immigration roles.

    Perhaps it’s time to look back into that, since the last time I heard about it was about 15 years ago. Still…