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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • To be fair about most American’s never leaving the country, it’s a big country. You can spend literal days driving from one side to the other.

    If you asked the average American, “What’s the furthest you’ve traveled?” That distance will most likely exceed the average distance traveled by someone from, say, Germany.

    The German could have been to half a dozen countries, and never gone outside of Continental Europe.












  • There was Arithmancy, the Harry Potter wiki says that it was using numbers to predict the future. It was an elective and Harry didn’t take it.

    The only other class that would have had math would be Astronomy, which was a required class for all students. The students are required to make star charts and such… Seems like rote memorization was the only thing taught. The wink says that the end of year 5 tests was filling in a blank star chart from memory.

    They might get some English pointers in the dozens of essays they wrote, but since essays are graded on the length of the scroll… it becomes questionable.



  • That’s not how it works. Making money today is the only thing these ghouls care about, ruining a company or brand is just dandy because they won’t be holding the bag when it bursts. They’ll have passed it to someone else. Someone else who will then work to gut the company even more before selling it to someone who will gut it and close it down.

    And nothing of real value will have been made, but lots of rich asshats will be slightly richer.


  • The Mississippi River sees constant river boat traffic.

    Those smaller, feeder rivers often aren’t big enough to support a barge.

    The Jones act mostly applies to ocean shipping, in fact, I don’t think the Jones act even applies to river traffic.

    To be fair, the Jones act consistently fucks over Puerto Rico, and should probably be scrapped or amended, it just doesn’t stop river traffic on rivers that can’t actually support said traffic.