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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Anecdotal experience here as well, but in the US with public restrooms, the men’s room is generally much cleaner looking than the women’s room. I’m not going to say that is the actual case. It probably isn’t. I will say that every guy in the US seems to act as though the guy that went in before him used his dick like a firehose to strategically cover every single surface in that room with urine. Damn near nothing gets touched, and I could clean a men’s room in less than 10 minutes no matter what happened in there, unless it got utterly destroyed with puke or other biohazards.

    The women’s room routinely looks like an exorcism just happened in there. I don’t know what’s going on in there, but there’s toilet paper covering EVERY SINGLE surface of that room, there’s mysterious multicolored liquids on the floor. There’s occasionally what appears to be an extremely bloody mouse. It’s not a mouse.

    The long and short of this is that in my experience a public restroom is the IRL version of Minesweeper. Good luck out there.






  • I’ve never started a food company, but I have helped to write several restaurants origin stories. While the teams I was on never outright lied, we certainly embellished certain parts and didn’t discuss others.

    For instance, one “mom and pop” restaurant that we opened had the backstory that, “John XXXX came from China in 1984, and tried pizza for the first time in the US. He loved it so much that he taught himself how to make pizza dough to open a Chinese Pizzaria.”

    All of that is technically mostly true except for him trying pizza for the first time in the US. In his words China doesn’t have real pizza, and the US did/does it correctly. I helped him learn to make pizza dough, but I don’t think that actually matters. What we left out is that John owns a ton of very valuable property in China, so he wasn’t trying to get rich, he was just having fun.












  • Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics.

    Taxes are an anti-inflationary measure that are implemented at the end of the federal governmental fiscal year. Where they get implemented is where politics comes in, but taxes are just money that is collected and deleted. We literally used to burn the collected currency, but since most of our currency these days is digital, we just zero out a line in the federal government’s accounting ledger.

    Taxes never have, never will, and never can pay for anything when talking about a sovereign currency. That’s a conservative zero sum lie that people that don’t understand economics fall for.