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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • For real. I buy a ticket occasionally just because it’s fun to think about what I’d do with the money for the few days before the draw. Worth the $2 in entertainment value. I’ll occasionally win $10 or something, which is a bonus. I fail to see the issue with people spending an inconsequential amount of money for funsies.

    It’s the people who spend hundreds on lottery tickets that are the problem. Even then, people with gambling problems aren’t idiots, they’re desperate people who are being taken advantage of by the gaming industry.



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    9 months ago

    That’s not how our parliament works. The amount of people calling for an end to the speaker’s independence is concerning.

    The speaker’s job is to uphold decorum of parliament. This one spectacularly failed to do that, and resigned as he should. That doesn’t mean we should make it a partisan position.









  • I’ve never used TweetDeck but there is the Control Panel for Twitter, which makes it usable. It can auto-block all the bluechecks with under a million followers, hide the “For You” tab, block ads, and restore the old Twitter branding.

    Unfortunately the main reason I use Twitter is not the platform itself, but the public figures that are on it. Mastodon (mostly) doesn’t have that, though there is a trickle of some coming over.