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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Gen Alpha started it, but Xers, millennials and even boomers are trying so hard to capitalize on it. We had a parade in town a week and change ago and there number of city council members and other people with political clout that kept saying it and making the jiggle hands motion was cringeworthy. Local car dealerships are offering oil changes for $67.67 to capitalize on the brain rot. I’ve seen several other “deals” where pricing when from 5.99 to 6.67. There is nothing a capitalist won’t try to take advantage of, no matter how little they understand it.



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    Cotton Lane: because this used to be cotton fields, one of the major agriculture crops of Arizona

    Prison: because when this prison was built, it was like 25 miles west of town, now it’s continuous city well past this point

    Surprise: a western suburb of Phoenix

    Zoo: wildlife world zoo, a private zoo with too small cages and little in the way of habitat for the animals.

    Trailers: because the Phoenix area is a trailer park that somehow grew up into a city.









  • In programming you declare variables. To keep it simple let’s say there are only 2 types, numbers and words.

    Now 1 is obviously a number, and ‘word’ is obviously a word. If I ask you to divide 100 by ‘word’ you’d have to tell me that’s not possible.

    Now what if a say divide 100 by the “word” ‘10’? Well I’m a strongly typed programming language, you’d have to tell me “well, because you defined it with the single quotes, that’s actually a word so you can’t do math on it.” In a loosely typed language you’d be like “yeah I get that ‘10’ meant the number 10 so I’ll do the math.

    This creates amusing weirdness in loosely typed languages, especially when they use math operators to represent word actions. For instance JavaScript is infamously loosely typed and uses the + sign to join words together so if I say ‘Java’ + ‘Script’, I get back ‘JavaScript’. So all the following are true in JavaScript:

    1+1=2 1-1=0 ‘1’+1=11 because the ‘1’ makes it think you want to join words and it converts the second number 1 to a word ‘11’-1=10 because there’s no word operation applied to the minus sign, so it converted the word ‘11’ to a number

    There’s lots of other tomfoolery, but I’m trying to keep the explanation simple. But any mixing of words and numbers in a strongly typed language would just give you an error.

    I’m with the top reply of this thread, you don’t need strong typing if you understand what the code does.








  • My brother was murdered for stealing cash and drugs from a drug dealer. It was in the 2010’s and totaled about $1000. So maybe a little more than this even factoring for inflation. The killer got off due to some complications with the PA and two very partial juror. 11/12 guilty votes in 2 trials, and both times one guy who refused to vote guilty based on the race of the killer and the race of my brother.

    I put this out there because this case hits very close to home. No one in my family ever even hoped for the death penalty. There is no reason to eye-for-an-eye here. Even if cruelty is the point, it’s crueler to make them miss the rest of their potential life. For me, there is always the possibility it’s the wrong guy, and if so, they should have no limit on how long they spend trying to prove their innocence.

    There is no place for the death penalty in today’s world.