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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • They already don’t make money off gas

    Their profits are the stuff in the store, the excuse people have for overpaying is that they’re already there.

    We’ll see a lot close, and the ones that remain grow to be basic conscience stores.

    They’ll still have the gas pumps, because it’s expensive to remove them. But new builds will likely just be parking lots instead of pumps.

    The old stations would be what people have to rely on.

    As such the ones on the outskirts would be the ones that close first.

    Last gas stations will be in downtown areas where getting rid of 60 year old pumps wouldn’t gain anymore parking than people parking at the pumps.



  • Cracked in it’s prime was fucking amazing.

    Like, it’s the type of “just stay here” website everyone keeps trying to make.

    On any random day they’d post like an article every 15 minutes. No matter when you needed to kill 15-30 there was something funny and usually informative.

    There was probably 5 years straight I didn’t poop without reading an article on Cracked.

    There’s no other quality stream of content like that since.






  • It’s weird to see people still think taller = healthier when we have decades of research showing that’s almost always the opposite.

    Like, you need proper nutrition to grow to max height, but that’s different for everyone and once you crack 6 feet there’s a bunch of random issues, even significantly higher cancer rates just because there’s more of you for solar radiation to travel thru.

    But mostly biomechanical issues because just increasing the size of everything x% across the board doesn’t work. Eventually it fails or wed have evolved to all look like Andre the Giant by now.

    Everyone always just thinks about a five minute interaction between a bigger and smaller caveman, but there’s more that goes into evolution and successfully passing on genes long term than winning a 2 minute fist fight.





  • No it wasn’t…

    America was “founded” because the people who got rich early from none forcement of smuggling didn’t want to just stand by while the English government started to finally collect on due taxes.

    It’s fucking crazy people still believe the shit we learned in elementary school.

    It was “new money” revolting against “old money” and they only won because the French royal family wouldn’t too piss off the English royal so much it cost them their heads.