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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Coupled with the fact that for decades the American federal workforce has been lambasted as lazy, inefficient, and a downright drain on society by the right-wing media, is it any wonder that the christofacists that are currently in charge have an overwhelming disdain for federal employees?

    Even most of the general population at least partially feels this way, “Good enough for government work” is a common phrase I hear. Like every large corporation, you are going to have those that are lazy, incompetent, or negligent, that’s inescapable. But by and large the government is filled with people who have dedicated their lives in the civilian service of the American people, usually accepting less pay as opposed to their private counterparts.

    Cutting fraud, waste, and abuse is a good thing in theory, but the government already has means and methods for this, not the least of which is their own employees, who know that we are using public money, collected from our fellow citizens(and ourselves!), and entrusted to us to make the best use. It is genuinely frustrating and disheartening to see the people we work for day in and day out assume the worst about us, and then vote for the corrupt morons that are now running the government. They complain about fraud, waste, and abuse, AND LOOK AT WHO YOU JUST VOTED INTO OFFICE!!

    Sorry, it’s just so frustrating to be treated this way, to be looked at as part of the problem, when I go to work, to do stuff to help my neighbors and family so they can have a functioning government.












  • Not tourist per se, but I live next to a large state university, and it’s either the college kids themselves or their families doing the stupid shit. It’s very wooded in my area while still being “suburbany”, so we get those people admiring the foliage in the fall.

    In the winter when it snows, for a lot of the students and their families it’s their first time driving in it and it shows. I suppose I can cut them some slack for that though if they’ve never had to drive in it.

    Anyway, it’s just mainly oblivious drivers, that are either attempting to find their way around so they drive extra slow or stop suddenly in the middle of the road, or the go ripping through the neighborhood because of the traffic on the main roads. Like, come on, there are kids playing and such, you can go 50mph through the neighborhoods around here with the number of kids playing. I’ve proposed multiple times for speed bumps in the neighborhoods around the university, but the council says “it will impede the flow of traffic” ?!? That’s the fucking point, morons! Ugh.



  • The verse you are thinking of is from the New Testament, Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.”

    Edit: While also not a biblical scholar, I don’t think this verse is condemning what the good Reverend is doing here, rather the overly pompous and egregious prayers and acts that some “christians” feel like they have to do to gather as much attention to themselves as possible. Case in point; any time I would go out to a restaurant with my parents, they would make a big show of bowing their heads and praying loudly over their food. Things we didn’t do at home growing up.